Research Group

PhD Students

Haixiang Zhang (PhD student in the Department of Mathematics) BS: Peking University, double major in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Research interests: Nonconvex optimization; online optimization; numerical analysis Website CV

Baturalp Yalcin BS: Bogazici University, Industrial Engineering Research interests: Optimization; learning theory; algorithm design and analysis CV

Donghao Ying BS: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Research interests: Optimization; learning theory; algorithmic game theory Website CV

Eli Brock (PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; co-advised with Prof. Sojoudi) BS: University of Pittsburgh, Electrical Engineering Research interests: Optimization; control theory; power systems CV

Jihun Kim BS: Seoul National University, Industrial Engineering and Statistics Research interests: Optimization; learning-based Control Website CV

Lucas Hyunin Lee (PhD student in Mechanical Engineering; co-advised with Prof. Sojoudi) BS: Seoul National University, Mechanical Engineering Research interests: Optimization; machine learning; networks CV

Ying Chen BS: Tsinghua University, Mathematics and Physics Research interests: Optimization; machine learning CV

Alumni

1. Salar Fattahi (PhD 2020, co-advised with Somayeh Sojoudi): Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

2. Ming Jin (Postdoc 2018-2020): Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech

3. Richard Zhang (Postdoc 2016-2019): Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4. Cedric Josz (Postdoc 2017-2019, co-mentored with Somayeh Sojoudi): Assistant Professor, Columbia University

5. Yu Zhang (Postdoc 2016-2017): Assistant Professor, University of California–Santa Cruz

6. SangWoo Park (PhD 2022): Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology

7. Igor Molybog (PhD 2022): Assistant Professor (to start in Fall 2023), University of Hawaii at Manoa

8. Ramtin Madani (PhD 2015, Columbia University): Associate Professor, University of Texas at Arlington

9. Abdulrahman Kalbat (PhD 2015, Columbia University): Assistant Professor, United Arab Emirates University

10. Yuhao Ding (PhD 2023)

11. Han Feng (PhD 2022): Applied Research Scientist at Flexport

12. Yingjie Bi (Postdoc 2020-2022): Software Engineer at Google

13. Julie Mulvaney-Kemp (PhD 2022): Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

14. Reza Mohammadi (Postdoc 2017-2019): Senior Research Scientist at BioSensics

15. Ali Yekkehkhany (Postdoc 2020-2021): Senior Analyst at Citibank

16. Hamid Mahboobi (Postdoc 2017-2018): Research Associate at Concordia University

17. Yi Ouyang (Postdoc 2017-2018, co-mentored with Pravin Varaiya): Researcher at Preferred Networks

18. Morteza Ashraphijuo (MS 2016, UC Berkeley): Data Scientist II at Uber

19. Ghazal Fazelnia (MS 2015, Columbia University): Research Scientist at Spotify