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Carmine & Jean Iannacone Postdoctoral Fellow


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Education

  • Ph.D. Industrial and Systems Engineering (2024), University of Florida
  • M.S. Industrial Engineering (2021), Boğaziçi University
  • B.S. Industrial Engineering (2018), Boğaziçi University

About

I am a Carmine and Jean Iannacone Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Institute of Technology. I earned my Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Florida.

Research

My research lies at the intersection of machine learning, data science, and data-driven decision-making, with a focus on developing interpretable, robust, and privacy-preserving methods for analyzing high-dimensional and multimodal data. A central theme of my work is transforming diverse and irregular data streams into trustworthy insights that support organizational and societal decision-making. I develop tensor-based and federated frameworks for personalized and privacy-preserving modeling, as well as multimodal data fusion techniques for human-centered AI systems. More broadly, I aim to design human-centered and trustworthy analytics that bridge methodological rigor with real-world impact across healthcare, transportation, energy, and immersive technologies.

Teaching

My teaching interests include statistics, data science, and optimization for machine learning.

Representative Publications

[1] Konyar, E., Reisi Gahrooei, M. (2025). Semi-Supervised PARAFAC2 Decomposition for Computational Phenotyping Using Electronic Health Records. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical and Health Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2025.3530271

[2] Konyar, E., Reisi Gahrooei, M., Zhang, R. (2023). Robust Generalized Scalar-on-Tensor Regression. IISE Transactions, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/24725854.2023.2290110

[3] Konyar, E., Reisi Gahrooei, M. (2023). Federated Generalized Scalar-on-Tensor Regression. Journal of Quality Technology, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224065.2023.2246600