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Mehdi Karimi

Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 309b
  • About
  • Education
  • Research

Current Courses

260.001Discrete Mathematics

205.001Introduction to Deep Learning

147.001Calculus III

260.001Discrete Mathematics

285.003Honors Undergraduate Research I

499.001Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

Research Interests & Areas

- Optimization and mathematical programming
- Optimization software and applications
- Interplay of optimization and machine learning
- Hyperbolic programming and sum-of-squares techniques
- Optimization in power systems, communications, and smart grids
- Convex analysis
- Interior-point methods

PhD Mathematics/Optimization

University of Waterloo

MS Mathematics/Optimization

University of Waterloo

PhD Electrical Engineering

Sharif University of Technology

MS Electrical Engineering

Sharif University of Technology

BS Electrical Engineering

Isfahan University of Technology

Journal Article

Karimi, M., & Tuncel, L. Domain-Driven Solver (DDS) Version 2.1: a MATLAB-based software package for convex optimization problems in domain-driven form. Mathematical Programming Computation (2023): 1-55.
O’Donnell, B., Sanchez-Pupo, R., Sayedyahossein, S., Karimi, M., Bahmani, M., Zhang, C., Johnston, D., Kelly, J., Wakefield, C., Barr, K., Dagnino, L., & Penuela, S. PANX3 Channels Regulate Architecture, Adhesion, Barrier Function, and Inflammation in the Skin. Journal of Investigative Dermatology 143.8 (2023): 1509-1519.
Karimi, M., & Tuncel, L. Status determination by interior-point methods for convex optimization problems in domain-driven form. Mathematical Programming 194.1-2 (2022): 937-974.
Karimi, M., & Tuncel, L. Primal–Dual Interior-Point Methods for Domain-Driven Formulations. Mathematics of Operations Research 45.2 (2020): 591-621.

Presentations

Efficient Implementation of Interior-Point Methods for Quantum Relative Entropy. SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23). (2023)

Grants & Contracts

Intelligent Modeling and Parameter Selection in Distributed Optimization for Power Networks. National Science Foundation. Federal. (2024)