Bio: Meisam Razaviyayn (
https://sites.usc.edu/razaviyayn) is an associate professor in the departments of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Quantitative and Computational Biology, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He also serves as the associate director of the USC-Meta Center for Research and Education in AI and Learning (
https://realai.usc.edu) and is a Faculty Visitor at Google Research. Before joining USC, Meisam was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, where he also received his M.Sc. in Mathematics. His research and academic efforts have been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2022 NSF CAREER Award, the 2022 Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2021 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, and the 2021 3M Nontenured Faculty Award. He received the 2020 ICCM Best Paper Award in Mathematics and the IEEE-DSW Best Paper Award in 2019, along with the Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award in 2014. Meisam was among the selected individuals by the National Academy of Engineering for the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in 2023. Additionally, he was a finalist for the Best Paper Prize for Young Researchers in Continuous Optimization in 2013 and 2016, and a silver medalist in Iran’s National Mathematics Olympiad. His research focuses on the design and analysis of fundamental optimization algorithms relevant to the modern AI era.
