Gautam Kamath Receives 2026 Presburger Award

April 27, 2026

Gautam Kamath, who will be joining our computer science faculty in the upcoming fall semester, has received the 2026 Presburger Award from the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. The EATCS announced today that Professor Kamath would be recognized for his exceptional contributions to theoretical computer science, notably his pioneering work on computationally efficient algorithms for fundamental estimation tasks under robustness constraints. 

The Presburger Award—named in honor of the Polish mathematician Mojżesz Presburger—is awarded annually to "a young scientist for outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science, documented by a published paper or a series of published papers." Professor Kamath is a highly-cited researcher who won a best paper award at the 41st International Conference of Machine Learning.

He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, as well as a Faculty Member at the Vector Institute and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Professor Kamath’s research interests are in trustworthy algorithms, statistics, and machine learning, particularly focusing on considerations like data privacy and robustness. He received his B.S. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Kamath leads The Salon, a research group which studies Statistics, Algorithms, Learning, and Optimization. The group will be based in New York University’s Computer Science Department from Fall 2026.