About
In brief
Full professor & member of the Probability group at IMPA
Associate editor for Operations Research and ALEA
Deputy editor of the Fronteiras da Matemática collection of "Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática" (Brazilian Math Society)
Advisor/mentor to lots postgraduate students and postdocs (see full CV for list)
Coauthors
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.
Formal bio
Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira (b. 1977) is a full professor at IMPA. Roberto’s research interests are in Probability and related disciplines such as Statistics, Optimization and Discrete Math, especially as they pertain to systems with many degrees of freedom or an interesting combinatorial structure. Roberto holds a Ph.D. degree from the Courant Institute at New York University (2004), where he was advised by Joel Spencer. Previous degrees include a B.Sc. in Math from PUC-Rio (1999) and a M.Sc. in Math from IMPA (2000). Prior to joining the faculty of IMPA in 2006, Roberto was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Physics of Information group at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, where he was mentored by Barbara Terhal.