Associate Professor Negar Kiyavash holds a joint appointment in ISyE and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she was a Willett Faculty Scholar at the University of I Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and a joint associate professor in the industrial and enterprise engineering and electrical and computer engineering departments.

Her research interests are in statistical learning with emphasis on design and analysis of algorithms for network inference. She is a recipient of NSF CAREER and AFOSR YIP awards and UIUC’s College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research.

She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in ECE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003 and 2006, respectively. She earned her B.S. in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in 1999.