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:

Ph.D. Students:

• 
  Chris Raymond-Bertrand
  (2025 - present)
• 
  Dhruva Sundararajan
  (2024 - present)

M.S. Students:

• 
  Atharva Anchalwar
  (2025 - present)
• 
  Hiral Makwana
  (2024 - present)
• 
  Padmapriya Rengasamy
  (2025 - present)

B.S. Students:

• 
  Antonio Ortega Vicente
  (2025 - present)
• 
  Gavin Esperanza
  (2025 - present)
• 
  Jude Sanborn
  (2025 - present)

Lab Alumni:

• Soham Mehra, B.S. in ISE, 2025.

I have also had the privilege of mentoring the following outstanding students prior to joining VT:

• 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 Luke Achenie, VT Manish Bansal, VT Nam Ho-Nguyen, University of Sydney Paul Barton, MIT Russell Bent, LANL