Teaching
- CS2580: Foundations of Prescriptive Analytics, Brown, 2017 - present
- Student evaluations: 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/2019
- Teaching in Times of Distruption and Resilient Course Design, Anchor Program, Brown, 2020
- PSPO - Professional Scrum Product Owner Certificate, Scrum.org, Oracle, 2015
- Coursera: Discrete Optimization, Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck, Community Assistant, Coursera, 2013, 2014
- CS 224: Interactive Computer Graphics, Prof. John Hughes, Head TA, Brown, 2010
- CS 149: Intro. to Combinatorial Optimization, Prof. Meinolf Sellmann, Head TA, Brown, 2008, 2009
- Teaching Certificate - The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Learning, Brown, 2008
PhD Theses Committee
- Kostis Michailidis, Ph.D. KU Leuven, 2026 (expected)
- Zohair Shafi, Ph.D. Northeastern University, 2026 (expected)
- Florian Regin, Ph.D., Université Cote d’Azur, 2024
- Zohreh Raziei, Ph.D., Northeastern University, 2024
- Enrique Areyan Viqueira, Ph.D., Brown University, 2021
Graduation Theses Advisor
- Akash Singirikonda, BSc., Brown University, 2025
- Shreyas Misra, BSc., Brown University, 2024
- Vignesh Pandiarajan and Cristina Hu, BSc., Brown University, 2024
- Paul Biberstein, BSc., Brown University, 2023
- Ansel Vahle, Valentin Perez, Sean Segal, BSc., Brown University 2018
Student Research
I enjoy collaboration with students many of which lead to research publications:
- Junyang Cai, University of Southern California, 2024/2025
- Zohair Shafi, Northeastern University, 2025
- Forge: Foundational Optimization Embeddings, ArXiv’25, NeurIPS’25
- Alican Yilmaz, Northeastern University, 2025
- ParBalans: Parallel Balans, ArXiv’25
- Weijia Jing, Northeastern University, 2024
- Aishwarya Kumar, Northeastern University, 2024
- Akshay Reddy Nagireddy, Northeastern University, 2023
- Zohreh Raziei, Northeastern University, 2023
- Ratan Sai Kokku, Northeastern University, 2023
- Irmak Bukey, BSc, Pomona College, 2021
- Shamay Samuel, BSc, Brown University, 2021
- Mohsen Emadikhiav, PhD, University of Connecticut, 2020 (Asst. Prof @ Florida Atlantic University)
- Rigel Galgana, Shamay Samuel, BSc, Brown University, 2019
- Independent research on Neural Constraint Solving
- Priya Singh, MSc., Northeastern University, 2019
- Pablo Colunga, MSc., Northeastern University, 2019
- Seq2Pat: Sequence-to-Pattern Generation,
INFORMS 2020
- Seq2Pat: Sequence-to-Pattern Generation,
- Emily Strong, MSc, Northeastern University, 2018
- MABWiser: Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits,
ICTAI 2019[code]
- MABWiser: Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits,
- Kevin Leo, MSc, NICTA, Australia & Giovanni Di Liberto, MSc, University of Padua, Italy (Post-doc @ École Normale Supérieure)
- André A. Ciré, PhD, CMU, 2014 (Asst. Prof @ University of Toronto)
- Parallel Restarted Search,
AAAI 2014
- Parallel Restarted Search,
- Barry Hurley, BSc, University College Cork, Ireland
- Peter Backeman, MSc, Uppsala University, 2013 (PhD student @ Uppsala)
- Siddhartha Jain, BSc, Brown University, 2010 (Applied Scientist @ Amazon AI)
