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Fulbright Award to study in Portugal

I am so excited to be awarded a Fulbright award to study optimization and machine learning with my colleague Mario Figueiredo in Lisbon, Portugal.

Two U-M stories about it can be found here and here. We will be working on new regularizers for matrix optimization problems.

Education Excellence Award

I have been awarded an Education Excellence award from the U-M College of Engineering. This award recognizes faculty with a demonstrated sustained excellence in curricular development, instruction, and guidance at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Students are the reason why I love having an academic job, so I am truly honored to have received this award.

Promotion to Associate Professor

I am thrilled that yesterday the Regents of the University of Michigan promoted me to Associate Professor with tenure, effective September 1. It feels like yesterday that I arrived in my faculty office for the first time, and yet it also feels long ago. I appreciate so much the support of my colleagues and mentors. I also would not be here without my outstanding, curious, enthusiastic, and hard-working graduate students — they are incredible. Here is the letter that my dean sent to the provost to recommend me for promotion. I am looking forward to the next phase!