Completed and Ongoing Research

Ongoing Research:

• A. Khademi Conditional Gradient Method for Nonconvex Optimization

• A. Khademi Scenario Reduction Methods in Non-convex Robust Optimization Problems 

• A. Khademi, M. Daryalal Robust Optimization under Sparse Uncertainty 

• A. Khademi, F. Lara Quasar-Convexity

Submitted Works and Preprints:

• N. Nandhan, A. Khademi, A. Silveti-Falls (2026) Boosted Stochastic Frank-Wolfe for Constrained Nonconvex Optimization

• A. Khademi, A. Silveti-Falls (2025) Adaptive Conditional Gradient Descent

• A. Marandi, G.J. van Houtum, A. Khademi (2025) Multi-stage Adjustable Robust Location-transportation Problems with Integer-valued Demand 

Journal Articles:

• A. Khademi (2026) The Convexity Zoo: A Taxonomy of Function Classes in Optimization,
  Forthcoming in Optimization. 

• A. Khademi, A. Marandi (2025) Quadratic Optimization Through the Lens of Adjustable Robust Optimization,
  Forthcoming in INFORMS Journal on Computing.

• A. Khademi, A. Marandi, M. Soleimani-damaneh (2024) A New Dual-Based Cutting Plane Algorithm for Nonlinear Adjustable Robust Optimization,
  Journal of Global Optimization 89 (3), 559-595.

• A. Khademi, M. Soleimani-damaneh (2020) On Necessity of L-stationarity in Nonlinear Optimization with a Sparsity Constraint,
  Mathematical Researches 6 (3), 387-392.

Research Presentations:

• A. Khademi, M. Daryalal (2026) Robust Optimization Under Sparse Uncertainty,
  67th Annual Canadian Operational Research Society Conference (CORS 2026), Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. (Presented by M. Daryalal)

• A. Khademi, M. Daryalal (2026) Robust Optimization Under Sparse Uncertainty,
  2026 Optimization Days (JOPT 2026), HEC Montréal, Montréal, Canada. (Presented by M. Daryalal)

• A. Marandi, A. Khademi (2026) Quadratic Optimization Through the Lens of Adjustable Robust Optimization,
  2026 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference (IOS 2026), Atlanta, GA, USA. (Presented by A. Marandi)

• A. Khademi, A. Marandi (2025) Quadratic Optimization Through the Lens of Adjustable Robust Optimization,
  Robust Optimization Webinar (ROW). (Presented by A. Khademi)

• A. Khademi, A. Marandi (2024) Quadratic Optimization Through the Lens of Adjustable Robust Optimization,
  The 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2024), Montréal, Canada. (Presented by A. Marandi)

• A. Khademi, A. Marandi, M. Soleimani-damaneh (2023) A New Dual-Based Cutting Plane Algorithm for Nonlinear Adjustable Robust Optimization,
  SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23), Seattle, Washington, USA.

Thesis:

• A. Khademi (2024) Nonlinear Adjustable Robust Optimization