Meisam Razaviyayn
Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Associate Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education
- 2014, Doctoral Degree, University of Minnesota
Biography
Meisam Razaviyayn is an associate professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Quantitative and Computational Biology, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is also the associate director of the USC- Meta Center for Research and Education in AI and Learning. Prior to joining USC, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota. He obtained his M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota. Meisam Razaviyayn is the recipient of the 2022 NSF CAREER Award, the 2022 Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2021 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the 2021 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, 2020 ICCM Best Paper Award in Mathematics, IEEE Data Science Workshop Best Paper Award in 2019, the Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award in 2014, and the finalist for Best Paper Prize for Young Researcher in Continuous Optimization in 2013 and 2016. He is also the silver medalist of Iran’s National Mathematics Olympiad. His research interests include the design and the study of the fundamental aspects of optimization algorithms that arise in the modern data science era.
Research Summary
I am passionate about the design and study of scalable trustworthy optimization algorithms and tools that arise in modern data science and machine learning applications.
Awards:
Selected as one of 60 engineers to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s German-America Frontiers of Engineering symposium, 2023
Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, 2022
NSF CAREER Award, March 2022
AFOSR Young Investigator Prize Award, November 2021
3M’s Non-Tenured Faculty Award (NTFA), February 2021
ICCM Best Paper Award in Mathematics, August 2020
IEEE Data Science Workshop Best Paper Award, 2019
Finalist of the Best Paper Prize for Young Researcher in Continuous Optimization, ICCOPT 2016
Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, December 2014
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2013
Finalist of the Best Paper Prize for Young Researcher in Continuous Optimization, ICCOPT 2013
Paper Shortlisted for Best Student Paper Award, SPAWC 2010
University Scholarship for B.Sc. Programs, IUT, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Fifth Place in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), Asia Regional Contest, Iran, 2004
Silver Medal Recipient in 20th National Mathematics Olympiad, Iran, 2003.
Student Collaborators'/Mentees' Awards:
Andrew Lowy: Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences (CAMS) Prize, 2023
Babak Barazandeh: The ISE department's best dissertation award, 2021
Maher Nouiehed: The ISE department's best dissertation award, 2020
Babak Barazandeh: IEEE Data Science Workshop Best Paper Award, 2019
Appointments
- Associate Director of Program or Center, USC-Meta Center
- Daniel J Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems
- Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Office
- OHE 310G
- Olin Hall of Engineering
- 3650 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90089
- USC Mail Code: 193
Contact Information
- razaviya@usc.edu