Bio:
Alireza Aghasi is currently an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Oregon State University. Between 2017 and 2022 he was an assistant professor in the Department of Data Science and Analytics at the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. Prior to this he was a research scientist with the department of Mathematical Sciences, IBM T.J. Watson research center, Yorktown Heights. From 2015 to 2016 he was a postdoctoral associate with the computational imaging group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and between 2012 and 2015 he served as a postdoctoral research scientist with the compressed sensing group at Georgia Tech. His research fundamentally focuses on optimization theory and statistics, with applications to various areas of data science, artificial intelligence, modern signal processing and physics-based inverse problems.
Education:
Ph.D., electrical & computer engineering, Tufts University
M.Sc., operations research, Georgia Tech
M.Sc., electrical & computer engineering, Tehran Polytechnic
B.S., electrical & computer engineering, Isfahan University of Technology
Research Interests:
data science & machine learning
signal & image processing
optimization theory
statistics & probability theory