Sitan Chen
Assistant Professor of Computer Science,
Harvard University
Sitan Chen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, where he is a member of the Theory of Computation, the ML Foundations group, and the Harvard Quantum Initiative. Previously, he was an NSF math postdoc at UC Berkeley, after completing his PhD in EECS at MIT in 2021. He is broadly interested in algorithmic questions about learning from data, most recently related to the science and theory of localization-based generative modeling, and the design of quantum protocols for learning about the physical universe. His work has been recognized with an NSF CAREER award, an ICML Outstanding Paper Award, and the Harvard Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship.