Anna Deza
- Phone: 617-621-7513
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
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Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2025 -
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Biography
Anna's research focuses on developing algorithms to improve the scalability of mixed-integer linear and nonlinear optimization problems. During her Ph.D., she developed methods for combinatorial regression problems that improve tractability and solution quality. Before joining MERL, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech, where she developed computational methods to accelerate the solution of distributional mixed-integer programs with applications in power systems.
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Other Publications
- , "Fair and accurate regression: Strong formulations and algorithms", INFORMS Journal on Optimization, 2026.BibTeX
- @Article{deza2026fair,
- author = {Deza, Anna and G{\'o}mez, Andr{\'e}s and Atamt{\"u}rk, Alper},
- title = {Fair and accurate regression: Strong formulations and algorithms},
- journal = {INFORMS Journal on Optimization},
- year = 2026,
- publisher = {INFORMS}
- }
- , "Sum of Squares Submodularity", arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.24550, 2025.BibTeX
- @Article{deza2025sum,
- author = {Deza, Anna and Hall, Georgina},
- title = {Sum of Squares Submodularity},
- journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.24550},
- year = 2025
- }
- , "Simulating polyculture farming to learn automation policies for plant diversity and precision irrigation", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 1352-1364, 2022.BibTeX
- @Article{avigal2022simulating,
- author = {Avigal, Yahav and Wong, William and Presten, Mark and Theis, Mark and Aeron, Shrey and Deza, Anna and Sharma, Satvik and Parikh, Rishi and Oehme, Sebastian and Carpin, Stefano and others},
- title = {Simulating polyculture farming to learn automation policies for plant diversity and precision irrigation},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering},
- year = 2022,
- volume = 19,
- number = 3,
- pages = {1352--1364},
- publisher = {IEEE}
- }
- , "Safe Screening for Logistic Regression with ℓ-ℓ Regularization.", KDIR, 2022, pp. 119-126.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{deza2022safe,
- author = {Deza, Anna and Atamt{\"u}rk, Alper},
- title = {Safe Screening for Logistic Regression with ℓ-ℓ Regularization.},
- booktitle = {KDIR},
- year = 2022,
- pages = {119--126}
- }
- , "Learning seed placements and automation policies for polyculture farming with companion plants", 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021, pp. 902-908.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{avigal2021learning,
- author = {Avigal, Yahav and Deza, Anna and Wong, William and Oehme, Sebastian and Presten, Mark and Theis, Mark and Chui, Jackson and Shao, Paul and Huang, Huang and Kotani, Atsunobu and others},
- title = {Learning seed placements and automation policies for polyculture farming with companion plants},
- booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2021,
- pages = {902--908},
- organization = {IEEE}
- }
- , "Distance between vertices of lattice polytopes", Optimization Letters, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 309-326, 2020.BibTeX
- @Article{deza2020distance,
- author = {Deza, Anna and Deza, Antoine and Guan, Zhongyan and Pournin, Lionel},
- title = {Distance between vertices of lattice polytopes},
- journal = {Optimization Letters},
- year = 2020,
- volume = 14,
- number = 2,
- pages = {309--326},
- publisher = {Springer}
- }
- , "Fair and accurate regression: Strong formulations and algorithms", INFORMS Journal on Optimization, 2026.