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[August 1-6, 2020] - I am excited to be organizing a session on "Advances in resource allocation for epidemic control: estimation, optimization, and counterfactuals" at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Philadelphia.

[March 5-6, 2020] - I will also be attending the Harvard CRCS Workshop on AI for Social Impact in Cambridge.
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In my postdoctoral work, I have used optimal control and game theory to study dynamic interventions in networks. I am now focused on developing mathematical decisionmaking tools for epidemic control and policy-making.

In my PhD thesis (supervised by Saswati Sarkar and Santosh Venkatesh), I showed how more granular data can drastically change optimal epidemic policies & responses.

News

• October '19 - I attended the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA, where I am available for interviews. I presented our work on contact-tracing, as well as an overview of my research program.
• July '19 - I presented our paper on energy-efficient multilayer backbones and co-chaired a session at the IEEE American Control Conference (ACC '19) in dear old Philadelphia, PA!
• June '19 - I presented a YINS summer seminar on efficient policies for contact-tracing.
• April '19 - Our paper on influence maximization under uncertainty was presented at CAOS '19, a satellite of Infocom '19, in Paris, France.

Employment

2016-		Yale University	Postdoctoral Associate	Postdoc
2015-16		Cornell University	Postdoctoral Associate	Postdoc
2011-15		University of Pennsylvania	Graduate Research Associate	GRA
2014		NEC Labs America	Summer Intern	Intern

Education

2015	PhD	Electrical & Systems Engineering	ESE		University of Pennsylvania
2013	MSc	Electrical Engineering	EE		University of Pennsylvania
2010	BSc	Electrical Engineering	EE		Sharif University of Technology

Selected Awards