Arian Maleki is a professor in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University. Arian’s research interests include high-dimensional statistics, computational imaging, machine learning, and compressed sensing. Prior to his work at Columbia, Arian was a postdoctoral scholar at Rice University. He received his PhD from Stanford University, completing a dissertation on the “approximate message passing for compressed sensing”. His BSc degree in Electrical Engineering was completed at Sharif University in Tehran, Iran.