Adel Javanmard
ContactOffice: 300A Bridge Hall, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Here are links to my Google Scholar Profile, LinkedIn Profile and a short bio in the third-person. Prospective PhD students: If you have strong theoretical background in Statistics, optimization and machine learning, and are enthusiastic about pursuing a Ph.D. in Data Science at USC Marshall, please don't hesitate to get in touch. Share your CV and express your areas of interest with me. About MeI am a Professor of Data Sciences and Operations, Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (USC). Due to strong overlap in research interests, I also hold a courtesy appointment at the Computer Science Department in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Prior to joining USC, I was NSF CSoI postdoctoral fellow with worksite at Stanford University and UC Berkeley. I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University advised by Andrea Montanari. I am 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. Some of the topics that I have been working on in the past few years include:
I have been fortunate enough to receive a number of recognitions for my work, including the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics, the IMS Tweedie Researcher award, the NSF CAREER award, as well as industry grants and awards (Google, Adobe). See the Awards & Honors section for more details. I have also been serving as an Associate Editor for Operations Research in the “Machine Learning and Data Science” department (since 2021), and the Dantzig Dissertation Prize Committee (2022-2023). I have been teaching core courses in the undergraduate program (applied business statistics and operations management), and PhD special topics courses in modern statistical inference. In 2022, I received the Golden Apple Award for core classes, given each year to faculty who demonstrate, in their teaching and results, a significant, positive impact on the students’ growth and learning (selected by students’ votes). Selected PublicationsFor the complete list of publications, check here (for publications by year) and here (for publications by topic). Measuring Re-identification Risk
Precise Tradeoffs in Adversarial Training for Linear Regression
Analysis of a Two-Layer Neural Network via Displacement Convexity
Dynamic Incentive-Aware Learning: Robust Pricing in Contextual Auctions
Theoretical insights into the optimization landscape of over-parameterized shallow neural networks
Phase Transitions in Semidefinite Relaxations [Website] Confidence Intervals and
Hypothesis Testing for High-Dimensional Regression [Website] Information-Theoretically Optimal Compressed Sensing via Spatial Coupling and Approximate Message Passing |