bio – Samet Oymak


I am an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 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