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Academic Background: Devavrat Shah earned his PhD in computer science from Stanford University.
Research Interests: Large-scale machine learning, statistical inference, and social data analysis.
Appointments: Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Faculty Director of the MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science program; Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT.
Awards: Information not publicly available.
Publications: Published extensively on machine learning algorithms and statistical inference. Co-founder of Celect, Inc., acquired by Nike in 2019.
Editorial Contributions: Information not publicly available.