Andrea Montanari

Andrea Montanari received a Laurea degree in Physics in 1997, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2001, both from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (LPTENS) in Paris, and at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley. In 2002, he became a Chargé de Recherche with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at LPTENS. In September 2006, he joined the faculty of the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University. He was co-awarded the ACM SIGMETRICS Best Paper Award in 2008. He also received the CNRS bronze medal for theoretical physics in 2006, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2008, and an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2013.

Program Visits

Geometric Methods in Optimization and Sampling, Fall 2021, Visiting Scientist

Computational Complexity of Statistical Inference, Fall 2021, Visiting Scientist

Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions, Fall 2020, Visiting Scientist

Foundations of Data Science, Fall 2018, Visiting Scientist and Program Organizer

Counting Complexity and Phase Transitions, Spring 2016, Visiting Scientist

Information Theory, Spring 2015, Visiting Scientist