Mahdi JafariRaviz

About Me

I am a second-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, advised by Prof. MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi. I am a gold medalist of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), and before joining UMD, I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.

My research interests are in algorithms, combinatorics, and machine learning. I like working on problems with clear mathematical structure, strong guarantees, and practical impact.

Publications

For the most up-to-date list, see my Google Scholar.

• Failing to Explore: Language Models on Interactive Tasks. Mahdi JafariRaviz, Keivan Rezaei, Arshia Soltani Moakhar, Zahra Sodagar, Yize Cheng, Soheil Feizi. arXiv preprint, 2026. [arXiv]
• Accelerating Scientific Research with Gemini: Case Studies and Common Techniques. MohammadHossein Bateni, Simina Brânzei, Michael P. Brenner, Lin Chen, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Ying Feng, Lance Fortnow, Gang Fu, Ziyi Guan, Zahra Hadizadeh, Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi, Mahdi JafariRaviz, Lalit Jain, Adel Javanmard, Karthik C. S., Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Ravi Kumar, Silvio Lattanzi, Euiwoong Lee, Yi Li, Jieming Mao, Ioannis Panageas, Dimitris Paparas, Benjamin Przybocki, Bernardo Subercaseaux, Ola Svensson, Shayan Taherijam, David P. Woodruff, Xuan Wu, Eylon Yogev, Morteza Zadimoghaddam, Samson Zhou, Song Zuo, Yossi Matias, James Manyika, Vahab Mirrokni. arXiv preprint, 2026. [arXiv]
• How Bad Is Forming Your Own Multidimensional Opinion?. Kiarash Banihashem, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Mahdi JafariRaviz, Danny Mittal, Alipasha Montaseri. ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2025. [DOI] [arXiv]
• Value Iteration with Guessing for Markov Chains and Markov Decision Processes. Krishnendu Chatterjee, Mahdi JafariRaviz, Raimundo Saona, Jakub Svoboda. Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS), 2025. [DOI]

Contact

• Academic email: mahdij@umd.edu
• Personal email: mahdijafariraviz@gmail.com
• Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD