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📢 Summer 2026

Selected as a TARGET Graduate Mentor for the TARGET VI Program at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. I will lead a project titled “Can Artificial Intelligence Help People Make Better Decisions?”, introducing high school students to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven decision making through hands-on activities and real-world applications. 

📢 May 2026

Started an industry collaboration with Americo Energy Resources as a Data Scientist – Industry Project Consultant, developing machine learning and explainable AI methods for forecasting operational anomalies in oil and gas wells.

📢 December 2025

I presented my research in the Center for Control Science and Technology (CCST) Seminar Series in University of Texas at Dallas.

Title: Fast Methods with Guarantees for Equilibrium Selection in Nash Games and Solution Selection in Optimization

   • Center for Control Science and Technology (CCST) Seminar Series  (Invited Talk),  November 2025
     University of Texas at Dallas

 📅 Monday, December 1, 2025

  🕓 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

 📍Engineering & Computer Science South 2.410 

 🔗Abstract: View 

📢 November 2025

I presented my research in the ISE seminar series in Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University–New Brunswick.

Title: Fast Methods with Guarantees for Equilibrium Selection in Nash Games and Solution Selection in Optimization

   • Rutgers University, ISE Seminar Series (Invited Talk),  November 2025
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

 📅 Wednesday, November 19, 2025

  🕓 12:10 PM – 1:10 PM

 📍Hill Center - Room 116  

 🔗Abstract: View 

📢 October 2025

Session: Federated Learning and Optimization II

Title: On Iteratively Regularized First-Order Methods for Simple Bilevel Optimization 

📅 Tuesday, October 28, 2025

🕓 8 AM – 9:15 AM 

📍 Building B Level 2 B202 

🔗Abstract: View 

📢 July 2025

I presented Improved Guarantees for Optimal Nash Equilibrium Seeking and Bilevel Variational Inequalities at the 8th International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT) in Los Angeles, CA.

📅 Wednesday, July 23, 2025

🕓 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM PDT

📍 Taper Hall (THH) 116, USC

You can find details of the session here.

📢 Jun 2025 

I successfully passed my Ph.D. proposal defense. Many thanks to my committee members for their valuable feedback and support: Dr. Farzad Yousefian (Advisor), Dr. Hoang Pham, Dr. Ahmed Aziz Ezzat, and Dr. Daniel Burbano. 

📢 October 2024

Presented Improved Guarantees for Optimal Nash Equilibrium Seeking and Bilevel Variational Inequalities at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ.

📢 July 2024

Presented Achieving Optimal Complexity Guarantees for a Class of Bilevel Convex Optimization Problems at the American Control Conference (ACC) in Toronto, Canada, Online Presentation.

📢 June 2023

Presented An Incremental Gradient Method for Optimization Problems with Variational Inequality Constraints at the SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23) in Seattle, WA, Minisymposium Presentation.

📢 October 2023

Also presented An Incremental Gradient Method for Optimization Problems with Variational Inequality Constraints at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ.