Sepideh Mahabadi

Sepideh Mahabadi is a senior researcher in MSR Redmond Algorithms group. Her research is mostly focused on Theoretical Foundations of Massive Data, including High Dimensional Computational Geometry, Streaming Algorithms, Data Summarization, as well as Societal Aspects of Algorithms for Massive Data including Diversity Maximization and Algorithmic Fairness. She received her PhD in Computer Science, at the Theory of Computation group at MIT, where she was advised by Piotr Indyk. She spent a year as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University, and three years as a Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC).