Maya Burhanpurkar

Biography

Maya graduated from Harvard with Highest Honours in Physics and was inducted into the national Phi Beta Kappa honour society. Her academic interests include algorithmic fairness, privacy, and machine learning. Her recent work spans biologically-inspired techniques for enhancing neural network adversarial robustness, statistical methods for detecting topological phase transitions in materials, and deep convolutional neural networks for understanding dark matter. She has several publications in machine learning, self-driving software, and cosmology including two in Nature. Maya received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal, Canada’s Top 20 Under 20 award, the MIT-Lemelson Prize, the Harvard i3 Innovation Challenge Gold Prize, and the John Harvard scholarship. She produced a climate change documentary with Margaret Atwood and Chris Hadfield and was President of Harvard’s Society for Physics Students.