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Meisam Razaviyayn is an associate professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Quantitative Computational Biology, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He serves as the associate director of the USC-Meta Center for Research Education in AI Learning. Prior to joining USC, Dr. Razaviyayn was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, where he also received his Master’s degree in Mathematics. Razaviyayn has received numerous awards including the NSF CAREER Award in 2022, the Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, and the AFOSR Young Investigator Award in 2021. His research interests lie in the design study of scalable and trustworthy optimization algorithms, particularly as they pertain to modern data science and machine learning applications. He has been recognized for his contributions and has collaborated with various students, guiding them to achieve accolades in their research endeavors.
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