Academic Background

Education

• Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering
  University of Florida · August 2023–May 2027 (expected)
  Advisor: Prof. Hamed Amini
• M.Sc. in Industrial and Systems Engineering
  University of Florida · August 2023–August 2025
• B.Sc. in Operations Research
  Sharif University of Technology · August 2018–June 2023
  Minor in Applied Mathematics

Awards

• Harold D. Haldeman, Jr. ISE Scholarship
  University of Florida · 2026
• UF Doctoral Fellowship Award
  University of Florida · 2023–2028

Academic Service

Conference Referee

• ACM Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), 2024–2026
• IEEE Computational Intelligence in Financial Engineering and Economics, 2026

Conference Session Chair

• Machine Learning, Volatility, and Financial Risk (MC48), INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2026 (scheduled)
• Portfolios I, SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering (FM25), 2025

Student Leadership

Secretary, UF INFORMS Student Chapter, 2025–present

Professional Memberships

INFORMS and SIAM

Section affiliations: INFORMS Finance Section; INFORMS Telecommunications and Network Analytics.