Farzad Yousefian
Scholar

Farzad Yousefian

Google Scholar ID: N9pIpQQAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Rutgers University
Distributed optimizationStochastic optimizationVariational inequalitiesConvex optimization
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
735
 
H-index
15
 
i10-index
20
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
16
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 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).