Omar Bennouna
Ph.D. Candidate
MathWorks Fellow
EECS department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contact:
omarben [at] mit.edu
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About me
I am a PhD student at the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department. Prior to joining MIT, I graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 2022 Majoring in Applied Mathematics and completed two years of preparatory program (CPGE) in Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions regarding my curriculum or anything else I can help with.
Papers
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The Geometry of Linear Program Compression: An Exact Characterization and Learning Algorithm Accepted in NeurIPS 2026
Yuhan Ye, Omar Bennouna. -
Non-adaptive Experimentation for Decision-Making Working paper
Yassir Alghouass, Omar Bennouna, Amine Bennouna, Saurabh Amin & Asuman Ozdaglar. -
Data Informativeness in Linear Optimization under uncertainty . Under review
Omar Bennouna, Amine Bennouna, Saurabh Amin & Asuman Ozdaglar. -
What Data Enables Optimal Decisions? An Exact Characterization for Linear Optimization Accepted in NeurIPS 2025.
Omar Bennouna, Amine Bennouna, Saurabh Amin & Asuman Ozdaglar. -
Addressing misspecification in contextual optimization
Accepted in ICML 2025.
Omar Bennouna, Jiawei Zhang, Saurabh Amin & Asuman Ozdaglar.
Talks
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Data Informativeness in Linear Optimization under Uncertainty
Caltech RSRG/FALCON Seminar | Virtual | May 14, 2026 -
What Data Enables Optimal Decisions? An Exact Characterization for Linear Optimization
INFORMS Optimization Society Conference | Atlanta, Georgia | March 20–22, 2026
INFORMS Annual Meeting | Atlanta, Georgia | October 27, 2025
INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analytics Workshop | Atlanta, Georgia | October 25, 2025 -
Addressing Misspecification in Contextual Optimization
MLxOR Workshop at NeurIPS | San Diego, California | December 6, 2025 | Poster Session 3
Sanjoy K. Mitter LIDS Student Conference | MIT | January 30, 2025
INFORMS Annual Meeting | Seattle, Washington | October 21, 2024
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) | Montréal, Canada | July 25, 2024
INFORMS Optimization Society Conference | Houston, Texas | March 22, 2024
Industry Experience
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Netflix | Research Scientist Intern
Los Gatos, California | June - August 2026
Worked with the Machine Learning and Inference Research team to fine-tune autoregressive models for Netflix's homepage generation. -
Waymo | Data Scientist Intern
Mountain View, California | June - August 2025
Worked with the safety team to model human behavior and generate realistic traffic scenarios using diffusion models.
Teaching
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Inference and Information, MIT 6.7800 | Teaching Assistant
Graduate (Masters, PhDs, MBA), Spring 2026. (126 students)
Rated 7.0/7 by students.
Books
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Topology, linear and general algebra and probabilities book for MP/MP* students by Omar Bennouna, Issam Tauil and M.C. (see)
A book containing everything in mathematics a French undergraduate needs to prepare for top French engineering schools including Ecole Polytechnique and ENS. Can be downloaded for free in cpge-paradise.com.
Helpful ressources
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cpge-paradise.com
I have put all of my CPGE documents, advice and knowledge into one single site accessible via the link above.