Biography
Akbar Rafiey is a Visiting Assistant Professor of CSE at NYU and an ML Researcher at RBC Borealis. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at the University of California San Diego. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and an MSc in Mathematics from Simon Fraser University.
His research lies at the intersection of mathematics, theoretical computer science, and machine learning, with a focus on combinatorial optimization, responsible optimization, and the use of machine learning for scalable combinatorial optimization.