Focus Period lund 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher
Uppsala University (Sweden)
Hooman Maskan completed his PhD in Mathematical Statistics at Umeå University, where he worked under the supervision of Alp Yurtsever, funded by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP). His research centered on acceleration mechanisms in first-order methods and on difference-of-convex programming for structured nonconvex optimization. During his doctoral studies, Hooman Maskan had the opportunity to visit Konstantinos Zygalakis at the University of Edinburgh and Suvrit Sra at the Technical University of Munich. Before his PhD, he earned an MSc in Telecommunication Engineering and Signal Processing under the supervision of Mohammad Hossein Kahaie. In Spring 2026, Hooman Maskan will begin a new position at Uppsala University, working at the intersection of optimization and machine learning with Prashant Singh.