Meisam Razaviyayn is a postdoctoral research associate at Stanford University.  He received his PhD in 2014 from the electrical engineering department at the University of Minnesota. Razaviyayn was the recipient of  the signal processing society young author best paper award in 2014; and was the runner-up for the best paper prize for young researcher in continuous optimization in 2013. Razaviyayn's research interests include large scale optimization, machine learning, computational issues in wireless data communication, and statistical signal processing.