Princeton University
Operations Research & Financial Engineering

Contact: aras@princeton.edu

Address: Room 113, Sherrerd Hall, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

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I am a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University, mentored by Bartolomeo Stellato. In Fall 2026, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Operations & Technology at the UCL School of Management.

I received my PhD from Imperial College Business School, where I was fortunate to be advised by Wolfram Wiesemann as a member of the Analytics & Operations group. I was a fellow at the Computational Optimization Group and the Data Science Institute of Imperial College London, and I completed research internships at The Alan Turing Institute and J.P. Morgan AI Research.

My research interests are the theory of data-driven decision making under uncertainty and its applications in machine learning, privacy, and fairness. In my recent works, I have been working on designing optimal privacy mechanisms, developing efficient algorithms for robust machine learning, as well as approximating hard decision making problems via robust optimization.

News

  • May '26Professor Lily Xu (lead PI), Professor Burcu Balcik (co-PI), and I (co-PI) are awarded a generous $150,000 grant by Columbia Global. We will collaborate with the World Food Programme (United Nations) and Hayata Destek (Turkish NGO) to develop reliable data- and AI-driven decision making tools that prioritize relief operations immediately following a natural disaster. Anson Shyu will be the lead student on the project, and we will also actively collaborate with Professor Nabila El-Bassel, an expert in social work.
  • Apr '26Our new mixture mechanism for differential privacy is accepted at ICML 2026!
  • Mar '26I am grateful to SIAM and NSF for awarding me an Early Career Travel Award!