Biography

Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, where he joined in 2025. Prior to that, he was a faculty member at Delft University of Technology, having joined in 2016 following several research appointments at EPFL, ETH Zurich, and MIT between 2014 and 2016. He received the PhD degree from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and the MSc and BSc degrees from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. His research interests include theoretical and practical aspects of decision-making problems in uncertain and dynamic environments, with applications in engineering systems and management.

He currently serves as an associate editor of Operations Research, Transactions on Automatic Control, Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research, and Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization. He was one of the three finalists for the Young Researcher Prize in Continuous Optimization awarded by the Mathematical Optimization Society in 2016, and a recipient of the 2016 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society. He received the ERC Starting Grant and the INFORMS Frederick W. Lanchester Prize in 2020. He is the recipient of the 2022 European Control Award.

Positions

• 2025-present: Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada

  • Operations Research, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

  • Systems Control, Electrical & Computer Engineering (cross-appointment)

• 2021-2026: Associate Professor, TU Delft, The Netherlands

  • Delft Center for Systems and Control, Mechanical Engineering

  • Co-director, Delft-AI Energy Lab

• 2016-2021: Assistant Professor, Delft Center for Systems and Control, TU Delft, The Netherlands

• 2014-2016: Postdoctoral Researcher (multiple appointments)
  

  • Risk Analytics and Optimization Chair, EPFL, Switzerland

  • Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  • Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems, MIT, USA

• 2008-2014: Ph.D., Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• 2005-2008: M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran

• 2000-2005: B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran