Short Biography

Ziv Goldfeld is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a graduate field member of Computer Science, Statistics and Data Science, Operations Research and Information Engineering, 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 the mathematical and algorithmic foundations of interpretable AI algorithms, subject to formal guarantees on accuracy, efficiency, scalability, robustness, and safety. Honors include the NSF CAREER Award, the IBM 2020 University Award, and the Rothschild postdoctoral fellowship.