Summary

I received a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) of Princeton University in 2019. I received my B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, in 2013. 

During my first two years in ORFE I worked on developing a scheduler for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in collaboration with the DIRAC Institute, University of Washington. I also worked on Fourier Constrained Optimization (FCO) problems, under the supervision of my advisor Prof. Robert Vanderbei. 

[Ph.D. Thesis] [CV]

Research Interests

High dimensional optimization, Decision Making, Scheduling, Machine Learning, Stochastic Optimization, Evolutionary Computation, and Astronomy.

Invited Talks and Presentations

• East Coast Optimization Meeting - George Mason University. April 5, 2019

• Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences - NYU. September 18, 2018

• Bell Labs, Theory Seminar. September 6, 2018

• IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Cryptography Seminar. August 8, 2018

• SIAM Annual meeting, Portland, OR. July 13, 2018 [abstract][slides in ppt]

• Young Researchers Workshop on Data-Driven Decision Making [slides in pdf] [slides in ppt]

Cornell's school of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Ithaca, NY, October 2017

• Amazon’s 2017 Graduate Research Symposium, Seattle, WA.

• Joint Technical Meeting, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Los Angeles, CA. March 2017 [slides in pdf] [slides in ppt]

• All hands meeting, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Bremerton, WA. August 2015 [slides in pdf][slides in ppt]

Publications

• A Framework for Telescope Schedulers: With Applications to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope [Publisher's version]

Elahesadat Naghib, Peter Yoachim, Robert J. Vanderbei, Andrew J. Connolly

Astronomical Journal (AJ), volume 157, number 4.

• Feature-based telescope scheduler [Publisher's version]

Elahesadat Naghib, Robert Vanderbei, Christopher Stubbs

SPEI 7th conference on the observatory operations. Edinburgh, Scotland: 9910, 2016

• Entropic Differential Evolution [Publisher's version]

Elahesadat Naghib, Amin Nobakhti

American Control Conference. Boston, USA, 2016

• Creative problem Solving in Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad [Book Chapters in Farsi]

Elahesadat Naghib, and Amir Sadatmousavi

Teaching

• Guest instructor of undergraduate optimization course (ORF 307)

• Teaching Assistant in Operations and Information Engineering (ORF 411)

• Teaching Assistant in Optimization (ORF 307) 

• Teaching Assistant in Fundamentals of Statistics (ORF 245) 

Some of the student's evaluation comments: 

"Precepts varied - I had several different preceptors including Elahe, [...] I had all of them honestly and so did a lot of the evening precepts so you'll probably get strange feedback from students. Loved Elahe - she's incredible. "

"The preceptor was very important for my learning of the course material. During the precepts, the preceptor frequently asked us if we had any questions and tried her best to make sure that we were all on the same page. In addition, she explained the information very clearly and slowed down or sped up depending on where the class was at."

"The preceptor illustrated the material we had learnt in lectures and clarified students doubts about the material. She was very helpful and event stayed after the precepts to help students out."

"She is a wonderful preceptor and is the best ever at explaining difficult concepts."

"Elahe (preceptor) was amazing and a huge help throughout [coding the final project]."

"The precepts were often helpful, and Elahe always went late so she could cover more material and answer questions."

Service

• Organized a session of INFORMS Annual Meeting, Huston | October 2018

  • Title: Specialized interior point solvers and models

• Organized a session of the annual MOPTA conference, Lehigh University, Bethlehem | August 2018

  • Title: Infinite Dimensional LP with Applications to Sphere Packing

• Reviewer for

  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Journal 

  • Optimization and Engineering Journal 

Activities

• Speaker and Panelist, Young Women’s Conference (YWC), Princeton University, March 2019

• ORFE graduate student board member, 2017-present

• Member of the SEAS Campus Climate Committee, 2017-present

• Organization team member, INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, 2016

• Organization Team Member, New York City girls computer science and engineering conference, 2016

• Student Proctor, Princeton University Mathematics Competition (PUMaC), 2015

• Student Chair, Sharif Open Robotics Competition, Sharif University, Tehran, 2013 

• Student Chair, Emerging Wireless and Mobile Communication Networks Conference, Sharif University, Tehran, 2011

• Organization Team member, International Olympiad in Astrophysics, Tehran, 2009