Farzane Ezzati

Graduate Research Assitant, PhD Student

Research Projects


(2025) Riemannian ADMM for Binary Optimization


A Riemannian Manifold-Modified ADMM to Solve Large Scale/Distributed Binary Optimization Problems


(2025) Deep Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Branch-and-Price for Drone Routing


Selecting sup-problmes in column generation wisely to boost convergence speed to exact solutions.


(2025) Distributed Optimization for Energy Trading Problems


A resilience-cost-oriented energy trading model for socially vulnerable community microgrids and the solution approach.


(2024) Benders Decomposition for Stochastic Microgrid Planning


Stochastic 20-year microgrid planning model with Benders Decomposition


(2024) Seq2Seq Attention for Power Demand Prediction


GRU-based Seq2Seq model with attention to predict three quantiles of residential power demand in Texas


(2023) ML Classification for Cardiovascular Risk Prediction


Course project: ML classifiers (RF, SVM, LR, LDA) predicted cardiovascular disease with 72% accuracy