Yair Carmon
Scholar

Yair Carmon

Google Scholar ID: kTKmpT0AAAAJ
Tel Aviv University
Machine LearningOptimizationStatistics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
6,386
 
H-index
29
 
i10-index
38
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
14
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple papers, including 'Accelerated Parameter-Free Stochastic Optimization' (COLT 2024) and 'The Price of Adaptivity in Stochastic Convex Optimization' (COLT 2024, best paper award). Involved in several projects such as 'DataComp-LM: In Search of the Next Generation of Training Sets for Language Models'.
Research Experience
  • Currently an assistant professor at Tel Aviv University’s School of Computer Science.
Education
  • Completed PhD at Stanford University in 2020, advised by John Duchi and Aaron Sidford; previously obtained B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, where he worked with Shlomo Shamai and Tsachy Weissman.
Background
  • Research interests include machine learning, optimization, and statistics, with a particular focus on understanding and overcoming fundamental limits. Current research focuses on making machine learning and optimization algorithms robust and reliable.
Miscellany
  • Name pronounced as Yah-ear (with the Hebrew pronunciation of 'r').