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Education and employment
- Apr 2026 – present: Postdoctoral Researcher in Optimization Theory, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Deterministic and stochastic optimization algorithms with applications to machine learning and operations research. Host: Prashant Singh.
- Aug 2020 – Feb 2026: WASP Doctoral Researcher and PhD in Mathematical Statistics, Umeå University, Sweden
- Thesis: From Accelerated First-Order Methods to Structured Nonconvex Optimization: Analysis and Perspectives. Supervisor: Alp Yurtsever.
- Sep 2017 – Jan 2019: M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
- Thesis: Sparse Signal Reconstruction using Blind Super-resolution with Arbitrary Sampling. Supervisor: M. H. Kahaei.
- Sep 2013 – Sep 2017: B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
Internship
- Feb 2024 – Nov 2024: Research Intern, Pendulum Systems, USA
- Prediction, resource allocation, end-to-end optimization, and active learning.
Research visits
- Mar 2025 – May 2025: Technical University of Munich, Germany. Host: Suvrit Sra.
- Jun 2023: University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Host: Jared Tanner.
- May 2023 – Jun 2023: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Host: Konstantinos C. Zygalakis.
Awards and grants
- WASP postdoctoral scholarship (SEK 1.1 million) from the Wallenberg Foundation for a two-year postdoctoral stay at Inria Paris, hosted by Francis Bach.
- Travel grant (SEK 20,000) from the Kempe Foundation to attend NeurIPS 2025.
- Travel grant (SEK 30,000) from the Wallenberg Foundation (WASP) to attend NeurIPS 2023.
- Travel grant (SEK 16,500) from the Kempe Foundation to attend NeurIPS 2023.
Publications
Pouria Fatemi, Hoomaan Maskan, Suvrit Sra, and Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani. "Tight Generalization Bounds for Noiseless Inverse Optimization." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026.
Pouria Fatemi*, Hoomaan Maskan*, Alp Yurtsever, and Suvrit Sra. "The Multi-Block DC Function Class: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026. (*Equal contribution)
Xuhui Zhang, Hoomaan Maskan, Alp Yurtsever, and Suvrit Sra. "Toward Distributionally Robust Decision Focused Learning." NeurIPS 2026 Second Workshop on MLxOR, 2026.
Hoomaan Maskan, Yikun Hou, Suvrit Sra, and Alp Yurtsever. "Revisiting Frank-Wolfe for Structured Nonconvex Optimization." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.
Hoomaan Maskan, Paniz Halvachi, Suvrit Sra, and Alp Yurtsever. "Randomized Block Coordinate DC Algorithm." EURO Journal on Computational Optimization, 13:100123, 2025.
Hoomaan Maskan, Konstantinos C. Zygalakis, and Alp Yurtsever. "A Variational Perspective on High-Resolution ODEs." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 36, 2023.
Hoomaan Maskan, Sajad Daei, and Mohammad Hossein Kahaei. "Demixing sines and spikes using multiple measurement vectors." Signal Processing, 203:108786, 2023.
Milad Javadzadeh Jirhandeh, Hoomaan Hezaveh, and Mohammad Hossein Kahaei. "Super-resolution DOA estimation for wideband signals using non-uniform linear arrays with no focusing matrix." IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 11(3):641–644, 2022.
Hoomaan Hezave, Milad Javadzadeh, and Mohammad Hossein Kahaei. "Sparse signal reconstruction using blind super-resolution with arbitrary sampling." IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 27:615–619, 2020.
Hoomaan Hezaveh, Iman Valiulahi, and Mohammad Hossein Kahaei. "Incorporation of prior knowledge into sparse time dispersive OFDM channel estimation via weighted atomic norm minimisation." IET Communications, 14(11):1704–1708, 2020.
Talks
June 2026
Talk at SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP26), Edinburgh, United Kingdom
May 2026
Talk at ELLIIT Focus Period on Optimization for Learning, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
February 2025
Talk at Umeå University PhD Conference, Umeå, Sweden
June 2024
Talk at The 21st EUROPT Conference on Continuous Optimization, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
December 2023
Talk at New York University, New York, United States
August 2023
Talk at Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary
June 2023
Talk at Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
February 2023
Talk at Joint Statistical Seminars (JSS,Umeå University), Umeå University
Teaching
Supervision
- 2025: Master’s thesis, Technical University of Munich, Germany. End-to-end portfolio allocation.
- 2024: Master’s thesis, Scania, Sweden. Weather impact on energy consumption of electric vehicles.
- 2024: Bachelor’s student, Sharif University of Technology, Iran. Block coordinate DC programming.
Service
- Reviewer: NeurIPS (2023–2026), ICML (2024–2026), ICLR (2024–2026), AISTATS 2025, AAAI 2025, TMLR, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA), Advances in Computational Mathematics.
- Session organizer: EUROPT 2026, Linz, Austria.
- Jan 2022 – Sep 2025: Member of the PhD Student Council (NTK), Umeå University.
- Sep 2022 – Sep 2025: Umeå University representative in the WASP PhD Student Council.
Skills
- Programming: Python (PyTorch, NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, CVXPY, Matplotlib), MATLAB, Scala (Spark, Horovod), R
- Tools: Git, LaTeX, Docker, AWS, Jira, Bitbucket
Languages
- Persian (native), English (fluent), Swedish (fluent), German (basic)
