Vaggos Chatziafratis
Scholar

Vaggos Chatziafratis

Google Scholar ID: FjCVRKkAAAAJ
University of California, Santa Cruz
AlgorithmsMachine Learning Theory
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
671
 
H-index
14
 
i10-index
17
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
46
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Contact
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Paper accepted to ICLR 2023 as an oral presentation (top 5%).
  • Published on hyperbolic hierarchical clustering at NeurIPS 2020.
  • Published depth/width tradeoff papers at ICLR 2020 and ICML 2020.
  • Presented work at top venues including COLT and AISTATS in 2019.
  • Invited talks at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Google, Facebook, ETH Zurich, and others.
  • Ph.D. committee: Tim Roughgarden (adviser), Moses Charikar (co-adviser), Li-Yang Tan, Greg Valiant, Jan Vondrak (chair).
Research Experience
  • Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz, CSE Department (since July 2021).
  • Postdoc at Northwestern University (2021–2022, on leave), mentored by Samir Khuller, Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, and Kostya Makarychev.
  • FODSI Fellow at MIT/Northeastern (since January 2022).
  • Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google Research New York (July 2020–2021), hosted by Mohammad Mahdian and Vahab Mirrokni.
  • Summer Intern at Google NY (Summer 2019), under Mohammad Mahdian and Vahab Mirrokni.