Zaid Harchaoui

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.