Aleksandr Aravkin

Aleksandr Aravkin serves as the Director of Mathematical Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation since January 2019 and also leads the Mathematical Sciences and Computational Algorithms team. At the University of Washington, Aleksandr has held the position of Associate Professor in the Applied Math Department since August 2015, with additional roles as an adjunct professor in various departments, including Computer Science and Statistics. Aleksandr is also the founder of Perceptron Consulting, LLC, and has previously worked as a Research Staff Member at IBM and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. Academic qualifications include a PhD in Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Statistics, both earned from the University of Washington.