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Abraar Chaudhry

I am a PhD student in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University.

My advisors are Amir Ali Ahmadi and Liza (Elizaveta) Rebrova.

Before Princeton, I did my undergrad at Brown University.

Research Interests

I am interested in problems in optimization and the mathematics of data science.

Work in Progress

• Generalized Ellipsoids
  • Amir Ali Ahmadi, Abraar Chaudhry, Cemil Dibek
• Stable Matrices in an Affine Subspace
  • Amir Ali Ahmadi, Abraar Chaudhry

Papers

• Higher-Order Newton Methods with Polynomial Work per Iteration
  • Amir Ali Ahmadi, Abraar Chaudhry, Jeffrey Zhang
• Safely Learning Dynamical Systems
  • Amir Ali Ahmadi, Abraar Chaudhry, Vikas Sindhwani, Stephen Tu
• Safely Learning Dynamical Systems from Short Trajectories
  • Amir Ali Ahmadi, Abraar Chaudhry, Vikas Sindhwani, Stephen Tu
• Pharmaceutical portfolio optimization under cost uncertainty via chance constrained-type method
  • Maboubeh Farid, Abraar Chaudhry, Magnus Ytterstad, Stig Johan Wiklund

Teaching

Princeton University

• TA for Computing and Optimization
  • Fall 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • Taught by Amir Ali Ahmadi
• TA for Convex and Conic Optimization
  • Spring 2021, 2022, 2023
  • Taught by Amir Ali Ahmadi
• Ta for Senior Independent Research Foundations
  • Fall 2023
  • Taught by Daniel Rigobon