Focus Period Lund 2026
Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Jason Altschuler is Assistant Professor at UPenn in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, and by courtesy also the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Applied Mathematics. Previously, he received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and his PhD from MIT. He is the recipient of a Sloan Fellowship in Mathematics, the ICS Prize for the best papers at the interface of computer science and operations research, the MIT Sprowls Dissertation Award, the Mathematical Optimization Society’s Tucker Finalist Prize, and Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Awards. His research interests lie at the interface of optimization, probability, and machine learning, with a focus on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms.