Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran

Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran
Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran
  • Associate Professor
(217) 300-1160
301 Transportation Building

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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

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