Associate Professor of Data Sciences and Operations and Computer Science
Education
- 2014, Doctoral Degree, Stanford University
Biography
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 the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics, the IMS Tweedie Researcher award, the 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.
Research Summary
Professor Javanmard is broadly interested in uncertainty-aware machine learning, theoretical understanding of deep learning, personalized decision making, and private learning.
Awards
- 2024 AWS AI Amazon Research Awards
- 2024 USC Marshall School of Business Dean’s Associate Professorship Chair in Business Administration
- 2024 USC Marshall School of Business Dean’s Award for Research Excellence
- 2024 USC Marshall School of Business Outlier Research in Business grant
- 2024 USC Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Research Award
- 2023 Annals of Statistics Special Invited Session Speaker at the Joint Statistical Meetings
- 2022 USC Marshall School of Business Golden Apple Award for teaching in undergraduate core classes (2022)
- 2022 Adobe Data Science Faculty Research Award
- 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
