Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran
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Education
- Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 2007
- Ph.D., Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 2012
Academic Positions
- Visiting Fellow, ICERM, Spring 2023
- Visiting Fellow, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Fall 2022
- Associate Professor, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, Aug, 2021--present
- Affiliate, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, Sep, 2014--present
- Assistant Professor, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, Sep, 2014--Aug, 2021
- Simons Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Sep, 2012--Aug, 2014
Resident Instruction
- IE 310 Deterministic Models in Optimization: Spring 2016, 2022 and Fall 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023
- IE 511 Integer Programming: Spring 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021
- IE519/CS586 Combinatorial Optimization (formerly IE 598): Fall 2015 and Spring 2018, 2020, 2024
Research Interests
- Probabilistic Methods and Analysis
- Algorithms
- Mathematical Programming
- Combinatorial Optimization
Research Areas
- Data Analytics
- Operations Research
- Theory and Algorithms
Teaching Honors
- Sharp Outstanding Teaching Award in Industrial Engineering (2018)
Research Honors
- College of Computing Dissertation Prize, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012
Recent Courses Taught
- IE 310 - Determin Models in Optmzation
- IE 311 - Operations Research Lab
- IE 511 - Integer Programming
- IE 519 (CS 586) - Combinatorial Optimization