Yusuf Kalayci, a fourth Year PhD student at the University of Southern California's Department of Computer Science, is part of the Theory Group. He earned his B.S. in computer science and mathematics in 2019 from Bogazici University in Turkey and is an IOI gold medalist from 2013. His research interests span the breadth of theoretical computer science, focusing on the design and analysis of algorithms. Specifically, his work emphasises computational social choice, decision-making under uncertainty, and, most recently, the theory of machine learning.