Kirthevasan (Kirthi) Kandasamy
About
Kirthevasan Kandasamy is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working on topics in machine learning. He is also affiliated with the Department of Statistics. He is a recepient of an NSF CAREER Award (2025). His research interests are in the intersection of machine learning and game theory. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the RISE Lab at the University of California, Berkeley working with Ion Stoica, Mike Jordan, and Joey Gonzalez. He completed his PhD in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was co-advised by Jeff Schneider and Barnabas Poczos. His PhD was supported by a Facebook fellowship (2017/18), a Siebel scholarship (2017/18), and a CMU Presidential fellowship (2015/16). Prior to CMU, he completed his B.Sc in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Latent Beta Topographic Mapping
Year: 2012
Citations: 0
Venue: 2012 IEEE 24th International Conference on Tools with Artificial
Latest Recorded Paper
Learning from Biased and Costly Data Sources: Minimax-optimal Data Collection under a Budget
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.17894
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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