Anuran Makur

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Purdue University

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science (CS) and the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Purdue University. Previously, I completed my Sc.D. and postdoc from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in theoretical aspects of computer science and electrical engineering. In particular, my research interests are in:

  • Information Theory
    1. information inequalities and contraction
    2. permutation channels and networks
    3. information theoretic methods for learning

  • Theory of Machine Learning
    1. ranking and preference learning
    2. optimization for machine learning
    3. non-parametric and high-dimensional inference

  • Applied Probability
    1. broadcasting on graphs
    2. interacting particle systems
    3. reliable computation using noisy circuits