Sadegh Shirani

About me

I am a fourth-year PhD student in Operations, Information & Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where I'm fortunate to be advised by Mohsen Bayati.

My research explores questions related to causal inference, reinforcement learning, and stochastic optimization, particularly in the context of designing experiments in the presence of complex network interference effects.

Email: sshirani 'at' stanford 'dot' edu

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Working Papers

(1) Can We Validate Counterfactual Estimations in the Presence of General Network Interference?

with, Yuwei Luo, William Overman, Ruoxuan Xiong, M. Bayati, 2025.

(2) Asymptotic Analysis of Multi-Class Advance Patient Scheduling

with H. Abouee-Mehrizi and M. K. S. Faradonbeh, Major Revision at Management Science, 2024.

Journal Papers

(1) Causal Message Passing for Experiments with Unknown and General Network Interference

with M. Bayati, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 121(40), 2024.

(2) Departure Time Choice Models in Urban Transportation Systems Based on Mean Field Games

with M. Ameli, JP Lebacque, H. Abouee-Mehrizi, L. Leclercq, Transportation Science 56(6):1483-1504, 2022.

Refereed Conference Papers

(1) Higher-Order Causal Message Passing for Experimentation Under Unknown Interference

with M. Bayati, Yuwei Luo, William Overman, Ruoxuan Xiong, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

(2) Online Reinforcement Learning in Stochastic Continuous-Time Systems

with M. K. S. Faradonbeh, Proceedings of Thirty Sixth Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), PMLR 195:612-656, 2023.

(3) Thompson Sampling Efficiently Learns to Control Diffusion Processes

with M. K. S. Faradonbeh and M. Bayati, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022.

(4) Bayesian Algorithms Learn to Stabilize Unknown Continuous-Time Systems

with M. K. S. Faradonbeh, IFAC International Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Control Systems (ALCOS), 2022

(5) Mean Field Games Framework to Departure Time Choice Equilibrium in Urban Traffic Networks

with M. Ameli, JP. Lebacque, H. Abouee-Mehrizi, L. Leclercq, Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting (TRB), 2021