LOTUS Lab Members

Welcome to the Learning and Optimization Techniques for Uncertain Systems (LOTUS) Lab!

I am delighted to work with the following talented students:

• Dhruva Sundararajan (2024 - present), Ph.D. Student.
• Hung Tran (2024 - present), Ph.D. Student.
• Hiral Makwana (2024 - present), M.S. Student. Co-Advised with Dr. Eduardo Molina

Lab Alumni:

• Soham Mehra (Spring 2024), Undergraduate Researcher.

I have also had the privilege of mentoring the following outstanding students:

• Erin George (2023), "Graph Convolutional Neural Networks to Accelerate Solutions to Nonconvex Optimization," Applied ML Summer Fellow, LANL.
  Co-Mentors: Harsha Nagarajan and Deepjyoti Deka
• Mithun Goutham (2022), "Stochastic Optimization Models for Enhancing the Resilience of the Power Grid," Summer Student at the Center for Nonlinear Studies, LANL.
  Co-Mentors: Harsha Nagarajan and Deepjyoti Deka
• Avinash S. R. Subramanian (2021), "Optimization under Uncertainty of Hybrid Feedstock Polygeneration Systems," Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Energy & Process Engineering, NTNU.
  Advisors: Truls Gundersen and Thomas A. Adams II

Finally, I have been lucky to collaborate with the following exceptional colleagues over the years:

Arun Tangirala, IIT Madras Deepjyoti Deka, LANL Evren Turan, NTNU Güzin Bayraksan, Ohio State Harsha Nagarajan, LANL Jim Luedtke, UW-Madison

Johannes Jäschke, NTNU Line Roald, UW-Madison Nam Ho-Nguyen, University of Sydney Paul Barton, MIT Russell Bent, LANL