Hi! I'm Senem, a first-year PhD student at Stanford University in the Operations Research group within the Department of Management Science & Engineering. Previously, I completed my Bachelor's with Honors in Mathematics and (concurrent) Master's in Computer Science (Theory & AI track) also at Stanford :)
I am originally from Istanbul, Türkiye. I pronounce my full name as Senæm ɯˈʃɯk, and here's a place that's close to my heart 🧡
Email: senemi [at] stanford [dot] edu
Random Lipschitz functions on graphs with weak expansion with Jinyoung Park (submitted)
Joint Mathematics Meetings, 2025 (oral presentation)
Local Limits of Small-World Networks with Yeganeh Alimohammadi and Amin Saberi (submitted)
ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2024 (poster presentation)
Improving the convex program for antidote allocation and Theoretical analyses of epidemiological processes on graphs with Uma Dayal, Margalit Glasgow, and Mary Wootters
Stanford CURIS (Computer Science Research) Poster Session, 2021 (Outstanding Poster Award)
Stanford MS&E 211DS (Introduction to Optimization: Data Science)
Stanford CS 161 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms)
Genesis Therapeutics, Machine Learning Research Intern
VQ-VAEs for encoding molecular structures (2025 spring)
IMC Trading, Quantitative Trader Intern
Auctions on single stock options (2023 summer)
Meta, Software Engineer Intern
Stream processing (2022 summer)
A Random Walk through Probabilistic Graph Theory
Honors Thesis submitted to the Stanford Department of Mathematics, advised by Tselil Schramm
Tackling the Traveling Salesman Problem with Graph Neural Networks
Blog post published as part of Stanford course CS224W (Graph ML) by Jure Lescovec
Optimization Methods for Graphs: Thresholds, Matchings, and Dense Subgraphs
Tutorial submitted as part of Stanford course EE 364B (Convex Optimization II)