Zaid Harchaoui is a Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, in the Department of Statistics and in the Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering (dual appointment), and a Senior Data Science Fellow in the eScience Institute.
He is an associate editor at the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series B, and an action editor at the Journal of Machine Learning Research. He is a principal investigator and a cofounder of IFML, the NSF-AI Institute on Foundations of Machine Learning, and of IFDS, the NSF-TRIPODS institute on foundations of data science.
He obtained the doctoral degree from Telecom Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, for his research performed at CNRS - the French National Institute for Fundamental Research. He previously held appointments at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, and at INRIA - the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology.