Amin Karbasi is currently an associate professor of electrical engineering, computer science, and statistics and data science at Yale university. Prior to that he was a post-doctoral scholar at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2013-2014). He obtained his Ph.D. (2012) and M.Sc. (2007) in computer and communication sciences from EPFL, Switzerland and his B.Sc. (2004) in electrical engineering from the same university.
Student Awards
I am proudest of the recognitions my students/mentees received, including:
- Graduate Fellowship for STEM diversity from NSA received by Jane Lee
- Simons Research Fellowship 2021 for Chris Harshaw
- Brain Initiative Trainee Award 2020 for Javid Dadashkarimi
- Simons Research Fellowship 2020 for Lin Chen
- Facebook-Main Award 2019 for Mehraveh Salehi
- Ivy 3-Minute Thesis Competition Award 2019 for Mehraveh Salehi
- Best Poster Award in International Workshop on Connectomics in Neuroimaging, MICCAI 2019 for Javid Dadashkarimi
- Google PhD Felloswhip Award 2018 for Lin Chen
- MICCAI Young Scientist Award 2017 for Mehraveh Salehi
- Early Postdoc Mobility fellowships 2015 from Swiss National Science Foundation for Ehsan Kazemi
Awards
- GRAIL 2022 best paper award for the paper “Transforming connectomes to ‘any’ parcellation via graph matching”
- Bell Labs Prize 2021 for “Reading the Brain: From Neurons to Bits”
- NSF CAREER Award 2019
- ONR Young Investigator Award 2019
- Amazon Research Award 2018
- AFOSR Young Investigator Award 2018
- Microsoft Azure Research Award 2017
- Grainger Award 2017 from National Academy of Engineering for Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research
- MICCAI Best Paper Award 2017 for the paper “A Submodular Approach to Create Individualized Parcellations of the Human Brain”
- Simons Research Fellowship 2017 for “Foundations of Machine Learning”
- DARPA Young Faculty Award 2016
- Google Faculty Research Award 2016
- AISTATS Best Student Paper Award 2015 for the paper “Tradeoffs for Space, Time, Data and Risk in Unsupervised Learning”
- IEEE Data Storage Best Student Paper Award 2013 for the paper “Noise-Enhanced Associative Memories”
- Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize 2013 for the best Ph.D. thesis in the school of computer and communication sciences at EPFL
- ETHZ Fellowship Grant 2013
- ICASSP Best Student Paper Award 2011 for the paper “Calibration in Circular Ultrasound Tomography Devices”
- ACM SIGMETRICS Best Student Paper Award 2010 for the paper “Distributed Sensor Network Localization from Local Connectivity: Performance Analysis for the HOP-TERRAIN Algorithm”
- ISIT Best Student Paper Award Nominee 2010 for the paper “Graph-Constrained Group Testing”