His research lies at the intersection of learning theory, large-scale networks, and optimum information processing. From 2013 until 2014, he was a post-doctoral scholar in the learning and adaptive systems group at ETHZ. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL in 2012. Dr. Karbasi is the recipient of the ETH research fellowship grant (2013), winner of the Patrick Denantes memorial prize (2013) for the best Ph.D. thesis in the school of computer and communication sciences at EPFL, co-recipient of ICASSP best student paper award (2011), co-recipient of ACM SIGMETRICS best student paper award (2010), and the runner-up for ISIT best student paper award (2010).