Michael Kearns — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Professor at University of Pennsylvania, holding the National Center Chair and secondary appointments in the Wharton School and Department of Economics.
Amazon Scholar at Amazon Web Services (AWS) since 2020.
Leading researcher in computational learning theory and algorithmic game theory.
Author of 'The Computational Complexity of Machine Learning' (1990), published by MIT Press as part of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Series.
Previously served as Senior Advisor for Machine Learning and AI at Morgan Stanley (2018-2020) and Chief Scientist at MANA Partners LLC (2016-2018).
Holds a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University (1989) and an A.B. in Mathematics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley (1985).

Biography

Michael Justin Kearns is an American computer scientist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds the National Center Chair. His appointment is split across the Department of Computer and Information Science, and Statistics and Operations and Information Management in the Wharton School. He is the founding director of Penn's Singh Program in Networked & Social Systems Engineering (NETS) and the founding director of the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences.