Prof. Mohsen Bayati

Join us for the Data Sciences Speaker Series with Prof. Mohsen Bayati, Professor at Stanford University.  This talk is co-sponsored by the Data Sciences Institute and the Centre for Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering (CARTE), University of Toronto.

• Date: May 26, 2025
• Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
• Format: In-person
• Location: Data Sciences Institute, 10th floor Seminar Room, 700 University Avenue, Toronto 

Talk Title: TBC

Biography

Prof. Bayati’s research focuses on data-driven decision-making and experiment design, particularly as they intersect with healthcare and e-commerce. He utilizes tools from contextual multi-armed bandits, graphical models, message-passing algorithms, and high-dimensional statistics. Mohsen received a BS in Mathematics from Sharif University of Technology and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research and Stanford University. His work was awarded the INFORMS Healthcare Applications Society’s Best Paper (Pierskalla) Award in 2014 and 2016, the INFORMS Applied Probability Society’s Best Paper Award in 2015, and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.