Mohajer, Ali

Ali Mohajer earned his PhD in mathematics from The University of Illinois–Chicago in 2018. Prior to joining the Tulane faculty, he taught mathematics at UIC, at Loyola University New Orleans, and at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. At UIC, he also supervised and directed student research in the Mathematical Computing Laboratory. He has also worked in community outreach through mathematics education under the auspices of Math Circles of Chicago. His areas of research interest are discrete optimization and biostatistics, and he currently consults to the pharmaceutical industry in the rare disease and orphan drug space. His current research is inspired and motivated by his early interest in inorganic chemistry. Prior to his career in mathematics, he worked as a program manager in the Windows product group at Microsoft; as a technology consultant in the media, transportation and manufacturing industries; and as an operations manager at a few Silicon Valley startups.