Kirthevasan Kandasamy is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working on topics in machine learning. He is also affiliated with the Department of Statistics. He is a recepient of an NSF CAREER Award (2025). His research interests are in the intersection of machine learning and game theory.

He was a postdoctoral scholar at the RISE Lab at the University of California, Berkeley working with Ion Stoica, Mike Jordan, and Joey Gonzalez. He completed his PhD in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was co-advised by Jeff Schneider and Barnabas Poczos. His PhD was supported by a Facebook fellowship (2017/18), a Siebel scholarship (2017/18), and a CMU Presidential fellowship (2015/16). Prior to CMU, he completed his B.Sc in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

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Miscellaneous

In my free time, I enjoy cooking and reading. Since moving to Madison, I've also taken up cycling, though I am still a long way from challenging Tadej Pogačar.

I am from Sri Lanka. Here is a nice video about Sri Lanka.