Arnesh M. Sujanani

University of Waterloo. Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. Faculty of Mathematics.

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Office: MC 5461

200 University Avenue West

Waterloo, Ontario

I am a postdoctoral fellow at University of Waterloo’s Department of Combinatorics and Optimization where I am advised by Stephen Vavasis, Henry Wolkowicz, and Walaa Moursi from C&O and Saeed Ghadimi from MS&E. I am interested broadly in continuous optimization, semidefinite programming, scientific computing, and efficient numerical methods for optimization. The main focus of my research is to develop scalable, fast, and parameter-free first order-methods for large-scale optimization.

Previously, I received my PhD in Operations Research in Summer 2024 from Georgia Tech ISyE where I was advised by Renato D.C. Monteiro. I also received my M.S. in Mathematics in Spring 2024 from Georgia Tech and a B.S. in Applied and Computational Mathematics in Spring 2019 from University of Southern California.

news

Oct 11, 2024 A new paper ``Efficient parameter-free restarted accelerated gradient methods for convex and strongly convex optimization’’ has been submitted to Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications.
Jul 10, 2024 I successfully defended my PhD in Operations Research from Georgia Tech.
May 01, 2024 I graduated with my M.S. in Mathematics from Georgia Tech.

selected publications

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    Efficient parameter-free restarted accelerated gradient methods for convex and strongly convex optimization
    A. Sujanani, and R.D.C. Monteiro
    Submitted to Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. Available on arXiv:2410.04248, 2024
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    A low-rank augmented Lagrangian method for large-scale semidefinite programming based on a hybrid convex-nonconvex approach
    R.D.C. Monteiro, A. Sujanani, and D. Cifuentes
    Submitted to Mathematical Programming. Available on arXiv:2401.12490, 2024
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    An adaptive superfast inexact proximal augmented Lagrangian method for smooth nonconvex composite optimization problems
    A. Sujanani, and R.D.C. Monteiro
    J. Scientific Computing, 2023