Afrooz Jalilzadeh
Assistant Professor

Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering
The University of Arizona

Welcome to my website!

I am an assistant professor at the University of Arizona, Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering. I am also a member of the Applied Mathematics GIDP and Statistics & Data Science GIDP. My research is focused on designing, analyzing, and implementing stochastic approximation methods for solving (non)convex optimization and stochastic variational inequality problems with applications in machine learning, game theory, healthcare, and power systems.

Check our lab website for open positions:
https://sites.arizona.edu/afrooz/

Education

Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, The Pennsylvania State University
B.S. degree in Mathematics and Applications, The University of Tehran

Contact Information

Email: afrooz[at]arizona[dot]edu
Tel: 520-621-2342
127 E. James E. Rogers Way, Tucson, AZ 85721-0020
Office Location: Engineering 318B

Top News

August 2025: Received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.
January 2025: Morteza Boroun successfully defended his dissertation on "Projection-free and Accelerated Methods for Constrained Optimization and Saddle-point Problems".
April 2024: Received the Gerald J. Swanson Prize for Teaching Excellence, University of Arizona.
July 2023: Awarded an NSF grant: "Generalized Stochastic Nash Equilibrium Framework: Theory, Computation, and Application".
April 2022: Awarded Teacher of the Year-- College of Engineering, University of Arizona.

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