Nima Akbarzadeh Student (Postdoctoral), GERAD share HEC Montréal akbarzadeh.nima@gmail.com Phone: 514 340-6053 x6040 Office 5523 Other titles and affiliations McGill University Education since May 2023 Postdoctoral research HEC Montréal, Erick Delage, co-director, Yossiri Adulyasak, co-director Sep 2017 – Aug 2022 Ph.D. Restless multi-armed bandits: Indexability, Whittle Index Computation, and Learning McGill University – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aditya Mahajan, director Publications Dec 2022 Partially observable restless bandits with restarts: indexability and computation of Whittle index Nima Akbarzadeh and Aditya Mahajan 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancun, Mexico, 2022 BibTeX reference Dec 2022 Conditions for indexability of restless bandits and an \(\mathcal{O}\!\left(K^3\right)\) algorithm to compute Whittle index Nima Akbarzadeh and Aditya Mahajan Journal of Applied Probability, 54(4), 1164–1192, 2022 BibTeX reference Sep 2022 Scalable Operator Allocation for Multirobot Assistance: A Restless Bandit Approach Abhinav Dahiya, Nima Akbarzadeh, Aditya Mahajan, and Stephen L. Smith IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 9(3), 1397–1408, 2022 BibTeX reference 7 publications News Nima Akbarzadeh obtained a FRQNT scholarship Jul 20, 2020 Nima Akbarzadeh, PhD student at McGill University and supervised by Aditya Mahajan, has received the FRQNT doctoral research scholarship (B2X). Congratulations! Events Nov 2, 2023 Risk-Aware/Safe RL Workshop workshop IVADO - Institute for Data Valorization Room 4488, André-Aisenstadt Building, Université de Montréal Campus Jul 9, 202110:15 AM — 11:15 AM Restless bandits: Indexability, Whittle index computation and learning ISS Informal Systems Seminar Nima Akbarzadeh – McGill University Centre for intelligent machines (CIM) Online meeting Prizes and awards 2020 – 2022 Doctoral research scholarship FRQNT 2017 – 2019 McGill Engineering Doctoral Award McGill University