Postdoctoral Fellow
Education
- Ph.D. Applied Mathematics (2024), Polytechnique Montreal
- MBA Operations & Supply Chain Management (2019), International University of Japan
- M.Eng. Industrial Engineering (2016), Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs
About
Mehdi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) of Georgia Institute of Technology and the NSF AI Research Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT), working with Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck.
Awards and Honors
- GERAD 2024 Best Thesis Competition, GERAD, 2025
- MAGI 2024 Best Thesis Prize, Polytechnique Montreal, 2025
- EURO Excellence in Practice Award, Winner, EURO, 2024
- IFORS Prize for OR in Development, Finalist, IFORS, 2023
- FRQNT Ph.D. Merit Scholarship, FRQNT, 2021
- IVADO Ph.D. Excellence Scholarship, IVADO, 2021
- Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Finalist, Government of Canada, 2021
- James Brian Quinn Scholar, MBA Valedictorian, 2019
- First Year Special Recognition, Top 1% MBA Batch, 2018
- ABE Initiative Scholarship, Japan International Cooperation Agency, 2017