ORIE Colloquium: Ahmed El Alaoui (Cornell SDS)

Bio:
Ahmed El Alaoui joined the Department of Statistics and Data Science faculty as an assistant professor in January 2021. He received his Ph.D. in 2018 in electrical engineering and computer sciences from UC Berkeley, advised by Michael I. Jordan. He was afterwards a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, hosted by Andrea Montanari. His research interests revolve around high-dimensional phenomena in statistics and probability theory, statistical physics, algorithms, and problems where these areas meet.