Rik Sarkar

Brief Bio. I am a Lecturer and a Chancellor's Fellow in Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. My PhD was from Stony Brook University, USA, in 2010, and M.Tech was from IIT Bombay in 2005. I was a researcher jointly at Technical, Freie and Humbolt Univeristies of Berlin from 2010 to 2012, with the MDS Fellowship from the German Science Foundation.

Research Interests

• Machine learning: algorithms, representation learning.
• Statistical privacy: privacy preserving learning.
• Data mining, Network Analysis.
• Data science for autonomous vehicles.
• Computational Geometry, topology, and trajectory analysis.
• Distributed computing: IoT, sensors, and edge computing.

• Postdoc position in datascience and machine learning for mobility analysis.