CV

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Education and experience

  • Postdoctoral Fellow at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, January 2026-present
  • Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization (ACO), Georgia Tech, 2021–2025
  • Visiting Scholar at Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 2024
  • Research Scientist Intern, Amazon, Seattle, Summer 2024
  • B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2015–2019
  • Research Intern at Duke University, Summer 2018
  • Research Intern at Indian Statistical Institute Bengaluru, Summer 2017

Awards and fellowships

  • Poster on Reusing Combinatorial Structure: Faster Iterative Projections over Submodular Base Polytopes received honorable mention for best poster at Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) 2022; joint work with Hassan Mortagy and Swati Gupta.
  • ARC-ACO fellowship at Georgia Tech for Spring 2023: this is jointly awarded by the Algorithms and Randomness Center and the Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization program at Georgia Tech each year.

Publications

See the Publications page for the full list.

Service

  • Teaching Assistant at Georgia Tech, Spring 2023 and Spring 2024
  • Paper reviews for conferences and journals including FOCS, STOC, SODA, NeurIPS, ITCS, IPCO, APPROX, ACDA, Math Programming, Operations Research, and SIDMA.
  • Session co-chair on Discrete Optimization with Swati Gupta at INFORMS 2023.

Invited Talks

  • Bridging Theory and Practice for Balancing Notions of Equity with Small Portfolios at INFORMS (2024)
  • Graph theoretic tools for noise reduction in Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) at TIFR (2024)
  • Balancing Notions of Equity: Trade-offs Between Fair Portfolio Sizes and Achievable Guarantees at SODA (2025)
  • Portfolio Approximations and Fairness in Combinatorial Optimization at
    • IIT Delhi (2024)
    • IISc Bengaluru (2025)
    • IIT Bombay (2024)
  • Portfolio Approximations and Fairness in Combinatorial Optimization at INFORMS (2023)
  • Which L_p norm is the fairest? Approximations for fair facility location across all “p” at EC (2023)
  • Fairness Objectives in Facility Location Problems at INFORMS (2022)