Maksim Y. Melnichenko

RandNLA researcher.

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley Department of Statistics, with a joint appointment in the International Computer Science Institute. My specialization is Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra.
In December 2025, I earned my PhD in computer science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where I was advised by Dr. Jack Dongarra.

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Nov 18, 2025 If you plan on attending the SC25 conference, come join my BoF session on RandNLA software!
Oct 03, 2025 I am excited to announce that on January 2nd, 2026, I will be starting my postdoc appointment at ICSI and UC Berkeley Department of Statistics, working under supervision of Dr. Michael Mahoney.
Sep 30, 2025 I successfully defended my Ph.D dissertation titled “Responsible Recklessness: Why High Performance Computing Must Embrace Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra.”