Arya Mazumdar

Coding theory etc. ... 

Professor of Data Science and Computer Science University of California San Diego

School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences
Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI)
UCSD Site Lead, EnCORE: Institute for Emerging CORE Methods of Data Science
Deputy Director and Associate Director for Research, NSF AI Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale
Computer Science and Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering
email: arya@ucsd.edu

Research Interests

I work on algorithmic and statistical aspects of machine learning, error correcting codes, optimization and signal processing.

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Bio

I am a tenured full professor in the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) at the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences, and an affiliated professor in the Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments at UCSD. From 2015-2021, I was first an assistant, and then an associate professor of Computer Science at UMass with additional affiliations to Center for Data Science and Department of Mathematics and Statistics. During 2019-2020, I was also a senior scientist in Amazon in Berkeley, CA. My research is mainly supported by the NSF via multiple grants, including an NSF CAREER award. Before joining UMass, I was an assistant professor at University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. And even before that, I was a postdoctoral scholar (Aug 2011- Dec 2012) at Signals, Information and Algorithms Lab led by Greg Wornell at MIT.

I received my PhD in 2011 from University of Maryland, College Park under the guidance of Alexander Barg. My thesis, Combinatorial Methods in Coding Theory, won a distinguished dissertation fellowship award in UMD, and also an ISIT Jack K Wolf paper award. While a graduate student, I spent summer of 2010 at IBM Almaden, San Jose, CA, and summer of 2008 at HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA doing internships. As of now, I am also serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and as an Area Editor of Foundation and Trends in Communication and Information Theory, in addition to being a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society for 2023-2024.

Back in a magical decade, I was born in the then-small-town of Siliguri in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.