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Manu K. Gupta

PhD, Operations Research

Research/Consultancy Projects

TOPICSTART DATEFIELD FINANCIAL OUTLAY FUNDING AGENCY OTHER OFFICERS
Reinforcement learning as a Decision Support Tool in Nonstationary Environment04 Oct 2021AI in Operations Management20 LacsSponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy, IITRNil
AI-driven trading platform07 Dec 2022 Applied AI 27 LacsSmartAlpha Inc., Hyderabad R. Balasubramanian
AI for restless bandits and its Applications (AIRBA)12 June 2023AI for Sequential Decision Making35 Lacs + Euro 21KDST-INRIA Nicolas Gast
Sustainability and Social Welfare of National Logistic Policy15 Jan 2024Game Theory for Transportation10 Lacs ICSSR Sumit Kumar Yadav

AAAI lab

Apart from printer and a few desktops, funds from the above sponsored projects are utilized to develop a computational server facility. The server has 192 GB RAM and 48 cores with Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6248R CPU @ 3.00GHz.

This server is available to students and faculty for their research and other academic activities.

Administrative Positions

  • Faculty Coordinator, Tinkering and Mentoring Lab, MFS of data science and AI, IITR (2023-present).
  • Member, Department Administrative Committee (DAC), DoMS IITR (2022-present).
  • Faculty-in-charge, Department Time Table, DoMS IITR (2022-present).
  • Member, Department Academic Program Committee (DAPC), DoMS IITR (2021-present).
  • Chairman, Department Web Management Committee (DWMC), DoMS IITR (2022-present).
  • Member, School Faculty Search Committee (SFSC), MFS of data science and AI, IITR (2021-present).
  • Member, School Academic Program Committee (SAPC), MFS of data science and AI, IITR (2021-present).

Professional Societies and Activities

  • Memberships
    • Life - Operational Research Society of India (ORSI)
    • Life - Society of Operations Management (SOM)
    • Annual- Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
    • Annual - INFORMS College on Artificial Intelligence (CAI)
    • Annual - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • Reviewer for journals: Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, Probability in Engineering and Information Sciences, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research.
  • Conference/Workshop Organized: Co-chair for Young European Queueing Theorists (YEQT)workshop 2018, Convenor for the conference on Sustainable Business Management (SBM)2023, Organizing Committee member for a workshop on large scale optimization (LSO) 2024.
  • Technical programs: Technical Program Committee member for several conferences including Valuetools 2022.