Service

Committees and Editorial Service

Thesis Committee Member for the following students:

• Daniel Neira-González (2023 - present), Ph.D. Student.
  Advisors: Subhash Sarin and Manish Bansal
• Hyunwoo Lee (2023 - present), Ph.D. Student.
  Advisors: Esra Toy and Robert Hildebrand

External Examiner for the following students:

• Mari E. Rugland (2021), "An object-oriented framework for the optimization of flexible renewable energy systems," Master’s Thesis, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, NTNU.
  Supervisors: Johannes Jäschke, Truls Gundersen, and Avinash S. R. Subramanian
• Petter E. Nordby (2021), "Optimization of flexible renewable energy systems under uncertainty," Master’s Thesis, Dept. of Energy & Process Engineering, NTNU.
  Supervisors: Truls Gundersen, Johannes Jäschke, and Avinash S. R. Subramanian

Invited Peer-Reviewer for the following funding programs:

• Panelist for the U.S. National Science Foundation, 2024.

Invited Peer-Reviewer for the following journals/conferences (Reviewer Profile):

Operations Research Mathematical Programming SIAM Journal on Optimization Journal of Global Optimization Optimization Letters Set-Valued & Variational Analysis IISE Transactions Annals of Operations Research Electric Power Systems Research American Control Conference

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications Computational Optimization and Applications INFORMS Journal on Computing Mathematics of Operations Research Optimization Methods and Software INFORMS Journal on Optimization Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology IEEE Transactions on Automation Science & Engg. Computers and Chemical Engineering

Professional and Institutional Service

Elected Vice-Chair of Global Optimization, INFORMS Optimization Society, 2025-2026

Served in the following committees at Virginia Tech:

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, ISE Department, 2023-2025
• Graduate Admissions Committee, ISE Department, 2023-2025

Session Chair at the following conferences:

• Learning and Optimization Techniques for Uncertain Systems
  2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting
• Recent Advances in Deterministic Global Optimization
  2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference
• Machine Learning for Discrete and Global Optimization I & II
  2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting
• Learning-Assisted Dynamic Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
  2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting
• Global Optimization of Stochastic and Semi-Infinite Programs
  2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting

• Computational Stochastic Programming
  2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting

Organized monthly teleconference meetings on Optimization Under Uncertainty as part of the DOE MACSER Project (Nov. 2018 to Nov. 2020)

Educational Outreach

Math Lecturer for the IIT Joint Entrance Exam (IIT JEE), 2016

• Recorded online video lectures for the entrance exam to the IITs as part of an MIT team
• Featured on MIT OpenCourseWare and supported by the MIT Office of Digital Learning

Math Olympiad Trainer, Science & Math Academy for Real Talents, India, 2008-2011

• Coached 30 middle-school and high-school students each year for the Math Olympiad
• One trainee was selected for the 2010 International Math Olympiad Training Camp

Volunteer, National Services Scheme, IIT Madras, 2008-2009

• Designed and demonstrated science experiments to students in underprivileged schools

Videos recorded as a Math Lecturer for the IIT JEE