Pouya Sampourmahani

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University. My current research is focused on the theory of linear and conic optimization and developing, analyzing, and implementing classical and quantum optimization algorithms for these problems. Besides that, my research area expands to application of operations research in air transportation and healthcare.

I am working under the supervision of Prof. Tamás Terlaky. I am a member of the Quantum Computing and Optimization Lab. (QCOL) at Lehigh University.

Here is my resumé (updated: Sep. 2024).

News

[December 2024] - Our paper "A Quantum Dual Logarithmic Barrier Method for Linear Optimization", joint work with Zeguan Wu, Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi, and Prof. Tamás Terlaky, is now available online on arXiv and ResearchGate.
[November 2024] - Our paper "Quantum Computing Inspired Iterative Refinement for Semidefinite Optimization," joint work with Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi, Brandon Augustino and Prof. Tamás Terlaky, got accepted in Mathematical Programming Journal.
[September 2024] - I will be presenting my joint research "Iterative Refinement for Semidefinite Optimization Problems" at 2024 SIAM-NNP Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, USA.
[September 2024] - I will be presenting my joint research "On Quadratic Convergence for Semidefinite Optimization Problems" at 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA.
[May 2024] - I will be working as an Operations Research Intern at United Airlines during Summer 2024.
[May 2024] - I successfully defended my Ph.D. proposal entitled "Conic Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Quantun Computing Perspectives", and was admitted to candidacy.
[December 2023] - I will be presenting my joint research "A Higher-order Interior Point Method for Solving Semidefinite Optimization Problems Failing Strict Complementarity" at 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, in Houston, TX, USA.
[December 2023] - Our paper "Quantum Computing Inspired Iterative Refinement for Semidefinite Optimization", joint work with Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi, Brandon Augustino, and Prof. Tamás Terlaky, is now available online on arXiv and ResearchGate.
[August 2023] - Our paper "On Semidefinite Representations of Second-order Conic Optimization Problems", joint work with Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi and Prof. Tamás Terlaky, got accepted in Communications in Optimization Theory.
[August 2023] - I will be presenting my joint research "A Higher-order Interior Point Method for Solving Semidefinite Optimization Problems Failing Strict Complementarity" at 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
[August 2023] - I will be presenting my joint research "A Higher-order Interior Point Method for Solving Semidefinite Optimization Problems Failing Strict Complementarity" at 2023 MOPTA Conference, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
[May 2023] - I will be presenting my joint research "On Semidefinite Representations of Second-order Conic Optimization Problems" at 2023 SIAM Conference on Optimization, Seattle, WA, USA.
[January 2023] - Our paper "On Semidefinite Representations of Second-order Conic Optimization Problems", joint work with Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi and Prof. Tamás Terlaky, is now available online on arXiv and ResearchGate.