Online Optimization, Smoothing, and Worst-case Competitive Ratio
Maryam Fazel
Abstract
Speaker's Bio
Maryam Fazel is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, with adjunct appointments in Computer Science and Engineering, Mathematics, and Statistics. Maryam received her MS and PhD from Stanford University, her BS from Sharif University of Technology in Iran, and was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech prior to joining UW. Her current research interests are in mathematical optimization and applications in machine learning. She is a recipient of the NSF Career Award, the UWEE Outstanding Teaching Award, UAI conference Best Student Paper Award (with her student), and coauthored a paper on low-rank matrix recovery selected as a Fast-Breaking paper by Science Watch (2011).