Parnian Kassraie

Bio

I am a 3rd year doctoral student in Computer Science at ETH Zurich, fortunate to be advised by Andreas Krause and Peter Bühlmann. I am currently interning at Google DeepMind, where I am hosted by Olivier Bachem. Previously, I was an intern at Apple MLR with Marco Cuturi. I am interested in statistics, optimization, and learning theory, often in the context of sequential decision-making and reinforcement learning.

I completed my M.Sc. at ETH, under the supervision of Andreas Krause and Fanny Yang, with a thesis on Contextual Neural Bandits. Before coming to ETH, I did a dual B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Sharif University of Technology. My thesis was on Visualizing Adversarial Attacks on Convolutional Neural Networks, which I wrote with Nassir Navab and Federico Tombari at TU Munich.

News

• [Oct-24] Recieved a G-Research PhD Prize in Mathematics.
• [Sep-24] Was awarded a Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Machine Intelligence. [ETH media]
• [Aug-24] Finished my internship at Apple MLR (Paris) with a short talk on my project, Progressive Entropic OT.
• [Mar-24] Was awarded the ETH Doc.Mobility Fellowship, for a research visit with Aaditya Ramdas.
• [Nov-23] Instance-Dependent Generalization Bounds via OT to appear in JMLR.
• [Jun-23] Serving as the head teaching assistant for Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence.
• [Jun-21] Started a PhD.