Members

Principal Investigator
Mehrdad Mahdavi
Associte Professor
Ph.D. Students
Pouria Mahdavinia
PhD Student
Research: Federated Learning

Fuli Qiao
PhD Student
Research: Continual Learning

Arshan Dalili
PhD Student
Research: TBD
Co-advisor: Wenpeng Yin

Master Students
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MSc Student
Research: Privacy at Scale

Undergraduate Students
John Doe
BSc Student
Research: XXX

Jane Doe
BSc Student
Jane Doe
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Alumni
Guneykan Ozgul
PhD 2025
Thesis: Quantum Optimization and Sampling
Co-advisor: Chunhao Wang
Yuyang Deng
PhD 2024
Thesis: Learning from Heterogeneous Data Sources

Weilin Cong
PhD 2023
Thesis: Graph Neural Networks

Mohammad Mahdi Kamani
PhD 2020
Thesis: Fairness/Bias Mitigation
Co-advisor: James Wang
Farzin Haddadpour
PhD 2020
Thesis: Distributed Optimization
Co-advisor: Viveck Cadambe
Brandon Edmunds
MSc 2024
Thesis: Privacy at Scale

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MSc 2025
Thesis: Sparse DNNs

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We are looking for talented/motivated PhD students to work on theoretical and applied problems in machine learning/optimization. If you are interested, please contact Mehrdad Mahdavi. Also, if you are an existing graduate or under-graduate student at PSU and would like to work with us, feel free to send me an e-mail to meet up and discuss some ongoing research projects.