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Mateo Díaz received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 2021, followed by a postdoctoral appointment in Computing and Mathemtical Sciences at Caltech, 2021-2023. He joined the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University in 2023. Mateo’s work focuses on the interplay between continuous optimization, statistics, and geometry and its applications to signal processing, data science and machine learning. He has received a number of awards, including the Beale—Orchards-Hay Prize, NSF CAREER, and NSF Mathematical Foundations of AI.