Scholar
Arya Mazumdar
Google Scholar ID: 9tjQU1EAAAAJ
HDSI Endowed Chair Professor in AI, University of California, San Diego
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,863
H-index
23
i10-index
58
Publications
20
Co-authors
48
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- ECE Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Maryland, College Park, 2025.
- 2020 EURASIP JASP Best Paper Award.
- Dissertation received UMD Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship and ISIT Jack K Wolf Paper Award.
- IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2023–2024.
- Co-PI and co-leader of Foundations research in the NSF National AI Institute TILOS.
- EnCORE Institute designated as an NSF TRIPODS Phase II Institute.
- Organized multiple workshops on topics including theoretical perspectives on LLMs, clustering theory, and computational vs. statistical gaps in learning.
Research Experience
- 2015–2021: Assistant then Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass), with affiliations to the Center for Data Science and Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- 2019–2020: Senior Scientist at Amazon in Berkeley, CA.
- 2013–2015: Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.
- 2011–2012: Postdoctoral Scholar at MIT’s Signals, Information and Algorithms Lab under Greg Wornell.
- Joined UCSD in January 2021.
- Research primarily funded by the NSF, including an NSF CAREER Award.
