Dr. Raaz Dwivedi

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Raaz Dwivedi is an Assistant Professor at Cornell Tech within Cornell Engineering, specializing in Operations Research and Information Engineering. He holds membership in the fields of Computer Science, Statistics, and the Center for Applied Mathematics. As a co-founder of Traversal, a startup dedicated to developing AI Site Reliability Engineering tools, he automates the root cause identification and remediation of complex software outages. His research adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to data science, with significant emphasis on causal inference, reinforcement learning, and building AI agents that enhance sequential decision-making processes. Dwivedi previously served as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and MIT, and he has been a researcher at Microsoft Research and WorldQuant. His academic accolades include the Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award and multiple student paper and teaching awards from UC Berkeley and Harvard. He also received the Berkeley Fellowship and the President of India Gold Medal from IIT Bombay.

Research Interests

Requirements for Cornell University

Master Program
Requirements
TOEFL
Listening
Required:15
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:100
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Architecture or related field
Application Checklist
  • Online application
  • Portfolio (SlideRoom)
  • Academic Statement of Purpose
  • Personal Statement
  • Transcripts
  • Two letters of recommendation
  • Resume/CV
Specialization Notes

Department of Architecture