Maryam received her MS and PhD in EE from Stanford University, her BS from Sharif University of Technology in Iran, and was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech prior to joining UW. Her research interests are broad, centered at mathematical optimization, including convex optimization theory and algorithms, low-rank matrix methods, and applications in machine learning, signal processing, and control systems. She is a recipient of the NSF Career Award (2009), the UW EE Outstanding Teaching Award (2009), and the UAI (Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence) conference Best Student Paper Award (2014), and coauthored a paper selected as a Fast-Breaking paper by Science Watch (2011) on the problem of low-rank matrix recovery.