Bio

Maryam Aliakbarpour is the Michael B. Yuen and Sandra A. Tsai Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. In the summer of 2024, she was a research fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley. Before joining Rice, Maryam held postdoctoral positions at Boston University, Northeastern University, and UMass Amherst. She completed her Ph.D. at MIT in 2020, advised by Prof. Ronitt Rubinfeld. Maryam’s research focuses on theoretical computer science, with a particular emphasis on the algorithmic aspects of statistical inference, privacy, and learning in resource-constrained environments.