bio – Samet Oymak

I am an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (effective Aug 2025). My research lies at the confluence of machine learning, optimization, and statistics. Previously, I was an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. I completed my undergraduate education at Bilkent University in 2009. I received my MS and PhD degrees from Caltech (in 2011 and 2015). My PhD advisor is Babak Hassibi. Before joining UCR, I worked at The Voleon Group and Google. I was also a also a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley hosted by Ben Recht and The Simons Institute. You can find my CV here.

Selected Recognitions:

  • EECS Outstanding Achievement Award (2025)
  • Amazon Research award (2024)
  • Adobe Data Science Research award (2023)
  • Google Research Scholar award (2022)
  • NSF CAREER award (2021)
  • Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship (2015)
  • Caltech’s Wilts Prize for PhD thesis (2015)

Selected Service:

  • Senior Area Chair: NeurIPS 2024, 2025
  • Associate Editor: Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Area Chair: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, AISTATS