Research

Work in Progress

1. Compelled Conclusions Over Model Classes: Beyond Knife-Edge Degeneracies

   Moeen Nehzati, and Diego Cussen
2. Nash-in-Nash Equilibrium with Inefficient Contracts

   Diego Cussen, and Moeen Nehzati

Published and Preprints

2026

1. arXiv

   Inference From Random Restarts

   Moeen Nehzati, and Diego Cussen

   arXiv, 2026

   R&R at ACM EC

   Link
2. ICML

   Universal Representation of Generalized Convex Functions and their Gradients

   Moeen Nehzati

   ICML, 2026

   Bib Link

   @article{nehzati2025universal,
     title = {Universal Representation of Generalized Convex Functions and their Gradients},
     author = {Nehzati, Moeen},
     year = {2026},
     eprint = {2509.04477},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {math.OC},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04477},
     status = {published},
     keywords = {published},
     publisher = {ICML}
   }

2025

1. Nat. Genet.

   Family-based genome-wide association study designs for increased power and robustness

   Junming Guan, Tammy Tan, Seyed Moeen Nehzati , and 4 more authors

   Nature Genetics, 2025

   Bib Link

   @article{guan2025family,
     title = {Family-based genome-wide association study designs for increased power and robustness},
     author = {Guan, Junming and Tan, Tammy and Nehzati, Seyed Moeen and Bennett, Michael and Turley, Patrick and Benjamin, Daniel J and Young, Alexander Strudwick},
     journal = {Nature Genetics},
     pages = {1--9},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {Nature Publishing Group US New York},
     url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02118-0},
     status = {published},
     keywords = {published}
   }

2024

1. medrXiv

   Family-GWAS reveals effects of environment and mating on genetic associations

   Tammy Tan, Hariharan Jayashankar, Junming Guan , and 8 more authors

   medRxiv, 2024

   Bib Link

   @article{tan2024family,
     title = {Family-GWAS reveals effects of environment and mating on genetic associations},
     author = {Tan, Tammy and Jayashankar, Hariharan and Guan, Junming and Nehzati, Seyed Moeen and Mir, Mahdi and Bennett, Michael and Agerbo, Esben and Ahlskog, Rafael and Pinto de Andrade Anapaz, Ville and {\AA}svold, Bj{\o}rn Olav and others},
     journal = {medRxiv},
     pages = {2024--10},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press},
     url = {https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.01.24314703v1},
     status = {preprint},
     keywords = {preprint}
   }

2022

1. Nat. Genet.

   Mendelian imputation of parental genotypes improves estimates of direct genetic effects

   Alexander Young, Moeen Nehzati, Stefania Benonisdottir , and 7 more authors

   Nature Genetics, 2022

   Bib Link

   @article{young2022mendelian,
     title = {Mendelian imputation of parental genotypes improves estimates of direct genetic effects},
     author = {Young, Alexander and Nehzati, Moeen and Benonisdottir, Stefania and Okbay, Aysu and Jayashankar, Hariharan and Lee, Chanwook and Cesarini, David and Benjamin, Daniel J and Turley, Patrick and Kong, Augustine},
     journal = {Nature Genetics},
     volume = {54},
     number = {6},
     pages = {897--905},
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {Nature Publishing Group US New York},
     url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01085-0},
     status = {published},
     keywords = {published}
   }

2. Nat. Genet.

   Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals

   Aysu Okbay, Yeda Wu, Nancy Wang , and 8 more authors

   Nature Genetics, 2022

   Bib Link

   @article{okbay2022polygenic,
     title = {Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals},
     author = {Okbay, Aysu and Wu, Yeda and Wang, Nancy and Jayashankar, Hariharan and Bennett, Michael and Nehzati, Seyed Moeen and Sidorenko, Julia and Kweon, Hyeokmoon and Goldman, Grant and Gjorgjieva, Tamara and others},
     journal = {Nature Genetics},
     pages = {1--13},
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
     url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01016-z},
     status = {published},
     keywords = {published}
   }

2021

1. arXiv

   Building Stable Off-chain Payment Networks

   MohammadAmin Fazli, Moeen Nehzati, and MohammadAmin Salarkia

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.03367, 2021

   Bib Link

   @article{fazli2021building,
     title = {Building Stable Off-chain Payment Networks},
     author = {Fazli, MohammadAmin and Nehzati, Moeen and Salarkia, MohammadAmin},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.03367},
     year = {2021},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03367},
     status = {preprint},
     keywords = {preprint}
   }