Meisam Razaviyayn
Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Associate Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education
- 2014, Doctoral Degree, University of Minnesota
Biography
Meisam Razaviyayn is an assistant professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering with courtesy appointments at the Electrical and Engineering Department and the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California. Prior to joining USC, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering with minor in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota. He obtained his MS degree in Mathematics from University of Minnesota. Meisam Razaviyayn is the recipient of IEEE Data Science Workshop Best Paper Award in 2019, the Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award in 2014, and the finalist for Best Paper Prize for Young Researcher in Continuous Optimization in 2013 and 2016. His research interests include the design and analysis of large scale optimization algorithms arise in modern data science era
Research Summary
I am passionate about the design and study of efficient optimization algorithms and tools that arise in modern data science and machine learning applications.
Awards:
IEEE Data Science Workshop Best Paper Award, 2019
Finalist of the Best Paper Prize for Young Researcher in Continuous Optimization, ICCOPT 2016
Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, December 2014
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2013
Finalist of the Best Paper Prize for Young Researcher in Continuous Optimization, ICCOPT 2013
Paper Shortlisted for Best Student Paper Award, SPAWC 2010
Appointments
- Associate Director of Program or Center, USC-Meta Center
- Daniel J Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems
- Computer Science
- Molecular and Computational Biology
Office
- OHE 310G
- Olin Hall of Engineering
- 3650 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90089
- USC Mail Code: 193
Contact Information
- razaviya@usc.edu