Arya Mazumdar

Arya Mazumdar is the HDSI Endowed Chair Professor in AI at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI), Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments at University of California San Diego. She co-leads NSF's AI Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale (TILOS) and serves as UCSD Site Lead for EnCORE: Institute for Emerging CORE Methods of Data Science. Her research bridges machine learning, information theory, and optimization with applications in distributed learning, clustering, and data science.

• Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Information Theory Society (2023-2024)
• Co-PI, NSF AI Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale
• Formerly: Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst (2015-2021)

Research focus areas include:

• Learning-enabled optimization algorithms
• Communication-efficient distributed systems
• Neural auto-associative memory
• Locally repairable codes

Key scientific recognitions:

• ECE Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Maryland (2025)
• EURASIP JASP Best Paper Award (2020)
• NSF CAREER award