About me
Name: Professor Laura Balzano
Title: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Bio:
Laura Balzano is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and of Statistics by courtesy, at the University of Michigan. She is recipient of the NSF Career Award, ARO Young Investigator Award, AFOSR Young Investigator Award, and faculty fellowships from Intel and 3M. She received an MLK Spirit Award, the Vulcans Education Excellence Award, and the Sarah Goddard Power award at the University of Michigan. She received an Early Career Alumni award from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her main research focus is on modeling with big, messy data — highly incomplete or corrupted data, uncalibrated data, and heterogeneous data — and its applications in a wide range of scientific problems. Her expertise is in statistical signal processing, matrix factorization, and optimization. Laura received a BS from Rice University, MS from UCLA, and PhD from the University of Wisconsin in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
