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Gautam Kamath and co-authors win the 2026 Gödel Prize for their 2016 paper on robust high-dimensional estimation

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The paper solved computational bottlenecks in robust statistical estimation.

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Hugo Larochelle@hugo_larochelle

@thegautamkamath Congratulations!!

7:11 AM · Jun 4, 2026

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Sebastien Bubeck@SebastienBubeck·50mReply
@thegautamkamath Congrats! I remember it like it's yesterday when Jerry was telling me about his new exciting result :-)
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