Arya Akhavan

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at CMAP, École Polytechnique de Paris. I am interested in optimization in all aspects and mainly its applications in statistical inference. I did my PhD at Crest, ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, where I was fortunate to be advised by Alexandre B. Tsybakov and Massimiliano Pontil. I defended my thesis on February 3, 2023. You can find here my PhD thesis.

Education

• PhD Candidate, Theoretical Statistics

  ENSAE IP, Paris, and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia-Genova (IIT), September 2019 – February 2023

  Supervisors: Alexandre B. Tsybakov and Massimiliano Pontil

• Master M2 MASH Learning and Applications

  Paris Dauphine University and École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay,   Fall 2017 – December 2018

• First year of Master in Mathematics

  Sharif University of Technology,   2016 – 2017

• B.Sc. in Mathematics

  Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences, University of Tehran,   2011 – 2016

• High School Diploma in Mathematics and Physics Discipline

  Rahyar High School, Tehran, Iran,   2007 – 2011

Work Experience

• Research Fellow at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia-Genova (IIT), Spring 2019

  Supervisors: Alexandre B. Tsybakov and Massimiliano Pontil

• Internship at ENSAE, IP, Paris, Spring and Fall 2018

  Supervisor: Alexandre B. Tsybakov