#  Prof. Boaz Barak 

Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science

 

 

 



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 I am a professor of [Computer Science](https://www.seas.harvard.edu/computer-science) at Harvard University, and a member of the Harvard SEAS [Theory of Computing group](https://toc.seas.harvard.edu/). Previously, I was a principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and before that I was an associate professor (with tenure) at Princeton University’s Computer Science department. I hold a Ph.D from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

 I am a theoretical computer scientist, interested in computational complexity, algorithms, cryptography, quantum computing and [foundations of machine learning](https://mlfoundations.org/).