Mehdi Karimi
Assistant Professor
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STV Stevenson Hall 309b
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- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Current Courses
MAT 260.003 Discrete Mathematics
MAT 499.002 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
MAT 400.003 Independent Study
MAT 205.001 Introduction to Deep Learning
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
Grants and Contracts
Advancing Predictive Models with SDOH Integration in Healthcare
Maochao Xu, Mehdi Karimi, Xiaotian Dai.
Connected Communities Initiative (OSF HealthCare and ISU). July 2024 - June 2025
Intelligent Modeling and Parameter Selection in Distributed Optimization for Power Networks
Mehdi Karimi.
National Science Foundation. June 1 2024 - May 31 2026
Pre-tenure Faculty Initiative Grant (PFIG): Using Physics-Informed Deep-Learning to Study Dynamic Fracture in Cellular Structures
Mehdi Karimi.
College of Art and Science. July 2024 - June 2025
Journal Article
Efficient Implementation of Interior-Point Methods for Quantum Relative Entropy
Mehdi Karimi, Levent Tuncel.
INFORMS Journal on Computing—Quantum Computing and Operations Research, (2025)
KSR1 is a scaffold for the Hippo signaling pathway
Samar Sayedyahossein, Mohammed Rizwan Babu Sait, Zhigang Li, Riddhi Banerjee, Andy Tran, Louise Thines, Mehdi Karimi, Mehrnoosh Bahmani, Naomi Mishan, Pooya Borzou, Sergio Hassan, David Sacks.
Communications Biology, 8 (1), 1725, (2025)
Radial Partitioning with Spectral Penalty Parameter Selection in Distributed Optimization for Power Systems
Mehdi Karimi.
Journal of Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, (2025)
Domain-Driven Solver (DDS) Version 2.1: a MATLAB-based software package for convex optimization problems in domain-driven form
Mehdi Karimi, Levent Tuncel.
Mathematical Programming Computation, 1-55, (2023)
PANX3 Channels Regulate Architecture, Adhesion, Barrier Function, and Inflammation in the Skin
Brooke O’Donnell, Rafael Sanchez-Pupo, Samar Sayedyahossein, Mehdi Karimi, Mehrnoosh Bahmani, Christopher Zhang, Danielle Johnston, John Kelly, C. Brent Wakefield, Kevin Barr, Lina Dagnino, Silvia Penuela.
Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 143 (8), 1509-1519, (2023)
Status determination by interior-point methods for convex optimization problems in domain-driven form
Mehdi Karimi, Levent Tuncel.
Mathematical Programming, 194 (1-2), 937-974, (2022)
Primal–Dual Interior-Point Methods for Domain-Driven Formulations
Mehdi Karimi, Levent Tuncel.
Mathematics of Operations Research, 45 (2), 591-621, (2020)
A Utility Theory Based Interactive Approach to Robustness in Linear Optimization
Mehdi Karimi, Somayeh Moazeni, Levent Tuncel.
Journal of Global Optimization, 70, 811-842, (2018)
Primal-Dual Entropy Based Interior-Point Algorithms for Linear Optimization
Mehdi Karimi, S Luo, Levent Tuncel.
RAIRO-Operations Research, 51, 299-328, (2017)
Presentations
Advances in Interior-Point Methods for Hyperbolic Programming
Mehdi Karimi, Levent Tundel.
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October, 2025
Making the Introductory STEM Experience Equitable: A panel with Inclusive Excellence STEM Fellows
Mehdi Karimi.
Teaching & Learning Symposium, Normal, Illinois, January, 2025
Polynomial-time Interior-Point Methods for Convex Optimization Beyond Symmetric Cones
Mehdi Karimi.
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, October, 2024
Efficient Quantum Relative Entropy Programming with SDP Preprocessing
Mehdi Karimi.
International Symposium for Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Montreal, Quebec, July, 2024
Efficient Quantum Relative Entropy Programming with SDP Preprocessing
Mehdi Karimi.
European Conference on Operations Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, June, 2024
Efficient Implementation of Interior-Point Methods for Quantum Relative Entropy
Mehdi Karimi.
SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23), Seattle, Washington, June, 2023