Research Group

PhD Students

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

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

Charles Philip Gulian BS: Johns Hopkins University, Applied Mathematics & Statistics Research interests: Optimization; machine learning; power systems CV

Aoxi Li BS: University of California–Los Angeles, Mathematics Research interests: Optimization; machine learning CV

Liyuan Liang BS: Peking University, Mathematics Research interests: Non-convex optimization; decentralized learning; machine learning; reinforcement learning CV

Junyu Guo BS: Tsinghua University, Mathematics Research interests: Optimization; learning theory; sequential decision making Website CV

Yuchen Fang (PhD student in Applied Mathematics; co-advised with Prof. James Demmel) MS: University of Chicago, Computational and Applied Mathematics BS: Xiamen University, Statistics Research interests: Optimization; machine learning; statistics; high-performance computing Website 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. Donghao Ying (PhD 2025)

11. Baturalp Yalcin (PhD 2025)

12. Haixiang Zhang (PhD 2024)

13. Yuhao Ding (PhD 2023)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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