Alireza Fallah

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rice University and a member of the Ken Kennedy Institute. In Spring 2026, I will be visiting the Simons Institute at UC Berkeley as an Apple Fellow for the “Federated and Collaborative Learning” program.

Prior to joining Rice University, I was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, hosted by Michael Jordan. In the summer 2023, I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where I worked with Asu Ozdaglar and Daron Acemoglu. I spent Fall 2023 as the Gamelin Postdoctoral Fellow at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (formerly MSRI), where I was a member of the Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design program.

My research interests lie in the span of machine learning theory, market and mechanism design, game theory, optimization, and responsible AI (privacy and fairness). My research integrates insights from all these areas to address the complex challenges arising from the interaction between ML algorithms and human behavior.

My Ph.D was generously supported by the Apple Scholar s in AI/ML PhD fellowship, the MathWorks Engineering Fellowship, and the Siebel Scholarship. I spent summer 2020 as a research intern at Apple ML Privacy team. Before going to MIT, I earned a dual B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Sharif University of Technology.

Here are links to my CV and my Google Scholar.

AVAILABLE POSITIONS

Ph.D. Positions: I am actively recruiting Ph.D. students for the upcoming application cycle to begin in Fall 2026. If you are interested in working with me, please apply to the Rice Computer Science Ph.D. program and mention my name in your application.

If you are currently a graduate student at Rice, feel free to email me directly!

Undergraduate Positions: If you are a Rice undergraduate interested in working on a research project, feel free to reach out!

AVAILABLE POSITIONS

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