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Alex Dimakis
Full Professor, EECS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department, University of California, Berkeley
Joined
September 2017
Names
Alex Dimakis
(Preferred)
,
Alexandros G. Dimakis
Emails
****@austin.utexas.edu
(Confirmed)
,
****@gmail.com
(Confirmed)
,
****@usc.edu
(Confirmed)
,
****@berkeley.edu
(Confirmed)
Personal Links
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Career & Education History
Full Professor
EECS,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department, University of California, Berkeley
(eecs.berkeley.edu)
2025
–
Present
Full Professor
University of Texas at Austin
(utexas.edu)
2021
–
2024
Associate Professor
University of texas austin,
University of Texas, Austin
(utexas.edu)
2013
–
2021
Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
(usc.edu)
2009
–
2013
PhD student
Eecs,
University of California Berkeley
(berkeley.edu)
2003
–
2008
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisor
Martin Wainwright
2003
–
2008
PhD Advisor
Kannan Ramchandran
2003
–
2008
Expertise
Alignment and Post-Training
2022
–
Present
Data Curation
2021
–
Present
Generative Models
2015
–
Present
Inverse Problems
2015
–
Present
Compressed Sensing
2007
–
2017
Information Theory
2003
–
2017
Publications
optimize anything: A Unified Framework for LLM-Based Mathematical and Scientific Optimization
Lakshya A Agrawal
,
Donghyun Lee
,
Shangyin Tan
,
Wenjie Ma
,
Karim Elmaaroufi
,
Rohit Sandadi
,
Sanjit A. Seshia
,
Koushik Sen
,
Dan Klein
,
Ion Stoica
,
Joseph E. Gonzalez
,
Omar Khattab
,
Alex Dimakis
,
Matei Zaharia
ICML 2026 AI4Math Workshop Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Stochastic Collapse Environments: A Benchmark for Agentic AI Research
Advait Parulekar
,
Alex Dimakis
ACM CAIS 2026: RLEval Workshop Poster
Readers:
Everyone
optimize_anything: Unified Text Optimization can Outperform Specialized Systems
Lakshya A Agrawal
,
Donghyun Lee
,
Shangyin Tan
,
Wenjie Ma
,
Karim Elmaaroufi
,
Rohit Sandadi
,
Sanjit A. Seshia
,
Koushik Sen
,
Dan Klein
,
Ion Stoica
,
Joseph E. Gonzalez
,
Omar Khattab
,
Alex Dimakis
,
Matei Zaharia
ICML 2026 Workshop DL4C
Readers:
Everyone
When Attention Collapses: How Degenerate Layers in LLMs Enable Smaller, Stronger Models
Sunny Sanyal
,
Ravid Shwartz-Ziv
,
Alex Dimakis
,
sujay sanghavi
Accepted by TMLR
Readers:
Everyone
GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
Lakshya A Agrawal
,
Shangyin Tan
,
Dilara Soylu
,
Noah Ziems
,
Rishi Khare
,
Krista Opsahl-Ong
,
Arnav Singhvi
,
Herumb Shandilya
,
Michael J Ryan
,
Meng Jiang
,
Christopher Potts
,
Koushik Sen
,
Alex Dimakis
,
Ion Stoica
,
Dan Klein
,
Matei Zaharia
,
Omar Khattab
ICLR 2026 Oral
Readers:
Everyone
Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces
Mike A Merrill
,
Alexander Glenn Shaw
,
Nicholas Carlini
,
Boxuan Li
,
Harsh Raj
,
Ivan Bercovich
,
Lin Shi
,
Jeong Yeon Shin
,
Thomas Walshe
,
E. Kelly Buchanan
,
Junhong Shen
,
Guanghao Ye
,
Haowei Lin
,
Jason Poulos
,
Maoyu Wang
,
Marianna Nezhurina
,
Di Lu
,
Orfeas Menis Mastromichalakis
,
Zhiwei Xu
,
Zizhao Chen
et al. (64 additional authors not shown)
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models
Etash Kumar Guha
,
Ryan Marten
,
Sedrick Keh
,
Negin Raoof
,
Georgios Smyrnis
,
Hritik Bansal
,
Marianna Nezhurina
,
Jean Mercat
,
Trung Vu
,
Zayne Rea Sprague
,
Ashima Suvarna
,
Benjamin Feuer
,
Leon Liangyu Chen
,
Zaid Khan
,
Eric Frankel
,
Sachin Grover
,
Caroline Choi
,
Niklas Muennighoff
,
Shiye Su
,
Wanjia Zhao
et al. (31 additional authors not shown)
ICLR 2026 Oral
Readers:
Everyone
GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
Lakshya A Agrawal
,
Shangyin Tan
,
Dilara Soylu
,
Noah Ziems
,
Rishi Khare
,
Krista Opsahl-Ong
,
Arnav Singhvi
,
Herumb Shandilya
,
Michael J Ryan
,
Meng Jiang
,
Christopher Potts
,
Koushik Sen
,
Alex Dimakis
,
Ion Stoica
,
Dan Klein
,
Matei Zaharia
,
Omar Khattab
FoRLM 2025
Readers:
Everyone
OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models
Etash Kumar Guha
,
Ryan Marten
,
Sedrick Keh
,
Negin Raoof
,
Georgios Smyrnis
,
Hritik Bansal
,
Marianna Nezhurina
,
Jean Mercat
,
Trung Vu
,
Zayne Rea Sprague
,
Ashima Suvarna
,
Benjamin Feuer
,
Leon Liangyu Chen
,
Zaid Khan
,
Eric Frankel
,
Sachin Grover
,
Caroline Choi
,
Niklas Muennighoff
,
Shiye Su
,
Wanjia Zhao
et al. (30 additional authors not shown)
FoRLM 2025
Readers:
Everyone
Sample-Efficient Parametric Learning from Natural Language
Parth Asawa
,
Alex Dimakis
,
Matei Zaharia
CCFM Poster
Readers:
Everyone
View all 248 publications
Co-Authors
Aaron Gokaslan
Achal Dave
Adam Klivans
Aditya Akella
Aditya Grover
Aditya Vavre
Advait Parulekar
Afshin Rostamizadeh
Ahson Saiyed
Ajil Jalal
Akshay Anand
Alaaeldin El-Nouby
Alan C. Bovik
Alan Zhu
Aleksandar Bojchevski
Alex Fang
Alex Smola
Alexander Glenn Shaw
Alexander Ratner
Alexander T Toshev
Ali Farhadi
Alon Albalak
Ameet Talwalkar
Amin A. Gohari
Amin Karbasi
View all 441 co-authors