Barna Saha
Scholar

Barna Saha

Google Scholar ID: BsmjRdoAAAAJ
Harry E. Gruber Endowed Chair Professor, University of California San Diego
AlgorithmsProbabilistic MethodsData Management
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,942
 
H-index
24
 
i10-index
50
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
38
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Young Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), 2020.
  • Kavli Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences, 2020.
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2019.
  • Sloan Fellowship, 2019.
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2017.
  • NSF CRII Award, 2015.
  • Google Faculty Research Award, 2016.
  • Yahoo Academic Enhancement Award, 2015.
  • Simons Berkeley Research Fellow, 2015.
  • Published numerous papers in top-tier venues including SODA, NeurIPS, ICML, FOCS, and STOC; some works received oral presentations (e.g., ICML 2024, 1.5% acceptance rate).
Research Experience
  • Currently The Harry E. Gruber Endowed Chair Professor of Computer Science and Information Technologies at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), affiliated with the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute.
  • Director of the National NSF TRIPODS Institute for Emerging CORE Methods in Data Science (EnCORE).
  • Previously a tenured Associate Professor at the University of California Berkeley.
  • Earlier served on the Computer Science faculty at UMass Amherst.
  • Former Senior Research Scientist at the AT&T Shannon Research Laboratory.
  • Affiliate faculty at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley.