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Venkat Chandrasekaran is a professor in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology. He is an applied mathematician whose research interests broadly encompass optimization and information sciences. His specific areas of focus include convex optimization, statistical inference, inverse problems, graphs, combinatorial optimization, and applied algebraic geometry. Through his research group, he studies the mathematical foundations of these topics and develops principled methods for their applications in science and engineering. Chandrasekaran teaches a variety of courses that explore these themes, including Mathematical Optimization and Great Ideas in Data Science.
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