Dr. Ali Forootani
Contact
Research Associate
Department of Bioenergy
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel: +49-341-6025-2617
ali.forootani@ufz.de
Personal website

Experience
since 2024 |
Postdoc at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Department of Bioenergy |
2022-2024 |
Postdoc & Machine Learning Scientist Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany |
2020-2022 |
Postdoc Researcher at Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland. |
2019-2020 |
Postdoc Researcher at University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy |
2015-2018 |
Ph.D. in Information Technology and Automatic Control at University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy |
2009-2011 |
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Automatic Control) SBU - School of Power and Water University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. |
Projects
Publications
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2025 (5)
- Forootani, A. (2025):
A survey on mathematical reasoning and optimization with large language models
arXiv 10.48550/arXiv.2503.17726 - Forootani, A., Iervolino, R. (2025):
Asynchronous federated learning: A scalable approach for decentralized machine learning
arXiv 10.48550/arXiv.2412.17723 - Forootani, A., Khosravi, M. (2025):
Synthetic time series forecasting with transformer architectures: extensive simulation benchmarks
arXiv 10.48550/arXiv.2505.20048 - Peterson, L., Forootani, A., Sanchez Medina, E.I., Godea, I.V., Benner, P., Sundmacher, K. (2025):
Digital twin model development for catalytic CO₂ methanation
2025 AIChE Annual Meeting, USA, Boston, MA, 02-06 November 2025 - Tipaldi, M., Iervolino, R., Massenio, P.R., Forootani, A. (2025):
A data-driven practical stabilization approach for solving stochastic dynamic programming problems
Automatica 178 , art. 112372 10.1016/j.automatica.2025.112372
2024 (3)
- Forootani, A., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Thrän, D. (2024):
Climate aware deep neural networks (CADNN) for wind power simulation
arXiv 10.48550/arXiv.2412.12160 - Forootani, A., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Thrän, D. (2024):
Bio-Eng-LMM AI assist chatbot: A comprehensive tool for research and education
arXiv 10.48550/arXiv.2409.07110 - Forootani, A., Iervolino, R., Tipaldi, M., Khosravi, M. (2024):
Off-policy temporal difference learning for perturbed Markov Decision Processes: theoretical insights and extensive simulations
IEEE Control Syst. Lett. 8 , 3488 - 3493 10.1109/LCSYS.2025.3547629