Gautam Kamath
Assistant Prof of CS at the University of Waterloo, Faculty and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute. Joining NYU Courant in September 2026. Co-EiC of TMLR. My group is The Salon. Privacy, robustness, machine learning.
http://www.gautamkamath.com
- Never ask a question that you don't want to know the answer to.
- Do you have recent work on differential privacy? Submit it to TPDP 2026 in Boston, whose deadline is in ~2 weeks. TPDP is a lightly reviewed workshop, whose main purpose is getting researchers in DP together in one place. Dual submissions allowed (and encouraged!).
- Website here: tpdp.journalprivacyconfidentiality.org/2026/
- I'll be honest, while I really enjoyed #NeurIPS2025, the sheer scale made it hard to get a ton of scientific value out of it. Looking forward to attending more small and intimate events like #ALT2026 and #FORC2026, where one can engage deeply with the pertinent communities.
- Did you just miss punching your ticket to Rio or Salt Lake City? Wanna go to a conference where people will engage with you and your paper on foundations of responsible computing, and you won't get lost in the crowd? Submit to #FORC2026, in Boston in June! Deadline in 2 weeks.
- Pro-tip: if you want to work with someone as your PhD advisor, make sure to spell their name right. Two PhD applications spelled my name Gautham, and once Guatam. I missed all of them because the system filters for an exact match.
