Purnamrita (Purna) Sarkar

Purnamrita (Purna) Sarkar is an associate professor of Statistics and Data Science. Previously, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, jointly in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the Department of Statistics. She works on in the intersection of high dimensional statistics, machine learning theory, differential privacy and large scale optimization. Along with investigators across campus, Sarkar co-leads the NSF TRIPODS (Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science) Phase II grant, which UT Austin is a part of.