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The Frederick E. Terman Award, Southern Methodist University
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This award is awarded each year to graduate students whose scholastic attainments and contributions to the School are judged to be in the highest tradition.
Best Graduate Poster Presentation, Southern Methodist University
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My 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.
Fellowships and Grants
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Here, you can find the grants and fellowships I was qualified for my graduate studies
Winner Operations Research and Advanced Analytics Hack-a-thon Contest among 13 Teams
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This 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.
Winner of the Operations Research department’s Outstanding Graduate Award, Southern Methodist University
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I 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.
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publications
Supply Curves in Electricity Markets: A Framework For Dynamic Modeling and Monte Carlo Forecasting
Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2022
This paper was a part of my MSc thesis
Recommended citation: S. Yıldırım, M. Khalafi, T. Güzel, H. Satık and M. Yılmaz, "Supply Curves in Electricity Markets: A Framework for Dynamic Modeling and Monte Carlo Forecasting," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 3056-3069, July 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2022.3208765
First-order methods for Stochastic Variational Inequality problems with Function Constraints
Published in arXiv, 2023
This is under second revision
Recommended citation: D Boob, Q Deng, M Khalafi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.04778, 2023
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Accelerated Primal-Dual Methods for Convex-Strongly-Concave Saddle Point Problems
Published in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
This paper was published in my first year of PhD
Recommended citation: M Khalafi, D Boob - International conference on machine learning, 2023
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Optimal Primal-Dual Algorithm with Last iterate Convergence Guarantees for Stochastic Convex Optimization Problems
Published in arXiv, 2024
This paper is under first revision
Recommended citation: D Boob, M Khalafi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.18513, 2024
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talks
Poster Presentation on Saddle-Point Problems
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I gave a poster presentation on my ICML paper “Accelerated primal-dual methods for convex-strongly-concave saddle point problems”. More information here
Talk Session on Saddle-Point Problems
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I was invited to give a talk about my ICML paper “Accelerated primal-dual methods for convex-strongly-concave saddle point problems”. More information here
Talk Session on FCVI Problems
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I was invited to a talk on FCVI paper “First-order Methods for Stochastic Variational Inequality Problems with Function Constraints”. More information here
Talk Session on Last Iterate Algorithms
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I was invited to a talk as one of the authors of the paper “Optimal Primal-Dual Algorithm with Last iterate Convergence Guarantees for Stochastic Convex Optimization Problems”.
teaching
Teaching Assistant
Undergraduate course, Sabanci University, IE department, 2019
I was a teaching assistant at Sabanci University from 2019 to 2021.