Honors & Awards

Salar Fattahi/Honors & Awards


  1. Recipient of North Campus Dean’s MLK Spirit Award, 2024.

  2. Recipient of NSF CAREER award, 2023.

  3. INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition – Second Place, 2023.
    for the paper: On the Optimization Landscape of Burer-Monteiro Factorization: When do Global Solutions Correspond to Ground Truth?

  4. INFORMS Data Mining Best Student Paper Competition – Finalist (as a co-author), 2023.
    for the paper: Heterogeneous Matrix Factorization: When Features Differ by Datasets

  5. Murty Best Paper Prize (as a mentor), 2023.
    for the paper: Blessing of Depth in Linear Regression: Deeper Models Have Flatter Landscape Around the True Solution

  6. INFORMS Computing Society Best Student Paper Prize – Runner Up Prize (as a co-author), 2022.
    for the paper: A Graph-based Decomposition Method for Convex Quadratic Optimization with Indicators

  7. Outstanding Reviewer Award, NeurIPS, 2021.

  8. INFORMS ENRE Best Student Paper Award (as a co-author), 2020.
    for the paper: Smoothing Property of Load Variation Promotes Finding Global Solutions of Time-Varying Optimal Power Flow

  9. Outstanding Student Paper Award of of the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 2020.
    for the paper: Absence of Spurious Local Trajectories in Time-Varying Optimization: A Control-Theoretic Perspective

  10. Best-of-the-Best Conference Paper Award of the 2020 Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 2020.
    for the paper: Load Variation Enables Escaping Poor Solutions of Time-Varying Optimal Power Flow

  11. IEOR Faculty Fellowship Award, 2019.
    UC Berkeley

  12. INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Award, 2018.
    for the paper: Graphical Lasso and Thresholding: Equivalence and Closed-form Solutions

  13. Finalist for American Control Conference Best Paper Award, 2018.
    for the paper: Closed-Form Solution and Sparsity Path for Inverse Covariance Estimation Problem

  14. Katta G. Murty Best Paper Award, 2018.
    for the paper: Graphical Lasso and Thresholding: Equivalence and Closed-form Solutions

  15. Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2017.
    UC Berkeley

  16. Marshall-Oliver-Rosenberger Fellowship Award, 2017.
    UC Berkeley

  17. Best Reviewer Award, 2016.
    IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

  18. Armstrong Fellowship Award, 2014.
    Columbia University