{"643085":{"#nid":"643085","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Welcomes Assistant Professor Vidya Muthukumar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor Vidya Muthukumar joined ISyE in\u0026nbsp;January\u0026nbsp;2021. She also holds a joint appointment with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she spent Fall 2020 at the Simons Institute as a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellow for the program on Theory of Reinforcement Learning. Muthukumar received her Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer research interests are in game theory and online and statistical learning. She is particularly interested in designing learning algorithms that provably adapt in strategic environments; fundamental properties of overparameterized models; and fairness, accountability, and transparency in machine learning. Her honors include the Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship, IBM Research Science for Social Good Fellowship, the SanDisk Fellowship, and the UC Berkeley EECS Outstanding Course Development and Teaching Award. She served as the co-president of UC Berkeley Women in Computer Science and Engineering in 2017. Muthukumar serves on the senior program committee for COLT 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Her research interests are in game theory and online and statistical learning."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHer research interests are in game theory and online and statistical learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Her research interests are in game theory and online and statistical learning."}],"uid":"34760","created_gmt":"2021-01-19 19:36:16","changed_gmt":"2021-01-19 19:39:05","author":"Laurie Haigh","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"643086":{"id":"643086","type":"image","title":"Assistant Professor Vidya Muthukumar","body":null,"created":"1611085098","gmt_created":"2021-01-19 19:38:18","changed":"1611085098","gmt_changed":"2021-01-19 19:38:18","alt":"Vidya Muthukumar","file":{"fid":"244189","name":"Muthukumar-square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Muthukumar-square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Muthukumar-square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":98949,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Muthukumar-square.jpg?itok=nUqMpbiK"}}},"media_ids":["643086"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"186736","name":"Vidya Muthukumar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laurie.haigh@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELaurie Haigh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}