Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Aleksandr Aravkin serves as the Director of Mathematical Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation since January 2019 and also leads the Mathematical Sciences and Computational Algorithms team. At the University of Washington, Aleksandr has held the position of Associate Professor in the Applied Math Department since August 2015, with additional roles as an adjunct professor in various departments, including Computer Science and Statistics. Aleksandr is also the founder of Perceptron Consulting, LLC, and has previously worked as a Research Staff Member at IBM and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. Academic qualifications include a PhD in Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Statistics, both earned from the University of Washington.
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.