Research/Consultancy Projects

TOPIC	START DATE	FIELD	FINANCIAL OUTLAY	FUNDING AGENCY	OTHER OFFICERS
Reinforcement learning as a Decision Support Tool in Nonstationary Environment	04 Oct 2021	AI in Operations Management	20 Lacs	Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy, IITR	Nil
AI-driven trading platform	07 Dec 2022	Applied AI	27 Lacs	SmartAlpha Inc., Hyderabad	Prof. R. Balasubramanian (PI)

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.
• Conference/Workshop Organized: Co-chair for Young European Queueing Theorists (YEQT) workshop 2018, Convenor for the conference on Sustainable Business Management (SBM) 2023.
• Technical programs: Technical Program Committee member for several conferences including Valuetools 2022.