Personal

my vita and a brief bio ▸
my blog and my Twitter
FAQ ← please read before cold emailing me

Research

publications
volumes edited
my google scholar

Advising

Saeid Hajizadeh, Math Ph.D. in progress
Neshat Mohammadi (w/ A. Sidiropoulos), CS Ph.D. in progress
Aditya Potukuchi (w/ W. Perkins), TRIPODS/MSCS RAP (postdoc), 2020–
Shelby Heinecke, Math Ph.D. 2020 ▸
Mano Vikash Janardhanan, Math Ph.D. 2019 ▸
Benjamin Fish, Math Ph.D. 2018 ▸
Yi Huang, Math Ph.D. 2017 ▸
Li Wang, MSCS RAP (postdoc), 2015–2017 ▸
Ádám Lelkes (w/ G. Turán), Math Ph.D. 2017 ▸
Jeremy Kun, Math Ph.D. 2016 ▸

Funding (as PI/co-PI)

current: NSF CCF-1934915 (2019-2022), NSF CCF-1848966 (2018-2021)
past: NSF IIS-1526379 (2015-2018), ARO 66497-NS (2015-2016)

Teaching

UIC CS 501/MCS 501: Computer Algorithms II (class Piazza site)
UIC MCS 548: Mathematical Theory of Artificial Intelligence (class Piazza site) ▸
UIC ECON 473/STAT 473: Game Theory ▸
UIC MCS 549: Mathematical Foundations of Data Science ▸
UIC CS 401/MCS 401: Computer Algorithms I ▸
UIC MCS 441: Theory of Computation I ▸
UIC MCS 521: Combinatorial Optimization ▸
NWU EECS 497-3: Advanced Topics in Computational Learning Theory ▸
NWU EECS 496-10: Computational Learning Theory ▸
GaTech CS 8803/MATH 8833: Discrete Fourier Analysis and Applications ▸

Service (recent/selected)

Ann Math Artif Intell associate editor (2016-present)
J Mach Learn Res editorial board reviewer (2020-present)
AALT secretary and treasurer (2018-present)
cstheory.stackexchange.com moderator (2014-present)
PC (co-)chair: ISAIM 2020, ALT 2017
area chair: IJCAI 2021
local (co-)chair: ~~MMLS 2020~~, ALT 2019
(co-)organizer: IMSI/ML 2021, ISAIM/ML 2018

Other

my math genealogy entry
my Erdös number is 3 ▸
some of my photos on Instagram