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Nick Harvey

Also known as Nicholas Harvey

Nick Harvey is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, where he directs the MILD research cluster. His research interests include the theory of machine learning and randomized algorithms. He completed a PhD at MIT in 2008 on matchings, matroids and submodular functions, and then held posts at Microsoft Research New England, the University of Waterloo and UBC. He won the Best Student Paper Award at FOCS 2006 and received a 2013 Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2018 he shared the NeurIPS Best Paper Award for work on learning mixtures of Gaussians.

Works
94
Citations
3,318
h-index
26

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2006

    A FOCS best student paper

    He wins the Best Student Paper Award at FOCS 2006.

  2. 2008

    An MIT doctorate on matchings

    He completes his PhD at MIT in 2008, with a dissertation on matchings, matroids and submodular functions.

  3. 2008–2011

    Postdoc, then assistant professor

    He is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England from 2008 to 2009, and an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo from 2009 to 2011.

  4. 2011–2012

    A Canada Research Chair at UBC

    He joins UBC as an assistant professor in 2011, and in 2012 he is appointed Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design.

  5. 2013

    A Sloan Research Fellowship

    He receives the 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.

  6. 2018

    A NeurIPS 2018 best paper

    He shares the NeurIPS 2018 Best Paper Award for work on learning mixtures of Gaussians.

  7. As of October 2026

    Professor at UBC

    He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at UBC, and he directs the Mathematics of Information, Learning and Data (MILD) research cluster. His research interests include the theory of machine learning, randomized algorithms and convex optimization.

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  1. Nick Harvey simons.berkeley.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Matchings, matroids and submodular functions dspace.mit.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Nicholas Harvey Appointed New Canada Research Chair | Computer Science at UBC cs.ubc.ca. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. NeurIPS 2018 Best Paper Award | Computer Science at UBC cs.ubc.ca. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Awards neurips.cc. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. CS Professor Nick Harvey & PhD Student Christopher Liaw win NeurIPS 2018 Best Paper Award | Computer Science at UBC cs.ubc.ca. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. Faculty | Computer Science at UBC cs.ubc.ca. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. Dr. Nick Harvey - The University of British Columbia cs.ubc.ca. Checked 15 October 2026.