Amin Rahimian

Amin Rahimian joined Pitt IE as an assistant professor in the fall of 2020. Prior to that, he was a postdoc with joint appointments at MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and MIT Sloan School of Management. He received his PhD in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and Master’s in Statistics from Wharton School. Broadly speaking his works are at the intersection of networks, data, and decision sciences. He borrows tools from applied probability, statistics, algorithms, as well as decision and game theory. Some of his current focus is on the challenges of inference and intervention design in complex, large-scale sociotechnical systems, with applications ranging from online social networks, public health, e-commerce and collective decision/action platforms to modern civilian cyberinfrastructure and future battlefields. He is especially interested in the critical role that information plays in the operation of sociotechnical institutions and its societal implications, including diversity, fairness, and privacy. At Pitt, he leads the sociotechnical systems research lab and teaches courses on stochastic processes, design of experiments, statistics and a new engineering elective on “Data for Social Good (IE 1171)” that he has developed through the Pitt Year of Data and Society Initiative.