Short Bio

Hello 🤗.

My name is Peyman, a Ph.D. Fellow in Computational Engineering at the University of Stavanger within the Department of Energy Resources.

I am a member of the Decision and Data Analytics research group at the University of Stavanger. I consider myself fortunate to be under the guidance of Prof. Reidar Brumer Bratvold and Dr. Aojie Hong.

My main research focus centers around:

Decision Analysis (How to Make Good Decisions)

  • Decision Quality
  • Sequential Decision Making/Analytics
  • Behavioral Challenges in Decision Making

Reinforcement Learnings

  • Dynamic Programming/Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
  • Q-Learning for finding the Optimal Policy in the American Option Pricing Problem.

Bayesian Optimization

  • Stochastic Optimization using Bayesian Optimization.

Education

  • PhD Fellow in Computational Engineering, University of Stavanger, 2021 - Present
  • MSc in Computational Modeling and Applied Mathematics (non-degree), Technical University of Denmark, 2019-2020
  • MSc in Reservoir Engineering, University of Stavanger, Norway, 2017-2019
  • BSc in Reservoir Engineering, Petroleum University of Technology, Iran, 2011-2016