Sitan Chen

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Harvard University

  • Joined January 2019

Names

Sitan Chen (Preferred)

Emails

****@mit.edu (Confirmed)
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****@seas.harvard.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor
Computer Science, Harvard University (seas.harvard.edu)
2023 – Present
 
Postdoc
EECS, University of California Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
2021 – 2023
 
PhD student
EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
2016 – 2021
 
MS student
Harvard University (harvard.edu)
2015 – 2016
 
Undergrad student
Harvard University (harvard.edu)
2012 – 2016
 

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisee
2024 – Present
 
Coauthor
2023 – Present
 
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2023 – Present
 
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2020 – Present
 
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2020 – Present
 
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2020 – Present
 
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2019 – Present
 
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2019 – Present
 
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2019 – Present
 
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2018 – Present
 
PhD Advisor
2016 – 2021
 
Postdoc Advisor
Prasad Raghavendra
2018 – 2019
 
Coauthor
2015 – 2016
 
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2014 – 2016
 

Expertise

semidefinite programming, sum-of-squares, extension complexity
2018 – 2019
 
approximate counting and sampling, Markov chains, statistical physics
2017 – 2019
 
computational learning theory
2016 – 2019