About me

Hi, I’m Mahsa Sahebdel.

I am currently a Computer Science MS/PhD student at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences in University of Massachusetts Amherst. I am working at the Sustainability, Optimization, Learning, and Algorithms Research Lab under the supervision of Mohammad Hajiesmaili. My work focuses on designing learning-augmented online algorithms for optimizing various objectives across different applications.

News

• 2025.4: Our paper, “LEAD: Towards Learning-Based Equity-Aware Decarbonization in Ridesharing Platforms” got accepted to ACM FAccT’25!

• 2024.7: Our paper, “A Safe Exploration Strategy for Model-free Task Adaptation in Safety-constrained Grid Environments” got accepted to ICDS’24!

• 2023.11: Our paper, “A Holistic Approach for Equity-aware Carbon Reduction of Ridesharing Platforms” got accepted to ACM e-Energy’24!

• 2023.6: I gave an invited talk and participated in a panel discussion at the ACM Workshop on Societal Decarbonization!

• 2023.6: I’m attending FCRC23, let me know if you are there!

• 2023.6: Our workshop paper, “Data-driven Algorithms for Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Ride-sharing Ecosystems” got accepted to ACM e-Energy’23!

• 2023.1: I received the Common Good Fellowship from CICS!

Publications

• LEAD: Towards Learning-Based Equity-Aware Decarbonization in Ridesharing Platforms
  Mahsa Sahebdel, Ali Zeynali, Noman Bashir, Prashant Shenoy, Mohammad H. Hajiesmaili (ACM FAccT 2025) – Paper

• A Safe Exploration Strategy for Model-free Task Adaptation in Safety-constrained Grid Environments
  Erfan Entezami, Mahsa Sahebdel, Dhawal Gupta
  (ICDS 2024) – Paper

• A Holistic Approach for Equity-aware Carbon Reduction of Ridesharing Platforms
  Mahsa Sahebdel, Ali Zeynali, Noman Bashir, Prashant Shenoy, Mohammad H. Hajiesmaili (ACM e-Energy 2024) – Paper

• Data-driven Algorithms for Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Ride-sharing Ecosystems
  Mahsa Sahebdel, Ali Zeynali, Noman Bashir, Mohammad H. Hajiesmaili, Jimi Oke (ACM e-Energy 2023) – Poster Paper

• TeleCrowd: A Crowdsourcing Approach to Create Informal to Formal Text Corpora
  Vahid Masoumi, Mostafa Salehi, Hadi Veisi, Golnoush Haddadian, Vahid Ranjbar, Mahsa Sahebdel (arxiv) – Paper