Research Group

Current Group Members

Graduate Students

• Arnab Sarker (2019 -24)  Social and Engineering Systems PhD Program
• William Wang (2019 – 25) EECS PhD program, IDSS
• Haochuan Li (2019-  24) EECS PhD program,  co-advised by Professor Sasha Rakhlin
• Xinyi Wu (2021 – ) Social and Engineering Systems PhD program, IDSS
• Haoyuan Sun (2021 – )  EECS PhD program
• Kwangjun Ahn (2022 – ) EECS PhD Program, co-advised by Professor Suvrit Sra
• Daniel Pfrommer (2022 – ) EECS PhD program
• Vanessa Lin (2022- ) Social and Engineering Systems PhD program, IDSS 
• Mahyar Jafarinodeh (2023 – )  Social and Engineering Systems PhD program, IDSS 

Postdoctoral Scholars and Research Scientists

• Amir Ajorlou, Ph.D.,  (2016 – ) Research Scientist, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT
• Zak Mhammedi, PhD, (2021 – ) jointly supervised with Sasha Rakhlin
• Amirhossein Reisizadeh, PhD (2021 – ) , joint supervised with Asu Ozdaglar
• Jennifer Tang, PhD  (2022 – ) 
• Swati Padmanabhan (2023 – ) jointly supervised with Suvrit Sra
• Sean Sinclair (2023 – ) jointly supervised with Devavrat Shah

Visiting Students/Researchers

• Michael Scholkemper (Fall 2023), RWTH  Aachen
• Nathalie Northrup (Spring 2021) , UROP student, MIT CEE
• Henri Devillez, visiting student, Université Catholique de Louvain
• Philipp Koehler, visiting PhD student, University of Stuttgart
• Themis Charalampous, Assistant Professor, University of Alto, Finland

Group Alumni

Former Graduate Students

• Alex Stewart (jointly supervised by Prof. Dan Lee) (2006-2007), M.S., now a senior Engineer at Oxbotica
• Stamatina Lamprinakou (2013-2014), M.S., PhD student at Imperial College
• Ali Ahmadzadeh (2003-2008), PhD, Quantitative Strategist, Citadel Energy Marketing
• Nima Moshtagh (2003-2008), Ph.D., Senior Staff Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
• Nader Motee (2003-2007), Ph.D.,  Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University
• Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi (2004-2009), Ph.D.,  Professor of Managerial Economics, Kellogg School, Northwestern University
• Jaelynn Oh (Wharton OPIM) (2011-2013), Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Operations & Information Systems Department, David Eccles School of Business, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
• Pooya Molavi (2008-2013), Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics, Kellogg School,  Northwestern University
• Michael Zargham (2008-2014), Founder and CEO, Block Science
• Chinwendu Enyioha (2008-2014), Ph.D.,  Assistant professor, University of Central Florida
• Arastoo Fazeli (2008-2014),Ph.D.,  Founder, Index Level Trading LLC
• Shahin Shahrampour (2009-2015), PhD, Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University
• Saad Aleem (2013-2016 ), M.S., staff Engineer, Oracle
• Rasul Tutunov (CIS) (2011-2017), PhD,  Senior ML Researcher, Huawei R&D UK
• Hoda Heidari (CIS) (jointly supervised with Prof. Michael Kearns) (2011-2017), Assistant Professor of Machine Learning and Software, CMU
• Amin Rahimian (2012-2017),  Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
• Vassilis Tzoumas (2012-2018) Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
• Chulhee Yun (2016-2021) Assistant Professor, Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, KAIST 
• Jingzhao Zhang, (2017 – 2022) Assistant professor, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences,  Tsinghua University
• Paolo Bertolotti, (2017– 2022), Founder of a Fintech startup
• Chin-Chia Hsu, (2016-2022 ), Applied Scientist, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
• Juncal Arbelaiz Mugica (2018 -2022)  2022 Schmidt Science Fellow
• Amir Tohidi, (2017–2023 ) Postdoctoral Scholar at Penn with Prof.  Duncan Watts
• Manon Revel (2019 – ), Research Fellow at Berkman Klein Center for Inetrnet and Society, Harvard Law School

Former Postdoctoral Scholars

• Horia Mania, PhD, (2020-2022), jointly advised by Suvrit Sra and Devavrat Shah, now at Citadel, October 2022
• Farzan Farnia, (2019-2021), PhD,  Assistant professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 2021
• Rabih Salhab, Ph.D., (2019-2021), Research Staff,  Amazon 
• Anuran Makur, PhD , (2019-2021), Assistant professor of  Computer Science and ECE, Purdue University 
• César A. Uribe, (2018-2020), PhD, Assistant Professor, Rice University 
• Emma Tegling, (2020) PhD, , Assistant professor,  Lund University
• Michael Schaub (2017-19), PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science (tenure-track), RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Aryan Mokhtari (2017-19), Ph.D., Assistant Professor, ECE Department,  University of Texas, Austin
• Milad Siami, (2017-19), PhD., Assistant Professor, ECE Department,  Northeastern University, Boston
• Santiago Segarra (2016-2018), Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
• Ali Kakhbod (2012-2014),  Assistant professor of Finance, Rice University
• Alan Malek (2017-18), Data Scientist/Statistician, Optimizly
• Abubakr Muhammad (2006-2007), Professor of Electrical Engineering at Lahore University of Management Sciences
• Nader Motee (2007-2008), Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Lehigh University
• Usman Khan (2009-2010), Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University
• Victor Preciado (2008-2012), Associate Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
• Serban Sabau (2012-2013), (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2011), Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology