Amir Ali Ahmadi is a professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University.

and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008 and 2011 respectively, where he was supervised by Pablo Parrilo.

After this, he spent a year in the Robot Locomotion Group at MIT as a postdoctoral fellow before joining the IBM Watson Research Center in 2012 as a Herman Goldstine Fellow.

[1] He is now professor in the department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University.

[3] He is also the recipient of the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science[4][5] and 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.