Achuta Kadambi, Ph.D.

Achuta Kadambi (PhD, MIT ‘18) is an Associate Professor at UCLA in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He leads an interdisciplinary research group that focuses on AI, and recruits PhD students from the EE, CS, and Bioengineering Departments. He is the recipient of early career awards including from NSF (CAREER), DARPA (YFA), ARO (YIP), IEEE (HKN under 35 award), and Forbes (30 under 30). He has co-founded two California companies to commercialize research technologies. Kadambi has filed over 70 patents, 30+ of which have been issued to date and has co-authored a textbook, Computational Imaging (MIT Press, 2022).