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Formal bio
Formal bio
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 (IMS) "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).
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Coauthors
Last updated in September/2025.
I have been fortunate to write papers and/or lecture notes with the following people (a (*) indicates a current or former advisee):
Louigi Addario-Berry, Barbara Amaral, Anna Ben-Hamou (*), Alexandre Belloni, Arvid Bessen, Shankar Bhamidi, Eric Biagioli (*), Sergey Bravyi, Simon Briend, 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, Adriana Monteiro (*), Lucas Monteiro Paes (*), Rob Morris, Deborah Oliveira (*), Viresh Patel, Alan Pereira (*), Yuval Peres, Krzysztof Pietrzak, Martin Plenio, Thiago Ramos (*), Ran Raz, Guilherme Reis (*), Lucas Resende (*), Rodrigo Ribeiro (*), Zoraida F. Rico (*), João Vitor Romano, Rodrigo Schuller, Lucas Schwengber (*), Gabriel Leite Baptista da Silva, Joel Spencer, Lucas Stolerman (*), Barbara Terhal, Philip Thompson, Daniel Yukimura (*).
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