Received a Department of Energy (DOE) grant (PI, Budget: $400K), 2022-2024; an Office of Naval Research (ONR) grant (PI, Budget: $300K), 2022-2025; an NSF CAREER Award (Sole PI, Budget: $500K), 2020-2025; the 2020 Industrial Engineering & Management Faculty Award, OSU; the 2020 College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology Excellent Teacher Award, OSU; Best Theoretical Paper Award, the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC).
Research Experience
Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.
Education
Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013; M.S. and B.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2008 and 2006, respectively.
Background
Research interests include distributed optimization in multi-agent networks, stochastic and large-scale optimization, nonconvex optimization, hierarchical optimization, variational inequalities, and computational game theory. His work also involves applications in transportation systems and machine learning.
Miscellany
Member of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS).