Dr. Praneeth Vepakomma
Assistant Professor, Department of Machine Learning, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Praneeth Vepakomma recently submitted his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Machine Learning at Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi.
He has extensive industrial experience from his time at Meta, Apple, Amazon Web Services, Motorola Solutions, Corning and several startups. He has won the Meta PhD research fellowship in Applied Statistics and two SERC Scholarships (for Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing) from MIT's Schwarzman College of Computing. He co-founded a research based non-profit (Integrity Distributed) that won the Financial Times Digital Innovation Award.
He holds an MS in Mathematical and Applied Statistics from Rutgers University. His research focuses on developing algorithms for distributed computation in statistics & machine learning under constraints of privacy and efficiency.