Dr. Haipeng Luo

Associate Professor

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Biography

Haipeng Luo is an Associate Professor and the IBM Early Career Chair in the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2016 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research. His research interests focus on developing practical machine learning algorithms with strong theoretical guarantees, emphasizing areas such as online learning, bandit algorithms, reinforcement learning, and game theory. Dr. Luo has received several prestigious awards, including the NSF CAREER award, NSF CRII award, Google Faculty Research Award, and Google Research Scholar Award, as well as accolades for his papers at conferences like ICML, NeurIPS, and COLT. His recent work centers on creating efficient, adaptive, and robust algorithms for online learning problems, particularly those requiring the learning of partial information, and he has published numerous papers in these domains.

Research Interests

Experience

Associate Professor

2016-08-01 — Present

University of Southern California • Los Angeles, CA

Teaching and conducting research in the field of computer science, focusing on algorithms in machine learning.

Requirements for University of Southern California

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Listening
Required:6
Reading
Required:6
Writing
Required:6
Speaking
Required:6
Overall
Required:6.5
GRE General
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Math, or Hard Science
Application Checklist
  • Online application
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  • Personal Statement
  • Resume/CV
  • Letters of Recommendation (not required for MS CS, but allowed)
Specialization Notes

GRE is NOT required for Master's applicants for 2025-2026.