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"I am a professor of Computer Science at Harvard University."
"As a member of the technical staff at OpenAI."
"I was a principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England."
"I was an associate professor at Princeton University’s Computer Science department."
"I hold a Ph.D from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton."
"Starting in the Fall of 2025 I will be part time at Harvard as a Catalyst Professor and part time at OpenAI."
"I am a theoretical computer scientist, and have worked on computational complexity, algorithms, cryptography, quantum computing."
"In recent years my focus has been onfoundations of machine learning and safety of artificial intelligence systems."
"Member of the editorial board of the Theory of Computing Journal (ToC) and the Electronic Colloquium of Computational Complexity."
"I am a member of the scientific board of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing."
"I am a co organizer of the Harvard Machine Learning Foundations seminar and a steering committee member and associate faculty of the Kempner Institute, for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence."
"Board member and co organizer of Addis Coder as well as Jam Coders."
"I am also a member of the advisory board of the wonderful Quanta magazine. See my CV for past activities."
"I was on the steps of Harvard’s Widener Library, taking part in a vigil for the victims of Hamas’s terrorist attack."
"I’m an Israeli American tenured professor, and I felt it was my duty to stand up for Jewish and Israeli students."
"I helped organize an open letter denouncing antisemitism."
"I am a member of Harvard’s Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias."
"I have written numerous blog posts and opinion articles on this matter."
"I have not discussed these issues at all."
"I am a professor of computer science, and students take my courses to learn the fundamental capabilities and limitations of computing devices."
"Students in my class have been on both sides of the campus divide."
"Two of them asked for more leniency in academic assignments because of their involvement in campus activism, one with a Jewish and the other with a Muslim one."
"I refused them both."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.