
Rad Niazadeh
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer Science
Bio
My name is Rad Niazadeh (راد نیازاده). I am a Motwani postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University (computer science department, theory group) since Fall 2017, mentored by professor Amin Saberi, professor Tim Roughgarden and professor Moses Charikar. Prior to that, I did my Ph.D. in theoretical computer science at Cornell University, where I was thrilled to have professor Robert Kleinberg as my advisor. Joint with Stanford, I will also be a long-term visiting scientist at Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley during Fall 2017. I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering form Sharif University of Technology in 2008 and 2010 respectively.
Honors & Awards
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Motwani Fellowship, Stanford University (2017)
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Google PhD Fellowship (in market algorithms), Google (2016)
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Jacobs Scholar Fellowship, Cornell University (2011)
Professional Education
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Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University (2017)
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Master of Science, Sharif University of Technology (2010)
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Bachelor of Science, Sharif University of Technology (2008)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
My current interests are in different areas of theoretical computer science and operations research, with a focus on “economics and computation”:
1-Algorithmic mechanism design,
2-Online algorithms and pricing mechanisms,
3-Stochastic optimization,
4-Intersection of machine learning and market design.
Problems related to combinatorial optimization, game theory, machine learning and probability theory are of my general interest.