About Me (Suvrit Sra)
Starting from beautiful Shimla, I lived in a variety of cities across three different continents. After following a somewhat non-linear path in academia, I decided to move to MIT and start anew.
Before 2015
A new chapter begins, actually, a new start of my research life. I join LIDS as a Principal Research Scientist and PI, and start building my research group on Optimization for Machine Learning, and help build the Machine Learning Group.
Jan 2015
Three years later, after discovering several algorithms, theorems, and new directions with my amazing students and collaborators (≈ 40 new papers), I accept a tenure track faculty position in the EECS department at MIT. I remain a LIDS PI and also join IDSS as a core member.
Jan 2018
Machine learning, optimization, differential geometry, matrix theory, nonconvexity, discrete probability, combinatorics, metric spaces, healthcare-AI, ML in Synthetic Biology, ...
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