PhD
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Industrial Engineering
Email: aref@mie.utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-946-7233
Office: BA8112
Research Areas
Operations Research
Applied Machine Learning
Information Engineering
Research Interests
Data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, optimization, network science, mathematical modeling, graph algorithms, social network analysis, big data analytics, complex systems, and computational social science
Bio
Samin Aref is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in Data Science at the University of Toronto Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE). Prof. Aref holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Auckland (New Zealand, 2019) and an MSc in Industrial Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Iran, 2014). Prior to joining the U of T, he has been a research scientist and a research area chair at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography (Germany, 2018-2021). Prof. Aref’s research is at the intersections of Data Science, Machine Learning, Optimization, Network Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Social Computing for which he has secured funding from several organizations in Germany, New Zealand, and Canada. Since joining U of T, Prof. Aref has developed four new courses: Introduction to Machine Learning, Engineering Economics, Data Science Methods and Statistical Learning, and Integer Programming Applications, teaching over 700 students annually. He has delivered more than 90 invited and contributed talks at international conferences and workshops and has authored over 30 papers in reputable journals and conference proceedings including Nature Communications, European Journal of Operational Research, EPJ Data Science, Networks, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Journal of Computational Science, Scientific Reports, Scientometrics, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Physical Review E, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Demography, and Journal of Complex Networks. More info on saref.github.io