I am an Assistant Professor in the Analytics and Operations Group at Imperial College Business School (ICBS), affiliated with the Imperial-X initiative on interdisciplinary AI/ML.
My research focuses on optimization, machine learning, statistics, and their application in business analytics. I am interested in broadening the scope of optimization to encompass problems that frequently arise in practice. For instance, in my PhD thesis, we proposed a generalization of integer optimization that tackles rank constraints, which arise in product recommendation applications. I am also interested in leveraging optimization to facilitate a rapid and economically viable transition to a low-carbon economy. For instance, we recently collaborated with OCP, a fertilizer manufacturer, to develop a framework that guides a two billion USD investment in solar panels and batteries.
I have received an IBM Herman Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-23), the Nicholson Prize (2020), the INFORMS Data Mining Society Student Paper Award (2021), the INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award (2019), and the INFORMS Health Applications Society Pierskalla Award (2020). I have also been a finalist in the 2023 M&SOM practice-based research competition.
Before joining ICBS, I spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at IBM Research (Cambridge, MA). I received my PhD in Operations Research from MIT in 2022, advised by Dimitris Bertsimas. Before joining MIT, I received a BE (1st class Hons) in Engineering Science from the University of Auckland.
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Revision, Nature Communications , with Bachir El Khadir, Cristina Cornelio, Sanjeeb Dash, and Lior Horesh
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Major Revision, INFORMS Journal on Computing , with Dimitris Bertsimas, Jean Pauphilet, and Periklis Petridis
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Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2023, with Dimitris Bertsimas and Vassilis Digalakis Jr.
Finalist, 2023 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Practice-Based Research Competition
Honorable Mention, 2023 MIT ORC Student Paper Competition (Digalakis)
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Journal of Machine Learning Research, 24(267):1-51, 2023, with Dimitris Bertsimas and Nicholas Johnson
First place, 2021 INFORMS Data Mining Student Paper Award
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Mathematical Programming, 202:47-92, 2023, with Dimitris Bertsimas and Jean Pauphilet
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Operations Research, 70(6):3321-3344, 2022, with Dimitris Bertsimas and Jean Pauphilet
First place, 2020 INFORMS George Nicholson Paper Award
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Journal of Machine Learning Research, 23(13):1-35, 2022, with Dimitris Bertsimas and Jean Pauphilet
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INFORMS Journal on Computing, 34(3): 1489-1511, 2022, with Dimitris Bertsimas
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SIAM Journal on Optimization, 31(3):2340-2367, 2021, with Dimitris Bertsimas and Jean Pauphilet
First place, 2019 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award
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Health Care Management Science, 24:253-272, 2021, with Dimitris Bertsimas et al.
First place, 2020 INFORMS Health Applications Society Pierskalla Paper Award
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Operations Research Letters, 48(3):376-384, 2020, with Golbon Zakeri
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Operations Research Letters, 48(1):78-85, 2020, with Dimitris Bertsimas
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Operations Research Letters, 46(1):116-121, 2018, with Andy Philpott and Golbon Zakeri
First place, 2016 ORSNZ Young Practitioner’s Prize
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Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2022
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Designed a new class which introduces machine learning in Python
Designed a new class, partly based on a pre-existing MSc class, which introduces computational problem-solving through the lens of algorithms and data structures in Python
Designed a new class introducing techniques for decision-making under uncertainty widely used in operations research. Includes stochastic optimization, robust optimization, and dynamic programming
Class which introduces students to theory and applications of linear, discrete, and nonlinear optimization