He has won several awards and fellowships. His paper awards include the SIAM SIGEST award, best papers at NIPS, ICML, COLT, and an INFORMS Applied Probability Society Best Student Paper Award (as advisor). He has also received the SIAM Early Career Prize in Optimization, an ONR Young Investigator Award, an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Fellowship in Mathematics, the Okawa Foundation Award, the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (honorable mention), and U.C. Berkeley's C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award.
Research Experience
He has graduated dozens of PhD students who have gone to careers in academia (e.g., Columbia University, ETH Zurich), technology (e.g., Amazon, Apple, Google), and finance.
Background
John Duchi is an associate professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His work spans statistical learning, optimization, information theory, and computation.