Adam Tauman Kalai is an American
computer scientist who specializes in
Machine Learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence.
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and works as a Senior Principal Researcher at
Microsoft Research New England.
Education and career
Kalai graduated from
Harvard University
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in 1996 and received a PhD from
Carnegie Mellon University in 2001, where he worked under doctoral advisor
Avrim Blum. He did his postdoctoral study at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
before becoming a faculty member at the
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC or TTI-Chicago) is a private graduate college and research institute focused on computer science and located in Chicago, Illinois within the University of Chicago campus. It is supported by the ear ...
and then the
Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined Microsoft Research in 2008.
Contributions
Kalai is known for his algorithm for generating random factored numbers (see
Bach's algorithm), for efficiently learning
learning mixtures of Gaussians, for the Blum-Kalai-Wasserman algorithm for
learning parity with noise, and for the intractability of the
folk theorem in game theory.
More recently, Kalai is known for identifying and reducing gender bias in
word embedding
In natural language processing (NLP), word embedding is a term used for the representation of words for text analysis, typically in the form of a real-valued vector that encodes the meaning of the word such that the words that are closer in the v ...
s, which are a representation of words commonly used in AI systems.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Georgia Tech faculty
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Harvard University alumni