Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy received his PhD from the Operations Research and Information Engineering department at Cornell University in 2013, followed by a post doctoral appointment in the Combinatorics and Optimization department at University of Waterloo, 2013-2014. He joined the Mathematics department at University of Washington as an Assistant Professor in 2014 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2022. Since 2025, Dmitriy is a Professor at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) at UC San Diego. Dmitriy’s research broadly focuses on designing and analyzing algorithms for large-scale optimization problems, primarily motivated by applications in data science. Dmitriy has received a number of awards, including the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, NSF CAREER, SIAG/OPT Best Paper Prize 2023, Paul Tseng Faculty fellowship 2022-2026, INFORMS Optimization Society Young Researcher Prize 2019, and finalist citations for the Tucker Prize 2015 and the Young Researcher Best Paper Prize at ICCOPT 2019.

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