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Haris Moazam Sheikh is a Lecturer at the University of Southampton specializing in black-box optimization techniques, topology optimization, and data-driven design. His research interests span multiple disciplines, focusing on the intersection of optimization techniques and real-world engineering applications. He addresses significant challenges such as constrained design spaces and limited computational and experimental budgets in optimization. He has received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2022, where he was awarded the prestigious Chang-Lin Tien Fellowship and the Fulbright Scholarship. His work emphasizes the development of end-to-end techniques for design optimization of expensive engineering problems, particularly in aerospace and fluid structures, and includes a focus on meta-materials. Haris is dedicated to advancing the field through innovative research that combines theoretical foundations with practical engineering solutions.