- Tight Differentially Private PCA via Matrix Coherence (with Gleb Novikov, SODA 2026)
- Sparsest cut and eigenvalue multiplicities on low degree Abelian Cayley graphs (with Chris Jones, Jake Ruotolo, Salil Vadhan, and Jiyu Zhang, APPROX 2025)
- Private graphon estimation via sum-of-squares (with Hongjie Chen, Jingqiu Ding, Yiding Hua, Chih-Hung Liu, and David Steurer, STOC 2024)
- Private estimation algorithms for stochastic block models and mixture models (with Hongjie Chen, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Alessandro Epasto, Jacob Imola, David Steurer, and Stefan Tiegel, NeurIPS 2023 (spotlight))
- Higher degree sum-of-squares relaxations robust against oblivious outliers (with Rajai Nasser, Gleb Novikov, and David Steurer, SODA 2023)
- Fast algorithm for overcomplete order-3 tensor decomposition (with Jingqiu Ding, Chih-Hung Liu, David Steurer, and Stefan Tiegel, COLT 2022)
- Robust Recovery for Stochastic Block Models (with Jingqiu Ding, Rajai Nasser, and David Steurer, FOCS 2021)
- Sparse PCA: Algorithms, Adversarial Perturbations and Certificates (with Pravesh Kothari, Gleb Novikov, and David Steurer, FOCS 2020)
Research Experience
Currently an Assistant Professor in Computing Sciences at Bocconi. Recent & Upcoming Events:
- [Sep. 2025] Theory Seminar, Rutgers
- [Sep. 2025] Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization, Cargese
- [Apr. 2025] Charles River Symposium on Privacy, Harvard
- [Mar. 2025] Theory Seminar, University of Milan
- [Oct. 2024] LucaFest, Simons Institute, Berkeley
- [Sep. 2024] Google Research
Background
Research Interests include Semidefinite Programming, Spectral Methods, Random Matrices, Robust Statistics, High Dimensional Statistics, Differential Privacy, and Augmented-Learning.