Amir Ajorlou

Biography

I am a research scientist at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at MIT from 2014 to 2017. I received my BS from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, and my PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, in 2013. I have been the recipient of several awards, including two gold medals in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), Concordia University Doctoral Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, Governor-General of Canada Academic Gold Medal, and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship.

I have over ten years of experience in teaching the art of problem-solving to students preparing to participate in the National and International Mathematical Olympiad.  At MIT, I have offered Nonlinear Optimization (6.252) in Spring 2017 and  Introduction to Network Models (1.022) in Fall 2018 and Fall 2020. See my Teaching page for more details.
 
My research is aimed at making a profound understanding of decision making under uncertainty at both microscopic and systemic levels in large population of strategic agents where individual agents have information of varying quality and precision, information exchange is limited and localized, and the sources, reliability, and trustworthiness of information is unclear. This is the common gist in many applications ranging from social and crowd-based platforms, sharing economy, to cyber-physical systems, and more broadly, complex social and economic networks.