Sami H. Assaf

Professor of Mathematics

Gabilan Distinguished Professor
of Science and Engineering

Director of Graduate Studies

Contact information

EMAIL : shassaf@usc.edu
OFFICE : KAP 438C
PHONE : (213) 740-2440
MAILING ADDRESS :
Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90089-2532
United States of America

• Ph. D. Mathematics, University of California Berkeley, 2007
• B.A. Honors Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2001
• North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, 1997

• Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern California, 2022–present
• Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern California, 2019–2022
• Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern California, 2012–2019
• CLE Moore Instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008–2011
• NSF Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania, 2007 — 2008

• Sami Assaf, Nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials and a refinement of Kostka–Foulkes polynomials, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 370 (2018), no. 12, 8777–8796
• Sami Assaf and Dominic Searles, Schubert polynomials, slide polynomials, Stanley symmetric functions and quasi-Yamanouchi pipe dreams, Adv. in Math. 306 (2017), 89–122.
• Sami Assaf, Dual equivalence graphs I: A new paradigm for Schur positivity, Forum Math. Sigma 3 (2015), e12, 33 pp.
• Sami Assaf, Persi Diaconis, and K. Soundararajan, A rule of thumb for riffle shuffles, Ann. Appl. Probab. 21 (2011), no. 3, 843–875.