Alireza Fallah

Postdoctoral Researcher, Apple Research Fellow,

Rice University

Alireza Fallah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in the summer of 2023, working with Asu Ozdaglar and Daron Acemoglu. Prior to joining Rice, he was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, hosted by Michael Jordan. He also spent the fall of 2023 as the Gamelin Postdoctoral Fellow at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (formerly MSRI), participating in the Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design program.

His research spans machine learning theory, economic theory, market and mechanism design, game theory, optimization, and privacy. His work integrates tools and insights from these fields to tackle challenges arising from the interplay between ML algorithms and human behavior.

He has received several awards and fellowships, including an honorable mention for the ACM SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award, the Ernst A. Guillemin MIT MSc. Thesis Award, the Gamelin Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Apple Scholars in AI/ML Ph.D. Fellowship, the MathWorks Engineering Fellowship, and the Siebel Scholarship.

Program Visits

Federated and Collaborative Learning, Spring 2026, Research Fellow