{"id":718,"date":"2019-07-30T14:41:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=718"},"modified":"2019-09-26T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T18:05:13","slug":"pirooz-vakili","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/profile\/pirooz-vakili\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirooz Vakili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pirooz Vakili\u2019s interests encompass simulation and statistical quality control, as well as stochastic processes and optimization. His research focuses on the modeling, analysis, optimization, and control of stochastic systems in applications ranging from finance, renewable energy, to computational structural biology.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Research Areas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Development of efficient Monte Carlo methods<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to allow for performance and sensitivity evaluation and optimization for stochastic systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Advancements in methods of computational finance<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> lead to analysis and optimization of the investment process\/decisions during new product development.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Manifold optimization algorithms <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to improve the efficiency of sampling in both global and local (flexible) protein-protein docking simulations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Quick Links<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=xTLyEI4AAAAJ\">Publications<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13775,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13775"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/718\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}