Abdullah Alomar

Abdullah Alomar

Graduate Student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About

I am a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. I’m affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Devavrat Shah.

Interests

  • Time Series Analysis.
  • Reinforcement Learning.
  • High-dimensional Statstics.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (expected), 2024

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2021

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • M.Sc. in Computational Science and Engineering, 2021

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 2016

    King Saud University

Projects

Multivariate Singular Spectrum Analysis

Theoritical and empirical analysis of Multivariate Singular Spectrum Analysis (mSSA).

Time Series Prediction Database (tspDB)

Enabling predictive query functionalities in PostgreSQL by building an additional “prediction index” for time-series data.

Recent Publications

Change Point Detection via Multivariate Singular Spectrum Analysis

NeurIPS 2021
Arwa Alanqary, Abdullah Alomar, Devavrat Shah
PDF Project

PerSim: Data-Efficient Offline Reinforcement Learning with Heterogeneous Agents via Personalized Simulators

NeurIPS 2021
Anish Agarwal, Abdullah Alomar, Varkey Alumootil, Devavrat Shah, Dennis Shen, Zhi Xu, Cindy Yang
PDF

On Multivariate Singular Spectrum Analysis

SIGMETRICS, 2022
Anish Agarwal, Abdullah Alomar, Devavrat Shah
PDF Project

Two Burning Questions on COVID-19

Memo, 2020
Anish Agarwal, Abdullah Alomar, Arnab Sarker, Devavrat Shah, Dennis Shen, Cindy Yang
PDF

tspDB: Time Series Predict DB

NeurIPS 2020 Demo
Anish Agarwal, Abdullah Alomar, Devavrat Shah
PDF Project Video

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Senior Data Scientist Intern

IBM

Jun 2021 – Sep 2021 Remote
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Research Assistant

Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT

May 2019 – Present Cambridge, MA
 
 
 
 
 

Research Specialist

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)

Oct 2016 – Jun 2018 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST)

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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