Ziv Goldfeld

Ziv Goldfeld Assistant Professor School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Cornell University

I am an Assistant Professor at 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. I am also a member of the Foundations of Information, Networks, and Decision Systems (FIND) group. I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT. Before that, I received my B.Sc., M.Sc. (both summa cum laude) and Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

My research is supported by the NSF CAREER Award, an NSF DMS Grant, an NSF-BSF CIF Grant, and the IBM 2020 University Award.

Graduate Students and Postdocs

Ph.D. Students: Sloan Nietert, Theshani Nuradha (co-advised with Mark Wilde), Gabriel Rioux, and Zhengxin Zhang.

Postdocs: Haiyun He.

Alumni: Sreejith Sreekumar (Quantum Information at RWTH Aachen University).

Research Interests

My research focuses broadly on optimal transport theory, information theory, mathematical statistics, and statistical learning theory. More specific interests include:

• Optimal transport theory and other divergences: fundamentals, regularization methods, statistical and algorithmic theory, Gromov-Wasserstein alignment theory (seminars I gave about recent advancements on smooth and sliced optimal transport)

• Information theory (seminars on information flows in deep neural and our new sliced mutual information framework)

• Privacy and security (lecture on information-theoretic security I gave at Stanford's EE 25N Science of Information course and a podcast by the students)

• Mathematical statistics

Contact Information:

Office: Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, Room 335
Telephone: (607) 255-4527
Email: goldfeld {at} cornell.edu
Web page: http://people.ece.cornell.edu/zivg/