Venkatesh Saligrama

Venkatesh Saligrama is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Data Science Faculty Fellow and founding member of the Faculty of Computing and Data Science (CDS). He is also Affiliated Professor of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at Boston University. Professor Saligrama’s research interests are in machine learning and its applications, including resource efficient machine learning (budgeted ML), learning with limited supervision, AI and society, and learning and estimation on graphs/networks.

Professor Saligrama is an IEEE fellow elected for contributions to detection and estimation theory. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Presidential Early Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, and the NSF Career Award. He has been a keynote speaker at several conferences and workshops. He was the Chair of the Big Data Special Interest Group for the IEEE SPS Society. He has served as area chair for several machine learning conferences such as ICML, COLT and NueRIPS, and as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He has also edited special issues and books on networked sensing, detection and estimation.