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Faraz Ghahremani Kooreh

PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland; IMO 2019 bronze medalist for Iran; research in algorithms, automata and causal inference
University of Maryland · College Park, Maryland, USA · academic
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Iranian computer scientist and mathematical olympiad medalist (IMO 2019 bronze). BSc in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, now a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. Research spans theoretical computer science (reachability in piecewise affine maps, decision tree learning) and causal inference, with research internships at MPI-SWS and EPFL.

Faraz Ghahremani Kooreh is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a 2019 International Mathematical Olympiad bronze medalist for Iran. He completed a BSc in Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology (2019-2024), during which he held research internships at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (2022) and EPFL (2023), working on automata/reachability problems and causal inference. He co-authored papers with Joël Ouaknine, Edon Kelmendi, Kiarash Banihashem and MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi.

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LocationCollege Park, Maryland, USA
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Notes
  • Co-authored 'Reachability in Injective Piecewise Affine Maps' (2022) with Edon Kelmendi and Joel Ouaknine during an MPI-SWS research internship, placing him in the Ouaknine automata/verification lineage.2022
  • Co-authors on 'Decision Tree Learning on Product Spaces' include UMD theory faculty MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, indicating he works within the UMD algorithms/theory group.2024
  • IMO 2019 bronze (rank 168, 22 points) for Iran; the same 2019 Iran team included Amirabbas Mohammadi and Kian Shamsaei, both also bronze medalists.Jul 2019
  • OpenReview lists confirmed institutional emails at both @umd.edu and @sharif.edu, corroborating the Sharif-to-Maryland academic trajectory.Jan 2025

Competition record

Islamic Republic of Iran · IMO

2019 · Bronze · Rank 168