People

Faculty

Ahmet Alacaoglu Mathematics Continuous optimization, first-order methods

Michael Friedlander Computer Science Continuous optimization, numerical methods, convex and variational analysis

Nick Harvey Computer Science Randomization, algorithms, learning theory, combinatorial optimization, convex optimization

Jiajin Li Sauder School of Business Continuous optimization, algorithm theory

Philip Loewen Mathematics Variational analysis, optimal control

Joe Paat Sauder School of Business Discrete optimization, algorithms

Akshay Ramachandran Computer Science Optimization, algorithms

Mark Schmidt Computer Science Machine learning, continuous optimization

Bruce Shepherd Computer Science Discrete and combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics

Christos Thrampoulidis Electrical and Computer Engineering Machine learning theory, high-dimensional statistics, deep learning

Current Students & Postdocs

Tina Behnia (PhD)

Matthew Buchholz (PhD)

Jeffrey Dawson (MSc)

Wenlong Deng (PhD)

Puneesh Deora (PhD)

Chen Fan (PhD)

Donney Fan (PhD)

Curtis Fox (PhD)

Shaul Francus (PhD, 2024–)

Emily Gong (MSc, 2022–)

Dylan Green (PhD)

Grace Guo (PhD, 2024–)

Ziyan He (PhD)

Jonas Jager (PhD, 2022–)

Hasti Karimi (MSc, 2024–)

Yunxiang Li (PhD)

Michael Liu (MSc, 2022–)

Armaan Lotfalikhani (MSc)

Sadegh Mahdavi (PhD)

Mohammad Moshtaghi (MSc)

Joseph Poremba (PhD, 2022–)

Yabing Qi (PhD, 2024–)

Amrutha Varshini Ramesh (PhD)

Nicholas Richardson (PhD, 2022–)

Betty Shea (PhD)

Abner Turkieltaub (PhD, 2020–)

Vala Vakilian (PhD)

Chenhao Yang (MSc)

Yennis Ye (PhD, 2024–)

Yize Zhao (PhD)

Alumni

Mohamed Ahmed (PhD)

Saeid Allahdadian (Postdoc)

Sanae Amani (MSc, –2020)

Alexandr Aravkin (Postdoc, 2010–2012)

Reza Babanezhad (PhD)

Casie Bao (MSc, 2017–2019)

Ewout van den Berg (PhD, 2006–2009)

Marco Caoduro (Postdoc, 2022–2024)

Ricky Chen (MSc)

Mitch Crowe (MSc, 2008–2010)

Evan DeCorte (Postdoc, 2016–2018)

Zachary Drudi (MSc, 2013–2014)

Benjamin Dubois-Taine (MSc)

Ernie Esser (Postdoc, 2014–2014)

Zhenan Fan (PhD, 2018–2022)

Huang Fang (PhD, 2017–2021)

Marisol Garrido (MSc, 2006–2008)

Rouzbeh Ghaderi (MSc, –2024)

Mehrdad Ghadiri (MSc, 2018–2019)

Jaidev Gill (BSc, –2024)

Gabriel Goh (PhD, 2012–2017)

Naomi Graham (PhD, 2020–2025)

Bingshan Hu (Postdoc)

Will Van Hying (MSc, –2020)

Halyun Jeong (Postdoc, 2019–2021)

Bahbru Joshi (Postdoc, 2019–2021)

Adam Jozefiak (MSc, 2020–2022)

Hamed Karimi (Postdoc)

Sean Kennedy (PhD, –2010)

Kamyar Khodamoradi (Postdoc, 2022–2023)

Ganesh R. Kini (PhD, –2024)

Mia Kramer (MSc, 2020–2022)

Nathan Krislock (Postdoc, 2012–2013)

Yao Kuang (MSc, 2023–2025)

Frederik Kunstner (PhD)

Lironne Kurzman (MSc)

Issam Laradji (PhD)

Jonathan Wilder Lavington (PhD)

Liran Li (MSc, 2017–2019)

Chris Liaw (PhD, 2015–2020)

Wu Lin (PhD)

Ives Macedo (PhD, 2011–2015)

Liam Madden (Postdoc)

Hassan Mansour (Postdoc, 2010–2012)

Rebecca McKnight (MSc, 2014–2015)

Si Yi Meng (MSc)

Alan Milligan (MSc)

Aaron Mishkin (MSc)

Atefeh Mohajeri (PhD, 2008–2014)

Julie Nutini (PhD)

Neil Olver (PhD, 2007–2010)

Orestis Paraskevas (MSc, –2022)

Ting Kei Pong (Postdoc, 2013–2014)

Victor Portella (PhD, 2019–2024)

Michael Przystupa (MSc)

Yasha Pushak (PhD)

Iliad Ramezani (MSc, 2019–2021)

Sikander Randhawa (MSc, 2018–2020)

Emmanuel Sales (MSc, 2020–2022)

Samira Samadi (MSc, 2012–2014)

Mark Schmidt (Postdoc, 2009–2010)

Behrooz Sepehry (MSc)

Alireza Shafaei (PhD)

Shidong Shan (MSc, 2006–2008)

Jelena Sirovljevic (MSc, 2006–2007)

Yifan Sun (Postdoc, 2018–2019)

Hossein Taheri (PhD, –2024)

Richard Santiago Torres (PhD, 2015–2019)

Sharan Vaswani (PhD)

Ke Wang (PhD, –2022)

Noah Weninger (MSc, 2019–2021)

Aaron Williams (Postdoc, 2011–2013)

Tianyue Zhang (MSc)

Joey Zhou (MSc, 2019–2020)

Nasim Zolaktaf (PhD)