Mohammed Amine Bennouna
Ph.D. Candidate
Operations Research Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
About me
I am a 2nd year doctoral candidate at the MIT Operations Research Center, working with Prof. B. Van Parys and G. Perakis. Prior to joining MIT, I graduated from Ecole Polytechnique Majoring in Applied Mathematics and completed two years of preparatory program (CPGE) in Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
Papers
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On the Optimality of Distributionally Robust Optimization
with Bart Van Parys. Working paper. -
Learning the Minimal Representation of a Dynamic System from Transition Data
(See)
with Dessislava Pachamanova, Georgia Perakis & Omar Skali Lami. Submitted.- I will be presenting this paper at INFORMS 2020, November 9, session MD09.
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The Representation Power of Neural Networks: Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality
(See)
with Moise Blanchard. Submitted. -
Predicting COVID-19 Geographic Seroprevalence and Optimizing the Intervention Policy
with Georgia Perakis et al. Working Paper. -
Near Optimal Tractable Threshold Policies for Two-stage Robust Optimization Problems
with Omar El Housni & Vineet Goyal. Working Paper.- Winner of Ecole Polytechnique’s 1st Prize of research internship in Applied Mathematics.
Research Projects
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Complexity of Interior-point Algorithms: Tropical Computations (see)
with Yassine El Maazouz, Stéphane Gaubert & Xavier Allamigeon
This work is the continuity of the following paper: Log-Barrier Interior Point Methods Are Not Strongly Polynomial. -
On Random Minimal Factorizations of Large n-cycles (see)
with Yassine El Maazouz & Igor Kortchemski -
Simulating Rare Events with Hawkes Processes (see)
with Yassine El Maazouz, Emmanuel Gobet & Martin Bompaire
Teaching
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Teaching Assistant, MIT
15.093/6.255 Optimization Methods, Graduate, Fall 2020. (125 students) -
Instructor, Mathematical Olympiad
President of the Moroccan Mathematical Olympiad society. (2016-2019) -
Instructor, Institut Bossuet
Instructor in advanced mathematics for undergraduate students of top french classes préparatoire.