Maryam Aliakbarpour

Maryam Aliakbarpour is the Michael B. Yuen and Sandra A. Tsai Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University. In Summer 2024, she was a research fellow in the Sublinear Algorithms program at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley. Previously, in Fall 2020, she participated in the Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions program at the same institute. Before joining Rice, Maryam held a joint postdoctoral research position at Boston University and Northeastern University, hosted by Professors Adam Smith and Jonathan Ullman, respectively. She also served as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the supervision of Professor Andrew McGregor, from Fall 2020 to Summer 2021. She completed her Ph.D. in September 2020 at MIT, advised by Professor Ronitt Rubinfeld. She was selection as a Rising Star in EECS in 2018 and the Neekeyfar Award from MIT’s Office of Graduate Education in 2013. Maryam’s research interests lie in theoretical computer science and statistical learning theory, with a focus on designing algorithms for statistical problems under computational constraints and ensuring differential privacy.