Salman Avestimehr

PROF. SALMAN AVESTIMEHR

I am a professor, the inaugural director of the USC-Amazon Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning (Trusted AI), and the director of the Information Theory and Machine Learning (vITAL) research lab at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Computer Science Department of University of Southern California. I am also an Amazon Scholar at Alexa AI. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in  2008. I do research in the areas of information theory, distributed computing, machine learning, and secure and private learning/computing.