Maryam Aliakbarpour

Postdoctoral Research Associate

  • Statistical learning theory 
  • Differential privacy 
  • Property testing 
  • Sublinear algorithms  
  • PhD in Computer Science, MIT 
  • MS in Computer Science, MIT 
  • BS in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology 

Maryam Aliakbarpour is a postdoctoral research associate at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Aliakbarpour earned her bachelor’s in computer engineering from Sharif University of Technology, master’s in computer science from MIT, and her PhD in computer science from MIT. She works with Professor Jonathan Ullman studying statistical learning theory, differential privacy, property testing, and sublinear algorithms. She is a part of the Algorithms and Theory lab and the Cryptography and Privacy Research lab. 

Aliakbarpour has received the Neekeyfar Award from MIT and has been published in NeurIPS, ICML, COLT, ISIT, and ITCS.

Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a postdoctoral research associate at UMass Amherst hosted by Professor Andrew McGregor and a visiting participant in the Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions Program at Simons Institute at Berkeley. 

Outside of the lab, she enjoys hiking, watching movies, and spending time with her friends and family.