Joan Bruna is a Full Professor of Computer Science, Data Science and Mathematics (affiliated), at the Courant Institute and the Center of Data Science, New York University (NYU). He is also a visiting Scholar at the Flatiron Institute (part of the Simons Foundation), at the Center for Computational Mathematics. His research interests focus on the mathematical foundations of Machine Learning, as well as their applications to problems in computational science. For his research contributions, he has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF Career award, and several best paper awards.