Sami H. Assaf

Professor of Mathematics

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Education

• Ph. D. Mathematics, University of California Berkeley, 2007
• B.A. Honors Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2001

Academic Appointments

• 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

Selected Publications

• 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.

Curriculum Vitae