I am a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Managing Editor of Mathematical Statistics and Learning.
Main previous appointments:
2009 – 2024 Professor, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National Uni.
2023 – 2024 Director, Mathematical Data Science Research Centre (MDSC), Australian National Uni.
2021 – 2023 Professor of Data Science, Department of Statistics, Uni. Warwick.
2021 University Professor of Statistical Learning Theory, Faculty of Mathematics, Uni. Vienna.
2019 Professeur des Universités de Classe Exceptionnelle (2ème echelon, E2) and Excellence Chair (IDEX Scheme) in AI, UFR de Mathématiques, Sorbonne Université.
2009 – 2018 Professor, Department of Mathematics, Technion, I.I.T.
Recent visiting positions:
2024-2025 Professor, FIM, ETH Zurich (Winter and Spring semesters).
2024 Professor, FIM, ETH Zurich (Spring semester).
2023 "Nachdiplom" Lectureship, ETH Zurich (Spring semester).
2022-2023 Professor, Tel Aviv University (Winter semester).
2019-2020 Senior Research Fellow, ESI Vienna (two months).
Recent Scientific committees and conference organization:
Scientific Committee, Global Summer School series on Mathematics of Data Science, Darwin 2024, Lausanne 2025, Singapore 2026.
Scientific Committee, Mathematical Aspects of Learning Theory, Barcelona, September 2024.
Main academic awards and distinctions:
2024 Elected to the Australian Academy of Science.
2023 Nachdiplom Lectureship, ETH Zurich.
2019 Senior Research Fellowship, ESI Vienna.
2008 Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society.
2007 European Research Council Starting grant, “Asymptotic Geometric Analysis and Learning Theory”.
External funding:
Attracted external funding in excess of 2.8 million USD, winning some of the most competitive grants in Europe (ERC starting grant), Australia (ARC Discovery, average success rate < 20%) and Israel (ISF, average success rate <35%; GIF, average success rate < 20%).
Publications:
Published in some of the best general mathematical journals (including Inventiones Math., Journal of the EMS, Geometric and Functional Analysis); in the best journal in Applied Mathematics (Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics); in the best journal in Computer Science (Journal of the ACM), in the best journals in Probability and Statistics (Annals of Probability, Probability Theory and Related Fields, Annals of Statistics), and in the best journals in Information Theory and in Machine Learning (IEEE transactions on Information Theory, Journal of Machine Learning Research).