Adel Javanmard

Associate Professor of Data Sciences and Operations and Computer Science

Education

2014, Doctoral Degree, Stanford University

Biography

Adel Javanmard is an Associate Professor in the department of Data Sciences and Operation, Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, where he also holds a courtesy appointment with the computer science department. Prior to joining USC in 2015, he was a NSF postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Science of Information, with worksite at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. He completed his PhD at Stanford University in 2014. His research interests are broadly in the area of high-dimensional statistics, machine learning, optimization, and personalized decision-making. Adel is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics, the IMS Tweedie Researcher award, the NSF CAREER award, Adobe Faculty Research award, Google Faculty Research award, the Thomas Cover dissertation award from the IEEE Society, Douglas Basil Award for Junior Business Faculty, the Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation award, and the NSF CSoI Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Research Summary

Professor Javanmard is broadly interested in design and analysis of statistical methods for large-scale data, high-dimensional inference, network analysis, non-convex optimization and personalized decision-making.

Awards

2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics
2020 Adobe Data Science Faculty Research Award
2020 IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award
2019 The NSF CAREER Award, DMS Statistics
2018 ‘‘Outlier Research in Business” grant, USC Marshall
2018 The Dr. Douglas Basil Award for Junior Business Faculty
2017 USC James H. Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund Zumberge Individual Award
2016 Google Faculty Research Award
2015 IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
2015 Center for Science of Information (CSoI) NSF Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2012 The IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Student Paper Award Finalist
2011 The IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Student Paper Award Finalist
2010 Stanford Graduate Fellowship
2009 Stanford Electrical Engineering Fellowship
2004 Silver Medal Recipient in the 45th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), Greece
2003 Gold Medal Recipient in National Mathematical Olympiad
2002 Bronze Medal Recipient in National Mathematical Olympiad

Appointments

Data Sciences and Operations

Office

3670 TROUSDALE PARKWAY Bldg. #8
USC Mail Code: 0809

Contact Information

ajavanma@usc.edu

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