Incoming Assistant Professor @ NYU
I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society hosted by Cynthia Dwork. Starting in the fall of 2026, I will be an assistant professor of computer science and data science at NYU.
I will be actively looking for students and postdocs this upcoming application cycle (25'/26').Research Overview. My research focuses on the foundations of machine learning systems that make predictions or decisions about people. I organize my work around a mix of both theoretical and empirically driven directions. These include performative prediction and the study of prediction in resource allocation problems. My research in this last line of work won an Outstanding Paper Award at ICML 2025.
Interns Hosted: Unai Fischer-Abaigar
About. I earned my PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley, where I was co-advised by Peter Bartlett and Moritz Hardt, and my BA in CS and Math from Harvard.
I am from San Juan, Puerto Rico where I was on the national sailing team. I won youth world championships at the under-17, 19, and 21 levels and represented Puerto Rico at the 2015 Pan American Games. I also worked on the design team during Emirates Team New Zealand's winning campaign for the 35th America's Cup in Bermuda.
Contact. j.perdomo.silva[at]nyu.edu