Elahe Naghib
Contact:
enaghib AT avantus DOT com
Bio
I am a Senior Research Scientist at Avantus.
From 2019 to 2022, I worked at Convoy as an Operations Research Scientist. I developed modern routing technologies in the intersection of classical Operations Research and Machine Learning. The main goal of the technology that my team built was to reduce inefficiencies in the trucking industry.
Before joining Convoy, I graduated from the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) at Princeton University in 2019. I received my B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2013.
The highlights of my carrier include:
Reducing the empty miles of truck routes, an equivalent of saving 2 trees per route at Convoy.
Developing an AI framework for automated telescope scheduling in graduate school at Princeton. The framework was funded by and adopted for LSST, a.k.a the telescope of the decade.
Traveling to many provinces of Iran for teaching creative problem solving and astronomy to underprivileged high school students before graduate school.
I lived in Karaj, Tehran, Princeton and currently I am based in Seattle. I enjoy Tango, Salsa, watercolor paining and reading bad novel series.
In the Media:
On phys.org, Princeton University News for an AI Telescope Scheduler.
(Spanish:) pdm.com
(Chinese:) petbyus.com
On Energy.gov, PPPL.gov. Breakout speaker of the Young Women’s Conference, March 2019.
BBCPersian.com, For a gold medal in the Astronomy Olympiad, Ukraine, 2007.
daijiworld.com. For a gold medal in the Astronomy Olympiad, India, 2006.
Honors and Awards
Avantus Inventor Award, 2023
Convoy's peer recognition award for Think Big and Team Work, 2021
Convoy's Innovator Award, 2020
Best Optimization Applications Award, Princeton Day of Optimization (70 submissions), 2018
Ph.D. Research Fellowship, from NSF fund for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, 2015-2016
Best B.S. Thesis Award, 2013
Iranian National Presidential Award of academic excellence, 2008 and 2012
Dean’s Honor Award, Sharif University, 2009
Undergraduate Scholarship Award, 2007-2013
International Astronomy Olympiad, 2007 Ukraine: Gold Medal, 2006 India: Gold Meda
Activities
Speaker and Panelist, CleanTech Career Academy for participants of diverse background, cohorts of 2022, 2023
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 Chair, Emerging Wireless Networks Conference, Sharif University, Tehran, 2011
Organization Team, International Olympiad in Astrophysics, Tehran, 2009