Jekyll2025-05-18T00:01:23+00:00https://mohammadkhf.github.io/feed.xmlAbout meResearch Assistant at SMUMohamad Khalafimohamadk@smu.eduThe Frederick E. Terman Award, Southern Methodist University2025-05-06T00:00:00+00:002025-05-06T00:00:00+00:00https://mohammadkhf.github.io/posts/awardThis award is awarded each year to graduate students whose scholastic attainments and contributions to the School are judged to be in the highest tradition.]]>Mohamad Khalafimohamadk@smu.eduBest Graduate Poster Presentation, Southern Methodist University2024-03-02T00:00:00+00:002024-03-02T00:00:00+00:00https://mohammadkhf.github.io/posts/blog-post-3My poster titled “First-order Methods for Function-Constrained Variational Inequality Problems” won the best poster presentation among PhD and Post-Doc posters in the OREM department.]]>Mohamad Khalafimohamadk@smu.eduWinner of the Operations Research department’s Outstanding Graduate Award, Southern Methodist University2024-03-01T00:00:00+00:002024-03-01T00:00:00+00:00https://mohammadkhf.github.io/posts/blog-post-1I was chosen as the best graduate student in the OREM department of Southern Methodist University. The Outstanding Graduate Student Award is awarded to a graduate student in recognition of exceptional contributions to research and academic achievement in their field of study.]]>Mohamad Khalafimohamadk@smu.eduWinner Operations Research and Advanced Analytics Hack-a-thon Contest among 13 Teams2024-03-01T00:00:00+00:002024-03-01T00:00:00+00:00https://mohammadkhf.github.io/posts/blog-post-2This competition was held at American Airlines’ HQ in Fort Worth. Teams were asked to develop a model that aims to predict the next destination of the customers given their historical data. We were required to come up with a solution for this problem in a three-hour time frame and give a 15-minute presentation to the referees.]]>Mohamad Khalafimohamadk@smu.eduFellowships and Grants2024-03-01T00:00:00+00:002024-03-01T00:00:00+00:00https://mohammadkhf.github.io/posts/blog-post-4Here, you can find the grants and fellowships I was qualified for my graduate studies
Southern Methodist University
Travel Grant for oral presentation at INFORMS annual meetings.
Travel Grant for presentation at the International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML).