Research Group

PhD Students

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

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

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. Haixiang Zhang (PhD 2024)

11. Yuhao Ding (PhD 2023)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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