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!

Updates

2026

• [July] I will present our work A uniformity principle for spatial matching at the MSOM Conference in Boston, MA and the RMP Conference in Ann Arbor, MI.
• [June] Our paper Aligning Multiple Inhomogeneous Random Graphs: Fundamental Limits of Exact Recovery, joint work with Bruce Hajek, was accepted to Operations Research.
• [June] I received the Outstanding Student Poster Award at the Stochastic Networks Conference.
• [May] I defended my Ph.D. thesis!
• [April] I gave an invited talk on our paper Flexibility allocation in random bipartite matching markets: exact matching rates and dominance regimes at the Rotman Young Scholar Seminar Series.
• [April] Our paper Detecting planted structure in circular data was accepted to ISIT ‘26.
• [April] New paper Flexibility allocation in random bipartite matching markets: exact matching rates and dominance regimes on arXiv. Joint work with Flore Sentenac and Sophie Yu.
• [January] New paper A uniformity principle for spatial matching on arXiv. Joint work with Flore Sentenac and Sophie Yu.
• [January] New paper Detecting planted structure in circular data on arXiv. Joint work with Bruce Hajek.

2025

• [October] I presented our work Aligning Multiple Inhomogeneous Random Graphs: Fundamental Limits of Exact Recovery at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
• [October] I attended 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 the INFORMS APS Conference in Atlanta, GA.
• [June] I was a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award in Statistics and Data Science at the 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, were 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 the 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.