Amir Ali Ahmadi
{{Short description|Iranian engineer}}
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| fields = Operations Research and Financial Engineering
| workplaces = Princeton University
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| awards = Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science (2017), INFORMS Computing Society Prize (2012), Goldstine Fellowship (2012)
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Amir Ali Ahmadi is a professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. He is primarily known for his work on mathematical optimization.
Biography
Ahmadi obtained a B.S. in both mathematics and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland in 2006. He then received his M.S. and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008 and 2011 respectively, where he was supervised by Pablo Parrilo. After this, he spent a year in the Robot Locomotion Group at MIT as a postdoctoral fellow before joining the IBM Watson Research Center in 2012 as a Herman Goldstine Fellow.{{cite web|url=http://www.research.ibm.com/goldstine/|title=IBM Research- 2018–2019 Goldstine Fellowship|date=19 May 2011|website=www.research.ibm.com}} He is now professor in the department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University.
Honors and awards
Ahmadi's work is mostly in optimization. In his thesis, he answered a 20-year-old open problem posed by N. Z. Shor.{{cite web|url=https://news.mit.edu/2011/convexity-0715|title=After almost 20 years, math problem falls|date=15 July 2011 |publisher=}} For this contribution and other contributions to the study of the computational aspects of convexity, he and his co-authors received the 2012 INFORMS Computing Society Prize.{{cite web|url=https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/Community-Prizes/INFORMS-Computing-Society/INFORMS-Computing-Society-Prize|title=INFORMS Computing Society Prize|last=INFORMS|website=INFORMS}} He is also the recipient of the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science{{cite web|url=https://sloan.org/fellowships/2017-Fellows|title=2017 Fellows|website=sloan.org|access-date=2017-12-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708075903/https://sloan.org/fellowships/2017-Fellows|archive-date=2017-07-08|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2017/02/21/three-engineering-faculty-win-sloan-fellowships|title=Three engineering faculty win Sloan Fellowships|date=21 February 2017|publisher=}} and 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.{{Cite web|url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-announces-recipients-presidential-early-career-award-scientists-engineers/|title=President Donald J. Trump Announces Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers|date=2019-07-02|language=en|via=National Archives|work=whitehouse.gov|access-date=2019-08-03}}
References
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External links
- [http://aaa.princeton.edu/ Amir Ali Ahmadi's professional home page]
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Category:Princeton University faculty
Category:MIT School of Engineering alumni
Category:University System of Maryland alumni
Category:21st-century Iranian mathematicians
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers