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

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
• IE 598 KC - Combinatorial Optimization