Michael KEARNS

Michael Kearns, a professor in the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds the National Center Chair, joined the company as an Amazon Scholar in June 2020. Kearns joined the Penn faculty in 2002. He also holds secondary appointments in the Economics department, as well as the departments of Statistics, and Operations, Information and Decisions (OID) within Penn’s Wharton School of Business.Kearns is the founding director of the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, and the faculty founder and former director of Penn Engineering’s Networked and Social Systems Engineering program. He’s also a faculty affiliate in Penn’s Applied Math and Computational Science graduate program, and until July 2006 was the co-director of Penn’s interdisciplinary Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. In August 2018, Kearns became an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute.Kearns is a leading researcher in machine learning, algorithmic game theory, algorithmic trading and related topics. He also has interests in computational social science, and differential privacy.