Farzaneh Farhadi, Ph.D

Farzaneh Farhadi, Ph.D.

Present Address Tel: +44-7400861109 Department of Computing, Email: [email protected] Imperial College London. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1201-3074

Employment • Royal Society- Newton International Fellow, April 2020-Present Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK

◦ Devised an incentive mechanism for automated decentralized supply chain for- mation to enable rapid construction of networks of producers that can efficiently respond to emerging market opportunities, resulting in 2 publications. ◦ Established collaborations with Aston University and University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland.

• Research Associate in Multi-agent Technologies, July 2019 - Present Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK ◦ Led an academic/industry team (3 academics and 2 industrial partners from Samsung Research UK) for a 14-month project. Delivered the key project milestones 2 months ahead of schedule. ◦ Designed intelligent personal assistants that can negotiate with each other on behalf of the users, resulting in 2 publications and 1 Android software. ◦ Developed a distributed faithful mechanism to determine the optimal settings for federated learning applications, resulting in 1 publication.

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nov. 2018 - June 2019 Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran ◦ Developed a novel technique for designing efficient information disclosure poli- cies for dynamic environments, resulting in 2 publications. ◦ Maintained collaboration with University of Michigan.

• Visiting Lecturer, Sep. 2018 - Jan. 2019 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran ◦ Designed the content of an advanced graduate course. Delivered the course to a class of 20 M. Sc. and Ph. D. students. Student feedback: Very good. ◦ Supported and mentored 2 Ph. D. students and 1 M. Sc. research project. Resulted in one publication.

• Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, April 2016 - Dec. 2017 Department of Electrical engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA ◦ Led a team of 4 to develop an incentive mechanism for improving the secu- rity of interconnected communities in an integrated city model, resulting in 2 publications. ◦ Audited several classes offered at different departments, including Departments of Economics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. Qualifications • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Communication Systems, Sep. 2012-April 2018 Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran GPA: 18.7/20

◦ Thesis Title: “Management and Efficient Allocation of Resources in Competitive Networks” ◦ Initiated a research direction focusing on designing dynamically stable incentive mechanisms. Created the first incentive mechanism that is dynamically stable. De- veloped the first analytical solution for the dynamic information design problem in the presence of strategic agents with long-run incentives. Outputs: 4 publications (2 journal papers and 2 conference papers) ◦ Secured funding from Iran’s National Elite Foundation for my project. ◦ Tutored 5 undergraduate B. Sc. students (3rd and 4th years, Electrical Engi- neering) on research skills including Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Machine Learning, and Stochastic Modeling.

• M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Communication Systems, Sep. 2010-Sep. 2012 Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran GPA: 19.66/20 ◦ Ranked 1st in my class (among 150 M. Sc. students) and won the Best Master Thesis Award at Sharif University of Technology in 2012.

• Dual Degree (B. Sc.) in Electrical Engineering and Sep. 2006-Sep. 2010 Mathematics Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran GPA: 19.28/20 ◦ Ranked 1st in my class (among 200 B. Sc. students), while completing a 5-year double-degree program in just four years.

Grants and • Newton International Fellowship, The Royal Society (April 2020-Sep. Funding 2022) This fellowship is a competitive grant awarded to early-career postdoctoral researchers. The grant consists of direct research costs and living expenses worth 125000 GBP for 2.5 years.

• Iran’s National Elite Foundation Fellowship for top Ph. D. students (2012, 2013, 2014). This fellowship is a competitive grant awarded to Ph. D. students based on their resume and an interview. The grant consists of direct research costs and living expenses worth 4000 GBP for each year.

• Visiting Grant, Iran’s Ministry of Science 2016 8600 GBP.

• Travel Grant, Iran’s National Elite Foundation 2016 12,800 GBP.

Awards • Iran’s National Elite Foundation Fellowship for top M. Sc. students (2010- 2012).

• Iran’s National Elite Foundation Fellowship for top B. Sc. students (2006- 2010).

• Admitted as an Exceptional Talent at Sharif University of Technology for M. Sc. and Ph. D. programs. • Ranked 1st among 1,300,000 participants in the Nationwide University En- trance Exam (Konkour) for engineering schools in Iran, June 2006.

Teaching • Guest Lecturer, University of Tehran, Iran, Fall 2018

◦ Designed the content of an advanced graduate course “Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems”. Delivered the course to a class of 20 M. Sc. and Ph. D. students. Workload: 30 hours. Student feedback: Very good. ◦ Supervised and assessed students’ presentations. ◦ Prepared and marked exam questions.

• Teaching Assistant, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2011-2014

◦ Delivered teaching sessions for postgraduates on Convex Optimization and Coding Theory, and for undergraduates on Digital Communication and Linear Algebra. ◦ Roles and Responsibilities: leading problem-solving classes, holding office hours, constructing exams, and grading papers.

• Private School Teacher, Allame-Helli Institute, Iran, 2006-2009

◦ Delivered Mathematics and Physics to 3 classes, each with 100+ students. Work- load: 135 hours per class. Average student feedback: 9.5/10. ◦ Tutored more than 300 high school students prepared for Iran’s University En- trance Exam (Konkour). ◦ Increased the number of students ranked below 1000 in University Entrance Exam.

Supervision • Advisor of 1 M. Sc. thesis on mechanism design, resulting in one publication (2019- 2020). • Co-advisor of 5 B. Sc. theses on game theory, mechanism design, machine learning, and stochastic modeling, all progressed and accepted into prestigious Ph.D. programs in the USA (2014-2018).

Technical • Engineering Packages Skills Simulating/Problem solving with MATLAB, R Package, and Python.

• Mathematical Packages MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple.

• Application Packages LATEX, Microsoft Office and other common productivity packages for Linux, and Windows platforms.

• Programming Languages Visual C/C++, Java, Pascal, Linux batch script. Evidence of • Co-chair of the ECC’18 session “Game Theory & Applications”, Limassol, Cyprus, Esteem June 12-15, 2018.

• Reviewer for the following journals: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and Journal of Dynamic Games and Applications

• Reviewer for the following conferences: American Control Conference (ACC) 2020, International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT) 2019, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2017, and Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT) 2014.

• Organizer of a Series of Workshops called “Scientific Friends” in my hometown for high school students. Secured a fund of 60,000 GBP from Iran’s National Elite Foundation to organize four two-day workshops in Mathematics, Physics, Computer, and Biology. Designed all workshops to be fun, energizing, and non-pressured.

Publications Working/ E. Eslami, H. Kebriaei, H. Atrianfar, and F. Farhadi “Incentive Mechanism Design Submitted for Unicast Service Provisioning with Network Aggregative Game,” In second round of Papers review, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020.

F. Farhadi, M. Chli, and N. R. Jennings “Optimal Auction Design for the Gradual Procurement of Strategic Service Providers,” working paper, 2021.

F. Farhadi, M. Chli, and N. R. Jennings “Budget Feasible Auction Design for the Gradual Procurement of Strategic Service Providers,” working paper, 2021.

B. Di, F. Farhadi, M. Ozay, and N. Jennings “Mechanism Design for Local and Global Updating Frequencies Optimization Problem in Federated Learning,” working paper, 2021.

F. Farhadi and D. Teneketzis “Dynamic Information Design for Security Investment in Large-Scale Networks,” working paper, 2021.

M. Rayati, F. Farhadi, and D. Teneketzis “Local Public Goods Provisioning in Net- works: Surrogate Optimization-based Mechanism,” working paper, 2021.

Journal F. Farhadi and D. Teneketzis “Dynamic Information Design: A Simple Problem on Papers Optimal Sequential Information Disclosure,” Forthcoming in the Journal of Dynamic Games and Applications, 2021.

F. Farhadi and N. R. Jennings “ Faithful Mechanism for Incremental Multi-Agent Agreement Problems with Self-Interested and Privacy-Preserving Agents,” in the Jour- nal of SN Computer Science, 2021.

F. Farhadi, H. Tavafoghi, D. Teneketzis, and J. Golestani, “An Efficient Dynamic Allocation Mechanism for Security in Networks of Interdependent Strategic Agents,” in the Journal of Dynamic Games and Applications, 2018.

F. Farhadi, J. Golestani, and D. Teneketzis, “A Surrogate Optimization-Based Mech- anism for Resource Allocation and Routing in Networks with Strategic Agents,” in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2017.

Conference F. Farhadi and N. R. Jennings, “A Faithful Mechanism for Privacy-Sensitive Dis- Papers tributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems,” in proceedings of the 17th European Con- ference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS), Sep. 2020. [Oral presentation]

F. Farhadi, D. Teneketzis, and J. Golestani, “Static and Dynamic Informational Incen- tive Mechanisms for Security Enhancement,” in proceedings of the European Control Conference (ECC), June 2018. [Oral presentation]

F. Farhadi, H. Tavafoghi, D. Teneketzis, and J. Golestani, “A Dynamic Incentive Mechanism for Security in Networks of Interdependent Agents,” in proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets), May 2017. [Oral presentation]

F. Farhadi and F. Ashtiani, “A Network Coding-Based Packet Forwarding Scheme for Unicast Random Access Networks with Exponential Backoff,” in proceedings of the first Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT), April 2013. [Oral presentation]

F. Farhadi and F. Ashtiani, “Throughput Enhancement of a Random Access WLAN by Combination of Digital and Analog Network Coding,” in proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2011. [Poster presen- tation]

Preprints A. M. Javid, M. Setayesh, F. Farhadi, and F. Ashtiani, “Analysis of Network Coding in a Slotted ALOHA-based Two-Way Relay Network,” available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.02041, 2016.

F. Farhadi and F. Ashtiani, “Stability Region of a Slotted Aloha Network with K- Exponential Backoff,” available at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.4448v1.pdf, 2014.