Hassan Ashtiani

Hassan Ashtiani joined the Department of Computing and Software at McMaster University in 2018 as an Assistant Professor. He is also a faculty affiliate at Vector institute. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2018 from University of Waterloo where he was advised by Shai Ben-David. Before that, he received his master's degree in AI and Robotics and his bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, both from University of Tehran. Broadly speaking, a major theme in his research is the design and analysis of sample-efficient learning methods that are robust to (i) privacy-related attacks, (ii) model misspecification, (iii) adversarial attacks, and/or (iv) distribution shift.