Scholar
Sitan Chen
Google Scholar ID: YnJVsp4AAAAJ
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,972
H-index
25
i10-index
42
Publications
20
Co-authors
65
list available
Publications
Cited
0
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- NSF CAREER Award CCF-2441635
- NSF Small Grant (joint with Anurag Anshu) CCF-2430375
- NSF SLES Grant (joint with Boaz Barak and Sham Kakade) IIS-2331831
- Harvard Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship
- Authored recent manuscripts including 'Quantum Probe Tomography', 'Fine-Tuning Masked Diffusion for Provable Self-Correction', 'Selective Underfitting in Diffusion Models', etc.
- Mentored students awarded Hoopes Prize, Fay Prize, CRA Finalist, NSF GRFP, NDSEG, PD Soros Fellowship, Von Neumann Fellowship
Background
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Member of the Theory of Computation group, ML Foundations group, and Harvard Quantum Initiative
- Broadly interested in algorithmic questions about learning from data
- Recent focus on the science and theory of localization-based generative modeling (e.g., diffusions, masked language models, autoregressive models)
- Designing quantum protocols for learning about the physical universe
