NISHEETH K. VISHNOI
AFFILIATIONS
CURRENT A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science, Yale
ADJUNCT IIT Goa IIT Kanpur
PAST IIT Bombay Georgia Tech IBM Research UC Berkeley
CNRS Microsoft Research Simons Inst. EPFL IIT Delhi
ICTS Bangalore
At Yale, I co-founded the Computation and Society Initiative.
RESEARCH
My research spans foundations of computer science, machine learning, and optimization: from approximability of NP-hard problems, to combinatorial, convex and non-convex optimization and sampling, to min-max optimization, to tackling algorithmic questions involving dynamical systems, stochastic processes and manifolds.
OPEN POSITIONS
Several open positions Ph.D./Postdoc positions in theoretical computer science, machine learning, optimization, and algorithmic fairness are available. Please get in touch directly if you would be interested.
PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH ON ALGORITHMIC BIAS BOOKS and SURVEYS Algorithms for Convex Optimization BLOGS Algorithms, Nature, and Society RECENT SERVICE and HONORS PC Chair, FOCS 2021 Co-organizer of Simons Semester on Geometric Methods for Optimization and Sampling, Fall 2021 PC of India Science Festival, 2020-2021 Elected Fellow of ACM, 2019 Best Technical Paper Award at ACM FAT*, 2019 MEDIA and OUTREACH Times of India interview on AI and bias. PBS Nova article on our work on reducing polarization Panelist in ICRC/IIT Delhi Initiative on Humanitarian Policy and Technology, 2019 Round Table on the Governance of Decision Making Algorithms, IRGC, 2018 Round Table on AI and Global Health at Wilton Park, 2018 Our voting framework to be used in Valais elections, 2018 Panelist in the Responsible Finance and Investment Summit, 2018 Philanthropy Impact Roundtable on AI, 2018 A demo of our algorithms to control bias in AI (work in progress) On our work on controlling polarization [video] On our algorithms to control bias An interview on Artificial Intelligence An interview on Algorithmic Bias A journalist's report of the workshop Computation, Science and Society that I co-organized CONTACT EMAIL nisheeth (dot) vishnoi (@) gmail (dot) com TWITTER Follow @NisheethVishnoi
At Yale, I am affiliated to the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and the Thurman Arnold Project at the Yale School of Management.
I am co-PI and the Foundations co-lead of an NSF funded AI Institute: The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale
I am also broadly interested in understanding and addressing some of the key questions that arise in nature and society from a computational viewpoint.
Here, my current focus includes studying entropy, the emergence of intelligent behavior, and ethical issues such as bias and privacy that arise at the interface of artificial intelligence and society.
My Curriculum Vitae
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Optimization, Sampling, Lie Theory
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Geodesic Convex Optimization
Faster Algorithms via Approximation Theory
Real Stable Polynomials and their Applications to TCS
Evolution