Vahid Tarokh


Vahid Tarokh is the Rhodes family professor of electrical and computer engineering, Bass Connections Professor, a professor of mathematics, and computer science at Duke University.
He is also a Microsoft Data Science Investigator at Microsoft Innovation Hub at Duke University.

Life

He received the M.Sc. in Mathematics from University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 1992, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1995. He worked at AT&T Labs-Research until 2000, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
In 2002, he joined Harvard University as a Hammond Vinton Hayes Senior Fellow of Electrical Engineering and Perkins Professor of Applied Mathematics. He joined Duke University in January 2018.
His current research interests are in representation, modeling, inference and prediction from data.

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