Short Biography

Ziv Goldfeld is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a graduate field member in Computer Science, Data Science, and the Center of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. Before joining Cornell, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in LIDS at MIT . Ziv graduated with a B.Sc. summa cum laude, an M.Sc. summa cum laude and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ben Gurion University, Israel, in 2012, 2015 and 2018, respectively. Ziv's research interests include optimal transport theory, information theory, mathematical statistics, and applied probability. He develops mathematical tools and leverages them for an in-depth theoretical analysis of modern inference and learning methods. Honors include the NSF CAREER Award, the IBM 2020 University Award, and the Rothschild postdoctoral fellowship.