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Note to prospective students
I enjoy working with graduate students. PhD students that I collaborate with me are
strong in algorithms and programming or have a strong mathematical background, ideally
both. They are passionate about solving
challenging business problems using reinforcement learning, optimization, and high
dimensional statistics. Masters
students that I
work with are computationally strong and self-motivated
to learn new technical material and methods. Please see below for past students, their
profiles, and nature of work. Before emailing me, I recommend that you do the following:
- Browse through my research publications and working papers to identify any past projects or ongoing work that is of interest to you. Read such papers more carefully and include specifics
of what you find interesting in your email.
- I welcome new ideas outside my ongoing or past work. If you are contacting me with
a new idea for collaboration, kindly indicate why my involvement would be useful (it may not be!).
- If applicable, please consult with your PhD advisor and make sure they are onboard.
PhD students
Current
- Satender Gunwal,
Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago (In progress, started in Fall 2023)
Background: BS and MS in Mathematical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)
Research interests: Energy, Reinforcement learning, Multi-objective Optimization.
- Naushara Saldin,
Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago (In progress, started in Fall 2022)
Background: BS in Finance, Business, and Computational Mathematics, University of Colombo
Research interests: Energy Operations and Finance.
Former
- Alessio
Trivella, PhD in Management Engineering, Denmark
Technical University (Graduated in Fall 2018; co-supervisors: David Pisinger and
Stein-Erik
Fleten)
Background: BSc and MSc in Mathematics, University of Milan
Thesis title: Decision making under uncertainty in sustainable energy
operations and investments
First position: Post-doctoral fellow, ETH Zurich
Current position: Assistant Professor of Operations Research, University of Twente
- Danial Mohseni Taheri,
Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago (Graduated in Spring 2021)
Background: BSc in Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology
Thesis title: Reinforcement learning for real options: Interpretable planning under uncertainty and limited data
First position: Senior Machine Learning Scientist, JP Morgan
- Andreas Kleiven,
Industrial Economics and Technology Management, NTNU (Graduated in Spring 2022; co-supervisors: Stein-Erik
Fleten)
Background: BSc in Statistics and MSc in Applied Physics and Statistics, NTNU
Thesis title: Investment and operational planning under uncertainty
First position: Power Associate, Citadel
- Bo Yang, Operations Management, Carnegie Mellon University (Graduated in Spring 2022; co-supervisors: Nicola Secomandi)
Background: BS in Industrial Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science
and Technology; MS in Management Sciences and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University
Thesis title: A pathwise optimization approach for reinforcement learning in merchant energy operations
First position: Post-doctoral fellow, Columbia University
Current position: Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Parshan Pakiman,
Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago (Graduated in Fall 2023)
Background: BSc in Applied Mathematics, University of Tehran
Research interests: Self-adapting reinforcement learning, Operations-Finance Interface.
First position: Post-doctoral fellow, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Masters students (list incomplete)
- Abhilash Chenreddy, Masters of Science in Business Analytics, University of Illinois at Chicago (Graduated in Fall 2018)
Research interests: Inverse reinforcement learning and shopper marketing
First position: Associate Data Scientist, ZS Associates
Current position: PhD student and IVADO Fellow, HEC Montreal and MILA
- Akshay Balachandran, Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (Graduated
in Spring 2017)
Research interests: Retail operations and optimization
First position: Management Consultant, CGN Global
Current position: Vice President, Alix Partners
- Karthikeyan Venugopal, Masters of Science in Information Systems, University of Illinois at Chicago (Graduated
in Fall 2015; co-supervisor: Negar Soheili)
Research interests: Retail operations and optimization
First position: Supply Chain Analyst, Home Depot
Current position: Manager of Advanced Analytics, Walmart
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