Biography

Juan Carlos Perdomo is an assistant professor of computer science and data science at NYU. His research focuses on the foundations of machine learning systems that make predictions or decisions about people. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and his B.A. in CS and Math from Harvard. Before NYU, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and MIT.

He is from San Juan, Puerto Rico where he was on the national sailing team. He won youth world championships at the under-17, 19, and 21 levels and represented Puerto Rico at the 2014 Central American Games and the 2015 Pan American Games. He also worked on the design team during Emirates Team New Zealand's winning campaign for the 35th America's Cup in Bermuda.