Theses

• Algorithmic Interactions with Strategic Users: Incentives, Interplay, and Impact
  Alireza Fallah
  Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2023.
  Thesis Committee: Asu Ozdaglar, Daron Acemoglu, and Costis Daskalakis
  ACM SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention

• Robust Accelerated Gradient Methods for Machine Learning
  Alireza Fallah
  Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2019.
  Ernst A. Guillemin Best Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering (1st prize)

Preprints and working papers

• High-Probability Bounds For Heterogeneous Local Differential Privacy
  with Maryam Aliakbarpour, Swaha Roy, and Ria Stevens, 2025.

• The Statistical Fairness-Accuracy Frontier
  with Annie Ulichney and Michael I. Jordan, 2025.
  • Shorter version accepted at the 2025 NeurIPS Workshop on Reliable ML from Unreliable Data

• A General Framework for Estimating Preferences Using Response Time Data
  with Federico Echenique and Michael I. Jordan, 2025.

• On Three-Layer Data Markets
  with Michael I. Jordan, Ali Makhdoumi, and Azarakhsh Malekian
  Revise & Resubmit, Quantitative Economics, 2025.
  • Shorter version accepted for Oral presentation at the ICML Workshop on Agentic Markets, 2024 [Video].

• The Limits of Price Discrimination Under Privacy Constraints
  with Michael I. Jordan, Ali Makhdoumi, and Azarakhsh Malekian, 2024
  • Conference version accepted at the 2024 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting (ESIF-AIML2024).

Publications

• Enhancing Feature-Specific Data Protection via Bayesian Coordinate Differential Privacy
  with Maryam Aliakbarpour, Syomantak Chaudhuri, Thomas A. Courtade, and Michael I. Jordan
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025.

• Fair Allocation in Dynamic Mechanism Design
  with Michael I. Jordan and Annie Ulichney
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
  • Shorter version accepted at the ICML Workshop on Humans, Algorithmic Decision-Making and Society, 2024.

• Contract Design With Safety Inspections
  with Michael I. Jordan
  ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2024 [Video].
  • Also accepted at the Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC) [non-archival track], 2024

• How Good Are Privacy Guarantees? Platform Architecture and Violation of User Privacy.
  with Daron Acemoglu, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian, and Asuman Ozdaglar
  Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), 2023 [Video].
  • Journal Version: Major Revision, Mathematics of Operations Research, 2025.

• Bridging Central and Local Differential Privacy in Data Acquisition Mechanisms
  with Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian, and Asuman Ozdaglar
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022.

• Optimal and Differentially Private Data Acquisition: Central and Local Mechanisms
  with Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian, and Asuman Ozdaglar
  Operations Research, 2024.
  • ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2022 [Video].
  • Short version accepted at the ICML Workshop on Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP), 2022.

• Optimal Adaptive Testing for Epidemic Control: Combining Molecular and Serology Tests
  with Daron Acemoglu, Andrea Giometto, Daniel Huttenlocher, Asuman Ozdaglar, and Sarath Pattathil
  Automatica, 2024.

• Robust Distributed Accelerated Stochastic Gradient Methods for Multi-Agent Networks
  with Mert Gürbüzbalaban, Asuman Ozdaglar, Umut Simsekli, and Lingjiong Zhu.
  Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2022.

• Generalization of Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning Algorithms: Recurring and Unseen Tasks
  with Aryan Mokhtari and Asuman Ozdaglar
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021.

• On the Convergence Theory of Debiased Model-Agnostic Meta-Reinforcement Learning
  with Kristian Georgiev, Aryan Mokhtari, and Asuman Ozdaglar
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021.

• Entropic Compressibility of Lévy Processes   
  with Julien Fageot and Thibaut Horel.
  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2022.

• Private Adaptive Gradient Methods for Convex Optimization
  with Hilal Asi, John Duchi, Omid Javidbakht, and Kunal Talwar.
  International Conference in Machine Learning (ICML), 2021.

• A Wasserstein Minimax Framework for Mixed Linear Regression
  with Theo Diamandis, Yonina Eldar, Farzan Farnia, and Asuman Ozdaglar.
  International Conference in Machine Learning (ICML), 2021 [accepted for Oral presentation].

• Personalized Federated Learning with Theoretical Guarantees: A Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning Approach 
  with Aryan Mokhtari and Asuman Ozdaglar.
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020.

• On the Convergence Theory of Gradient-Based Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning Algorithms
  with Aryan Mokhtari and Asuman Ozdaglar.
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2020.

• An Optimal Multistage Stochastic Gradient Method for Minimax Problems
  with Asuman Ozdaglar and Sarath Pattathil.
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (IEEE CDC), 2020.

• A Universally Optimal Multistage Accelerated Stochastic Gradient Method
  with Necdet Serhat Aybat, Mert Gürbüzbalaban, and Asuman Ozdaglar.
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019.

• Robust Accelerated Gradient Methods for Smooth Strongly Convex Functions
  with Necdet Serhat Aybat, Mert Gürbüzbalaban, and Asuman Ozdaglar.
  SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT), Volume 30, Issue 1, pages 717-751, 2020.

• Multidimensional Lévy White Noise in Weighted Besov Spaces
  with Julien Fageot and Michael Unser.
  Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Volume 127, Issue 5, 2017.

• Sampling and Distortion Tradeoffs for Indirect Source Retrieval
  with Elahe Mohammadi and Farokh Marvasti.
  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 63, no. 11, pp. 6833-6848, 2017.
  • 2016 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP).