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Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Industrial and Systems Engineering

Education

  • 2014, Doctoral Degree, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • 2014, Master's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • 2009, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Sharif University Of Technology

Biography

Mahdi Soltanolkotabi completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University in 2014. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the EECS and Statistics departments at UC Berkeley during the 2014-2015 academic year.



Research Summary

Soltanolkotabi's research focuses on design and mathematical understanding of computationally efficient algorithms for optimization, high dimensional statistics, machine learning, signal processing and computational imaging. Recently a main focus of his research has been on developing and analyzing algorithms for non-convex optimization with provable guarantees of convergence to the global optimum. A particular focus on the application side has been on computational imaging.

Appointments
  • Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
  • Daniel J Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Office
  • EEB 430
  • Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center
  • 3740 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90089
  • USC Mail Code: 2564
Contact Information
  • (213) 740-4456
  • soltanol@usc.edu
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