Daniel M. Kane

Department Address:

9500 Gilman Drive #0404
La Jolla, CA 92093-0404

Office Locations:

CSE 4212 Phone: (858) 246-0102

AP&M 7131 Phone: (858) 534-2125

I am a professor at UCSD with a joint appointment between CSE and Mathematics. My username is dakane and you can reach me at this username at @ucsd.edu, or @math.ucsd.edu. I also have a gmail account with username ALadKeenIn.

Teaching

This academic year I am teaching:
Fall 2026: Math 96 (Putnam Seminar)
Fall 2025: Math 184 (Combinatorics)
Winter 2027: CSE 101 (Introduction to Algorithms)
Spring 2027: Math 204C (Analytic Number Theory)

Research

I have broad research interests within mathematics and theoretical computer science. While my research covers a wide range of topics my mathematics work tends to be within the broad areas of number theory and combinatorics, while my computer science research tends to be about derandomization, Boolean functions (with particular emphasis on polynomial threshold functions), or machine learning. For the past few years, the bulk of my research has been in computational statistics. In particular, I have a recent book on robust statistics with Ilias Diakonikolas published by Cambridge University Press.

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