Amer Goel

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Hi, I'm Amer (rhymes with summer)! I'm a PhD student in Operations Management at the USC Marshall School of Business, where I'm fortunate to be advised by Andrew Daw and Yeganeh Almohammadi.

Recently I've been working on projects related to stochastic processes and formal mathematical modeling. In my first year, I was supported by Professor Daw's NSF CAREER Award (Grant 2441387). Now, my research is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Before coming to USC, I studied mathematics and linguistics at the University of Michigan. There, I was very lucky to have wonderful mentors. I was advised by Natasha Abner during my undergraduate thesis in Linguistics, titled Periphrastic and Simple Past Tense Syntax in Catalan. I spent the summer of 2024 at Harvard University, where I was advised by Aida Maraj and Álvaro Ribot on a project characterizing polyhedra related to tree-graphs. This work was supported by NSF Grant DMS2306672.

I've written a little economics, global affairs, law, journalism, and poetry, and worked in finance and consulting.

Outside of my research, I love modern and contemporary art (especially at the Broad!), baking custard-based desserts, and long TV series where the protagonists always win. More than anything else, I love learning languages. Please drop a word from a language you speak below!

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