Professor
Michael Kearns
University of Pennsylvania
Computer scientist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Computer Sciences
Elected
2012
Michael Kearns is a professor of Computer Science and National Center Chair at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the founding director of Penn's Singh Program in Networked & Social Systems Engineering (NETS) and the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences. He is a leading researcher in computational learning theory and algorithmic game theory. His work in the 1980s established connections between learning and public-key cryptography, helped develop theories of generalization for learning algorithms, and demonstrated general transformations for tolerating noise in learning algorithms. His research interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational finance, algorithmic trading, computational social science and social networks.
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