Venkat Chandrasekaran

Email: alpha@beta.edu, alpha = venkatc, beta = caltech

Research

• Optimization -- convex optimization; algebraic methods; graphs and combinatorial optimization

• Data science -- statistical inference; inverse problems; machine learning

• Applied algebra and geometry -- real algebraic geometry; convex geometry

Current and previous group members

• Eray Atay; current PhD student

• Eitan Levin; Faculty, Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago

• Kevin Shu; Faculty, Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

• Elvira Moreno; Research Scientist, Uber

• Oscar Leong; Faculty, Statistics, UCLA

• Eliza O'Reilly; Faculty, Applied Mathematics, Johns Hopkins

• Mateo Diaz; Faculty, Data Science, University of Chicago

• Riley Murray; Research Scientist, Sandia National Laboratory

• Armeen Taeb; Faculty, Statistics, University of Washington

• Utkan Candogan; Research Scientist, Uber

• Yong Sheng Soh; Faculty, Mathematics, National University of Singapore

• Quentin Berthet; Research Scientist, Google

Teaching

• Mathematical Optimization [last taught Fall 2025]

• Fundamentals of Intelligent Systems [last taught Fall 2024]

• Great Ideas in Data Science [last taught Fall 2025]

• Topics in Optimization [last taught Fall 2019]

• Statistical Inference [last taught Fall 2018]

Bio (third-person)

Contact

Phone: (626) 395-6568

Office: Annenberg 300