I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Bruce Hajek.

My research deals with inference, optimization, and decision-making in stochastic networks and matching systems. My PhD work is on problems in statistical inference (graph matching and detection of planted structures), resource allocation in matching markets (spatial flexibility and multi-type interactions), and network robustness (graph matching under adversarial corruption, security of blockchain protocols under message loss). My work has been recognized through multiple departmental fellowships and paper awards, including the Jack Wolf ISIT Best Student Paper Award (2025); I was also a finalist for the IISA Best Student Paper Award (2025), and the INFORMS APS Best Student Paper Award (2024).

I graduated with B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from the American University of Sharjah, where I received the President’s cup for highest GPA. My research there focused on problems in control theory and communication networks. I also worked on the Ising model during a research internship at Aalto University, Finland.

Outside of work, I enjoy reading, traveling and hiking. I particularly appreciate the US National Parks and aspire to eventually explore all 63!

I am on the 2025-26 academic job market.

Updates

2025

• [October] I will be attending the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Oct 26-29 in Atlanta, GA, where I will present my job market paper:
   —  Aligning Multiple Inhomogeneous Random Graphs: Fundamental Limits of Exact Recovery
   —  Session: Applied Probability in Algorithmic and Operational Networks II
   —  Sunday, Oct 26, 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM @ Building A, Level 4, A405

• My co-author will present our other work on flexibility in spatial matching, immediately after my talk:
   —  The Uniformity Principle in Spatial Matching
   —  Session: Applied Probability in Algorithmic and Operational Networks II
   —  Sunday, Oct 26, 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM @ Building A, Level 4, A405

• [October] I will be attending the Cornell ORIE Young Researchers Workshop, Oct 8-10 in Ithaca, NY.
• [July] I received the Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award for the paper “Exact random graph matching with multiple graphs”.
• [July] I gave an invited talk at INFORMS APS Conference in Atlanta, GA.
• [June] I was a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award in Statistics and Data Science at IISA conference in Lincoln, NE.
• [May] I received the A.R. “Buck” Knight Fellowship from the ECE department at UIUC.
• [April] Two papers “Exact random graph matching with multiple graphs” and “Detecting correlation between multiple Gaussian networks” accepted to ISIT ‘25.

2024

• [October] I was a finalist for the INFORMS Applied Probability Society’s Best Student Paper Prize.
• [October] I gave an invited talk at the Theoretical Advances in Networks, Dynamics and Inference session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA.
• [July] I presented our work “Robust Graph Matching when Nodes are Corrupt” at ICML in Vienna, Austria.
• [July] I presented a poster on Exact Graph Matching with Multiple Graphs at “Stochastic Networks Conference” in Stockholm, Sweden.
• [April] I received the Robert T. Chien Memorial Award from the ECE department at UIUC.
• [April] I was selected as a MAVIS Future Faculty Fellow for the academic year 2024-25.
• [April] I presented a poster on Exact Graph Matching with Multiple Graphs at the IDEAL Workshop on Learning in Networks: Discovering Hidden Structure in Evanston, IL.
• [February] I presented a poster on Robust Graph Matching at the CSL Student Conference at UIUC.