Sepehr Assadi is an Associate Professor and Faculty of Mathematics Research Chair in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 and subsequently held positions as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University and an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University before joining the University of Waterloo in 2023. His research focuses on theoretical computer science, particularly algorithm design and complexity theory for modern models of computation. He is on the editorial boards of the Theory of Computing and Algorithmica journals and has been the program committee co-chair of the Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2026) and the Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA 2026) and the program chair for the Workshop on Local Algorithms (WOLA 2026). He is a recipient of several awards including the Presburger Award, Sloan Fellowship, Google Research Scholar Award, NSF CAREER, NSERC Discovery Grant, EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award, ACM-EATCS Principles of Distributed Computing Dissertation Award, and several best paper awards at theoretical computer science conferences including STOC, SODA, SOSA, SPAA, DISC, and WINE.