{"id":572,"date":"2022-10-02T02:48:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T02:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/farzad-yousefian\/?page_id=572"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:45:46","slug":"group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/farzad-yousefian\/group\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h4><strong>Group Leader<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-443 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/farzad-yousefian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/881\/2017\/12\/RU_Farzad.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"228\" \/><\/strong><strong data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"169\">Bio:<\/strong> Farzad Yousefian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University\u2013New Brunswick. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2006 and 2008, respectively. His research interests lie in distributed optimization in multi-agent networks, stochastic and large-scale optimization, nonconvex optimization, hierarchical optimization, variational inequalities, computational game theory, and applications in machine learning and transportation systems. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Department of Energy (DOE). He is a recipient (jointly with his co-authors) of the Best Theoretical Paper Award at the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). Dr. Yousefian is a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). \u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">[<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=N9pIpQQAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">]\u00a0 [<a href=\"https:\/\/ise.rutgers.edu\/farzad-yousefian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ISE Page<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Education<\/strong><\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h6>PhD, Industrial Eng., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6>MS, Industrial Eng., Sharif University of Technology<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6>BS, Industrial Eng., Sharif University of Technology<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/h6>\n<ul class=\"n8H08c UVNKR\">\n<li class=\"TYR86d wXCUfe zfr3Q\">\n<h6 class=\"CDt4Ke zfr3Q\">Distributed Optimization in Multi-Agent Networks<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"TYR86d wXCUfe zfr3Q\">\n<h6 class=\"CDt4Ke zfr3Q\">Stochastic and Large-Scale Optimization<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"TYR86d wXCUfe zfr3Q\">\n<h6 class=\"CDt4Ke zfr3Q\">Hierarchical and Nonconvex Optimization<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"TYR86d wXCUfe zfr3Q\">\n<h6 class=\"CDt4Ke zfr3Q\">Variational Inequalities and Nash Games<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Current PhD Students<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Mohammadjavad Ebrahimi <\/strong>(Fall 2022 &#8211; present)<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Yang Liu <\/strong>(Summer 2025 &#8211; present)<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Fateme Maleki <\/strong>(Spring 2025 &#8211; present)<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Sepideh Samadi <\/strong>(Fall 2022 &#8211; present)<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Former PhD Students <\/strong>(first position)<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Yuyang Qiu, <\/strong>2022 &#8211; 2025 (postdoc at UC Santa Barbara)<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><span class=\" aw5Odc\"><strong>Harshal D. Kaushik<\/strong>, <\/span>2017 &#8211; 2021 (postdoc at Virginia Tech)<\/h6>\n<h6 dir=\"ltr\"><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"CDt4Ke zfr3Q\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\" aw5Odc\"><strong>Nahidsadat Majlesinasab<\/strong>, co-advised by Dr. Arash Pourhabib, <\/span>2015 &#8211; 2020 (Data Scientist at MODE Transportation)<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group Leader Bio: Farzad Yousefian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University\u2013New Brunswick. 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