I am a fourth-year PhD student in the computer and communication science department at EPFL. I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Rachid Guerraoui, a world leader in distributed computing. Before coming to EPFL, I earned a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.

My main line of research is in distributed optimization and machine learning, with a focus on robustness, fault-tolerance, and privacy.

For more information, please download my CV from here.

Publications

2024

2023

2022

* I did not attend ICML 2022 as I received my visa late.

2021

* The authors' list is always in alphabetical order in our group. The lead author(s) is usually indicated as the "corresponding author" in the papers. In [1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9], I was a lead author and I played a primary role (coming up with the idea, algorithms, proofs, etc.). The main idea of [5] was initiated in one of our discussions with YA inspired by [4]. Youssef then did all the heavy lifting for this work. Initially, [7] was NG and RP’s project, studying the impact of momentum in Byzantine ML. In a group meeting, I noticed that their approach can be generalized by changing the definition of robustness to the one used in [9]. I then joined the project and proved that this definition is satisfied by almost all existing works, which led to a unifying framework for Byzantine machine learning.