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Salman Avestimehr is a Dean's Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008, following a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the same institution in 2005, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2003. Prior to joining USC, he held the position of Assistant Professor at Cornell University from 2009 to 2013 and was a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Mathematics of Information at Caltech in 2008. He is the inaugural director of the vITAL research lab, focusing on Information Theory and Machine Learning, and co-founder of FedML. His research interests include Information Theory, Machine Learning, Distributed Computing, Secure Private Learning, and Federated Learning. Avestimehr has received several awards for his research and teaching, including the IEEE Information Theory Society James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
University of Southern California • Los Angeles, CA
Dean's Professor and Director of the vITAL research lab.
Cornell University •
Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.
Caltech •
Postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Mathematics of Information.
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