Sarath Shekkizhar is a Ph.D. student in Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. Originally from Tamil Nadu, India, Sarath completed his B.Tech from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli in 2012 and his M.S from USC in 2013. He worked at KLA Tencor's Wafer Inspection Division as a software engineer before joining Professor Antonio Ortega's research group in 2017. His current research interests include graph learning and non-parametric, statistical methods for machine learning.

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