Boaz Barak

Bio: Boaz Barak is the Gordon McKay professor of Computer Science at Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Previously, he was a principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and before that an associate professor (with tenure) at Princeton University. Barak’s research interests include theoretical computer science and the foundations of machine learning. Barak has won numerous awards and fellowships, including the ACM dissertation award, Foreign Policy magazine’s list of 100 leading global thinkers, Packard fellowship, and Sloan fellowship. He was also chosen to be a Simons investigator and a fellow of the ACM. Barak is a member of the scientific advisory boards for Quanta Magazine and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. He is also a board member of AddisCoder, a non-profit organization for teaching algorithms and coding to high-school students in Ethiopia and Jamaica. Barak wrote with Sanjeev Arora the textbook “Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach”.