Kanan Gupta

I am a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh. My advisor is Dr. Stephan Wojtowytsch. My research interests lie broadly in the mathematics of machine learning. Specifically, I have been focusing on optimization algorithms for machine learning.

I started my PhD at Texas A&M University in January 2021 before moving to Pitt with my advisor. Before Texas A&M, I was at Ashoka University where I completed my undergraduate studies with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science. Afterwards, I did a year-long postgraduate diploma in research at Ashoka University, for which I wrote an expository thesis on K-Theory and C*-Algebras. You can find more information on my background in my CV.

Outside of mathematics, I am interested in Urdu poetry (also known as Hindi poetry). I am always keen to discuss poets or read some ghazals or nazms. Feel free to get in touch if you’d like to chat about some Hindi-Urdu poetry.