I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Washington, advised by Kevin Jamieson and Lillian Ratliff. Previously, I completed my M.Sc. at the University of Alberta under the supervision of Csaba Szepesvári. My main research interests lie in sequential decision making.

You can contact me via alirezaa AT cs DOT washington DOT edu.

Publications

Eluder dimension: localise it!
Alireza Bakhtiari, Alex Ayoub, David Janz, Samuel Robertson, Csaba Szepesvári (NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight)

Thompson Sampling for Bandit Convex Optimization
Alireza Bakhtiari, Tor Lattimore, Csaba Szepesvári (COLT 2025)

Rectifying Regression in Reinforcement Learning
Alex Ayoub, David Szepesvári, Alireza Bakhtiari, Csaba Szepesvári, Dale Schuurmans (RLC 2025)

Regret Minimization via Saddle Point Optimization
Johannes Kirschner, Alireza Bakhtiari, Kushagra Chandak, Volodymyr Tkachuk, Csaba Szepesvári (NeurIPS 2023)

Efficient Planning in Combinatorial Action Spaces with Applications to Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Volodymyr Tkachuk*, Alireza Bakhtiari*, Johannes Kirschner, Matej Jusup, Ilija Bogunovic, Csaba Szepesvári (AISTATS 2023)