Associate Professor of Statistics, Senior Data Science Fellow
Biography
Zaid Harchaoui is currently an associate professor in the Department of Statistics, an adjunct faculty in the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science and Engineering, and a senior data science fellow in the eScience Institute at University of Washington. He received his doctoral degree from Telecom ParisTech – now part of Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Before joining the University of Washington, he was a visiting assistant professor at the Center for Data Science and the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences at New York University (2015 – 2016). Prior to this, he was a staff research scientist at INRIA (2010 – 2015). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. He is currently a member of the leadership team of the NSF TRIPODS Institute for Foundations of Data Science and the NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning.