#  Neekon Vafa 

 

 



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 email <nvafa@fas.harvard.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [Personal website](https://neekonvafa.com) 

 

Theoretical Computer Science

A.B. Harvard University

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 



 

Neekon Vafa is a theoretical computer scientist broadly interested in cryptography and its connections to trustworthy machine learning and statistics. He received a PhD in mathematics from MIT. Before MIT, he was a software engineer at Google (YouTube). Prior to that, he received an AB in mathematics from Harvard University.



 

 

 





 

 

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