- Applications of Nearest Neighbors in Twitter, Bitcoin, Medical Imaging, etc.
- Robust Synthetic Control
- Sparse Matrix Estimation and Iterative Collaborative Filtering
- Data Center Scheduling: Theory and Practice (e.g., Fastpass, Flowtunes)
- Blind Regression and Collaborative Filtering
- Graphical Model Learning, Recommendation Systems, Rumor Source Detection, Ranking and Permutation Modeling
- Crowd-Sourcing algorithms, Discrete Choice from Limited Data, Gossip Algorithms, Belief Propagation and Inference
- Wireless Medium Access, Distributed Scheduling, Network Information Theory, Switch Scheduling
Research Experience
Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor, Department of EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Member of MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS), Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), and Statistics and Data Science Center
Principal Investigator, MIT Institute for Foundations of Data Science
Adjunct Professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (2018–2024)
Distinguished Professor, Mehta School of Data Science and AI, IIT Guwahati