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Caltech honors Venkat Chandrasekaran with named professorship
The honor gives faculty resources to advance research and mentor students.
Venkat Chandrasekaran, Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering / Image - Caltech
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has recognized Venkat Chandrasekaran with the distinguished title of Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering.
The Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professorship is one of the highest honors Caltech bestows. The honor is part of Caltech’s initiative to acknowledge outstanding faculty members for the 2023–24 academic year.
Chandrasekaran, an applied mathematician, has been part of the Caltech faculty since 2012. His research focuses on optimization and information sciences, with significant contributions in developing effective methods for data analysis.
His group has pioneered tractable algorithms for inverse problems and latent variable modeling, explored trade-offs between computational and statistical efficiency, and introduced dimension-free optimization techniques. These methodologies have been applied to diverse areas such as water resources modeling, super-resolution imaging, dynamical systems analysis, network inference, and engineering design.
Named professorships at Caltech provide faculty with additional resources to advance innovative research ideas while continuing to mentor and train future generations. They also enable faculty to build meaningful connections with the philanthropists who fund these awards.
“Each named professorship brings its own legacy. Many professorships, for instance, have long-standing histories and pass a tradition of discovery and exploration from one academic generation to the next, from one colleague to another,” the institute said in a statement.
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