Bio

Santiago Segarra received the B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering with highest honors (Valedictorian) from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Argentina, in 2011, the M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), Philadelphia, in 2014 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering from Penn in 2016. From September 2016 to June 2018, he was a postdoctoral research associate with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined Rice University in 2018 as an Assistant Professor and, since July 2024, Dr. Segarra is a W. M. Rice Trustee Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. He also holds courtesy appointments in the Departments of Computer Science and Statistics. His research interests include network theory, data analysis, machine learning, and graph signal processing. Dr. Segarra received the 2011 Outstanding Graduate Award granted by the National Academy of Engineering of Argentina, the 2017 Penn’s Joseph and Rosaline Wolf Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Electrical and Systems Engineering, the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2021 Rice’s School of Engineering Research + Teaching Excellence Award, three early career awards (NSF CAREER, ARO ECP, and ARI Early Career), and five best conference paper awards. Since 2022, he has dedicated part of his time consulting for Microsoft Research.