Teaching/Advising

Teaching

Foundations of Data Privacy. IEOR 8100 / COMS 6998 (Course page): Fall 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2019 (ISYE/CS 8803 at Georgia Tech), Fall 2017 (ISYE/CS 8803 at Georgia Tech)

Healthcare Applications of Machine Learning. IEOR 8100: Spring 2026

Information Design. IEOR 8100 (Syllabus): Spring 2025

Policy for Privacy Technologies. ORCS 4201 (Syllabus): Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023 (IEOR 4575), Fall 2021 (IEOR 4575)

Analysis of Algorithms. CSOR 4231 (Syllabus): Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2022

Mathematics of Operations Research. ISYE 8813 at Georgia Tech (Syllabus): Fall 2020, Fall 2019

Supply Chain Economics. ISYE 4301 at Georgia Tech: Fall 2018

Advising

I’m fortunate to advise many talented students and postdocs:

1. Saeyoung Rho, Ph.D. CS (co-advised with Vishal Misra)
2. Soufiane Fafe, Ph.D. OR (co-advised with Vineet Goyal)
3. Ziyu Huang, Ph.D. OR (co-advised with Wenpin Tang)
4. Peihan Liu, Ph.D. CS (co-advised with Roxana Geambasu)

Alumni

1. Jayshree Sarathy, (Postdoc) Now an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University
2. Tamalika Mukherjee, (Postdoc) Now a Research Group Leader at Max Planck
3. Zixing Wang (Ph.D. OR 2020, co-advised with Chip White) Now a Research Scientist at Amazon
4. Wanrong Zhang (Ph.D. Statistics 2021, co-advised with Yajun Mei) Now an Assistant Professor at University of British Columbia
5. Yuliia Lut (Ph.D. OR 2022) Now a Research Scientist at LinkedIn
6. Tingting Ou, (Ph.D. OR 2025, co-advised with Marco Avella Medina) Now a Quantitative Researcher at Cubist Strategies
7. Kevin Yeo, (Ph.D. CS 2025, co-advised with Tal Malkin and Josh Alman) Now a Researcher at Google
8. Abdellah Aznag, (Ph.D. OR 2026, co-advised with Adam Elmachtoub) Now a Postdoc at Harvard Business School
9. Jinyan Liu Visiting Ph.D. student from University of Hong Kong (advised by Zhiyi Huang) Now an Assistant Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology
10. Mary Anne Smart, Visiting Ph.D. student from UCSD (advised by Kristen Vaccaro) Now an Assistant Teaching Professor at Purdue
11. Priyanka Nanayakkara, Visiting Ph.D. student from Northwestern (advised by Jessica Hullman) Now a Postdoc at Harvard
12. Liudas Panavas, Visiting Ph.D. student from Northeastern (advised by Cody Dunne)
13. Shlomi Hod, Visiting Ph.D. student from Boston University (advised by Ran Canetti)
14. Elizabeth Krizay (M.S. Stats 2019) Now a Cyber Risk Data Analyst at Expanse
15. Bengusu Ozcan (M.A. Quantitative Methods 2022) Now a Technical Analyst at Fathom Radiant
16. Jane Wenqi Wang (M.S. Financial Eng. 2022) Now a Ph.D. student at MIT
17. Roy Rinberg (M.S. CS 2023, co-advised with Steve Bellovin) Now a Ph.D student at Harvard
18. Rania Alshafie (M.S. OR 2023) Now a Data Analyst at Azend Pharma
19. Yatharth Dubey (B.S. ISyE/CS 2018) Now an Assistant Professor at UIUC
20. Varun Gupta (B.S. CS 2019) Now a Ph.D. student at UPenn
21. Dhamma Kimpara (B.S. Math 2019)  Now a Scientist at NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
22. Chris Waites (B.S. CS 2019) Now an M.S. student at Stanford
23. Ankit Siva (B.S. CS 2020) Now a Software Engineer at Amazon
24. Eitan Turok (B.S. Applied Math 2023) Now an M.S. student at Weizmann
25. Wynee Pintado, (B.A. Political Science and CS at Barnard 2024, co-advised with Rebecca Wright) Now a Regional Assistant in the U.S. Senate
26. Hari Bhimaraju, (B.S. IEOR 2025, co-advised with Rebecca Wright) Now an Analyst at McKinsey
27. Ying Wang, (B.S. CS 2026) Now a Ph.D. student at MIT
28. Begum Cicekdag, (B.S. CS 2026)