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Venkat Chandrasekaran is the Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He serves as the Undergraduate Option Representative for Applied and Computational Mathematics and Executive Officer for Electrical Engineering. His research focuses on optimization and the information sciences, with specific interests in convex optimization, statistical inference, inverse problems, graphs and combinatorial optimization, and applied algebra and geometry. His work explores the mathematical foundations of these areas to develop methods for applications in science and engineering.