Adel Javanmard

Adel Javanmard is a Professor 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. He holds the Dean's professor chair title and also serves as an Executive member on the Outline Research in Business (iORB). 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 2026 Frontiers in Science Award, 2025 Google Research Tech Impact Award, Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics, IMS Tweedie Researcher award, NSF CAREER award, USC Dean's award for Research Excellence, Golden Apple Award for Teaching, Thomas Cover dissertation award from the IEEE Society, Douglas Basil Award for Junior Business Faculty, Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation award, and several faculty awards from Google Research, Adobe Research, and Amazon.