Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira is a "pesquisador titular" (equivalent to full professor) and a member of the Data Science group at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro. His interests span Probability theory and its connections with Statistics, Discrete Mathematics, Optimization and other topics. In 2025, Roberto was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics "for being a leading researcher in probability and mathematical statistics with a rarely seen breadth of interests and expertise."
Roberto has served the community in various capacities, including as the editor-in-chief of ALEA; an associate editor of Bernoulli and Operations Research; a senior PC member of the Conference on Learning Theory (COLT); and a member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Mathematical Society (SBM).
I have been fortunate to write papers and/or lecture notes with the following people (a (*) indicates a current/former student/postdoc):
Louigi Addario-Berry, Barbara Amaral, Anna Ben-Hamou (*), Arvid Bessen, Shankar Bhamidi, Eric Biagioli (*), Sergey Bravyi, Sebastien Bubeck, Oscar Dahlsten, Luc Devroye, David DiVincenzo, Yevgeniy Dodis, Raphael Drumond (*), Cristhiano Duarte, Ariel Elbaz, Simon Griffiths, Aram Harrow, Marcelo Richard Hilário, Alfredo Iusem, Alejandro Jofré, Ross Kang, Matthieu Lerasle (*), Gábor Lugosi, Song Mei, Theodor Misiakiewicz, Michael Mitzenmacher, Andrea Montanari, Rob Morris, Viresh Patel, Alan Pereira (*), Yuval Peres, Krzysztof Pietrzak, Martin Plenio, Ran Raz, Guilherme Reis (*), Rodrigo Ribeiro (*), Joel Spencer, Lucas Stolerman (*), Barbara Terhal, Philip Thompson.