Noah Golowich

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UT Austin. I completed my PhD at MIT, where I was very fortunate to be advised by Constantinos Daskalakis and Ankur Moitra. In 2025-2026, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, NYC. I was a recipient of the 2025 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award, the 2025 SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the 2026 EATCS Doctoral Dissertation Award.

My research focuses broadly on the theoretical foundations of modern AI, with a particular focus on topics related to AI alignment. I am particularly interested in the role that computational constraints play in shaping our current and future toolkit of algorithms for machine learning and AI.

I co-organized the STOC 2026 workshop on The Role of Theory in Trustworthy & Interpretable AI and co-organized WALE 2026 (Workshop on Algorithms for Learning and Economics).

I am recruiting PhD students and postdocs.