Arya Akhavan

I am currently a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oxford. Previously, I spent a year as a postdoc at CMAP, École Polytechnique, Paris. I am interested in optimization in all aspects and mainly its applications in online learning. 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.

Work Experience

• University of Oxford

  Postdoctoral researcher, September 2024 – Present

• École Polytechnique de Paris

  Postdoctoral researcher, March 2023 – July 2024

• Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia-Genova (IIT)

  Research fellow, April 2019 - August 2019

• ENSAE, IP, Paris

  Master's internship, April 2018 - December 2018

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