I am a Computer Science PhD candidate at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering advised by Phebe Vayanos. I am a part of the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAIS) as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and was one of its student leaders for two years. I obtained a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics with a humanities concentration in American Studies from Harvey Mudd College in 2019, graduating with high distinction and departmental honors in mathematics. I am also a former backend software engineer at Aspiration Partners, Inc.
I am currently on the 2025-2026 academic job market! Please feel free to email me about any opportunities.
Research areas: Data Driven Decision Making, Interpretable Machine Learning, Robust Optimization, Artificial Intelligence for Social Good, Mixed Integer Optimization, Data Analytics
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Email: njustin@usc.edu
Twitter/X: @nathanljustin
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Gm3hzegAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao