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    My publications

  • Better Guarantees for $k$-Means and Euclidean $k$-Median by Primal-Dual Algorithms (with Ashkan Norouzi-fard, Ola Svensson, and Justin Ward)
  • Submitted, (Arxiv version).

  • Further Approximations for Demand Matching: Matroid Constraints and Minor-Closed Graphs (with Zachary Friggstad)
  • To appear in ICALP 2017, (Conference version).

  • Approximation Algorithms for Clustering Problems with Lower Bounds and Outliers (with Chaitanya Swamy)
  • Proceedings of ICALP 2016, (Arxiv version).

  • Stabilizing Network Bargaining Games by Blocking Players (with Laura Sanità and Hamideh Hosseinzadeh)
  • Proceedings of IPCO 2016, (Conference version).

  • Approximation Algorithm for Minimum-Load k-Facility Location (with Babak Behsaz, Zachary Friggstad, Amin Jorati, Mohammad Salavatipour, and Chaitanya Swamy)
  • Proceedings of APPROX 2014, (Conference version, Journal version).

  • Local-Search Approximation Algorithms for Mobile Facility Location Problems (with Zachary Friggstad and Chaitanya Swamy) Proceedings of ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), pages 1607-1621, 2013, ( Conference version , Journal version).

  • Improved Approximation Guarantees for Lower-Bounded Facility Location (with Chaitanya Swamy)
  • Proceedings of Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA), pages 257-271, 2012, ( Conference version).

  • Construction of a Random Perfect Phylogeny Matrix (with Changiz Eslahchi, Sepideh Mahabadi, Hanieh Mirzaei, Hamid Pezeshk, and Mehdi Sadeghi)
  • Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry, 3: pages 89-96, 2010.

  • An Algorithm for Construction of all Perfect Phylogeny Matrices (with Changiz Eslahchi, Sepideh Mahabadi, Hanieh Mirzaei, Hamid Pezeshk, and Mehdi Sadeghi)
  • MATCH Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry, 62, 2: pages 251-259, 2009.

    Theses

    • PhD's thesis: Approximation Algorithms for Clustering and Facility Location Problems , University of Waterloo, April 2017.

    • Master's thesis: Improved Approximation Guarantees for Lower-Bounded Facility Location Problem , University of Waterloo, September 2010.

    • Bachelor's thesis: Parallel scheduling in directed acyclic graphs under uncertainty. (in Farsi) , Sharif University of Technology, August 2008.

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