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Praneeth Karimireddy

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Education

  • Doctoral Degree, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  • Master's Degree, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi
  • Bachelor's Degree, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi

Biography

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy is an Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at USC. Before this, he was a postdoc at UC Berkeley with Michael Jordan and did his PhD among the picturesque mountains of EPFL with Martin Jaggi. He also co-leads the Data Quality and Federated Learning for Health working group with Doctors Without Borders, the Cancer Registry of Norway) and by industries such as Meta, Google, Owkin, and OpenAI. It has also been recognized by numerous awards such as the Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize for the best thesis in computer science, the Chorafas Foundation Award for exceptional applied research, and multiple best paper awards.

Research Summary

My research studies data challenges in machine learning. Data is the most important factor determining the quality of an ML system. However, we understand very little about what makes data good or bad. Further, the most valuable data (e.g. health records) are either extremely expensive to collect and inaccesible. I use theory from optimizationstatistics, and economics to answer these issues and build data infrastructure. Topics I am currently thinking about:


Awards

  • 2022 SNSF Mobility Fellowship
  • 2022 Patrick Denantes Memorial Trust Patrick Denantes Memorial Best Thesis Prize
  • 2022 EPFL Thesis Distinction Award
  • 2021 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Chorafas Foundation Prize
Appointments
  • Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Office
  • SAL 327
  • Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center
  • 941 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Contact Information
  • karimire@usc.edu
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