I’m a Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering (Operations Research) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Please visit my new website for more up-to-date information.
Education
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. in Operations Research (2016 – current)
- State University of New York at Buffalo, M.S. in Operations Research (2014 – 2016)
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, B.Tech. in Engineering Physics (2009 – 2013)
Articles Published
- Swamy, R., King, D.M., and Jacobson, S.H., 2022. Multi-objective Optimization for Politically Fair Districting: A Scalable Multilevel Approach. Operations Research
- Ludden, G.I., Swamy, R., King, D.M., and Jacobson, S.H., 2022. A Bisection Protocol for Political Redistricting. INFORMS Journal on Optimization
- Swamy, R. and Murray, T., 2020. Computing Equilibrium in Network Cost-Sharing and Discrete Election Games. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, pp. 1-29
- Swamy, R., Murray, T., and Garg, J., 2018. Network Cost-Sharing Games: Equilibrium Computation and Applications to Election Modeling. Combinatorial Optimization and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11346, pp. 722-738 [pre-print]
- Swamy, R., Kang, J. E., Batta, R. and Chung, Y., 2017. Hurricane evacuation planning using public transportation. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 59, pp. 43-55
Awards and Honors
- First Place (out of 51 submissions), INFORMS Best Service Science Paper Award Competition 2019
- Finalist (out of 39 submissions), INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award 2018
- First Place (out of 30 posters), INFORMS Poster Competition Award 2018
- Recipient, UIUC ISE Graduate Service Awards 2016-18
- Recipient, SUNY Buffalo Thomas-Drury Industrial Engineering Scholarship 2014-15
Community and Professional Service
- Science Lab Coordinator, Champaign Juvenile Detention Center Outreach Program (2019 – 2020)
- Lead Editor, OR/MS Tomorrow (2017-19)
- Diversity Advocate, UIUC Engineering Graduate Student Advisory Committee (2018-19)
- President, INFORMS UIUC Student Chapter (2016-18)
Other Experience
- Summer Fellow, Data Science for Social Good Atlanta (2015)
- Business Analyst, KPMG (2013 -14)
- Summer Intern, Asea Brown Bovery (2011)
Teaching Assistantships
- Simulation (CS 482/IE 413) – Spring 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
- Stochastic Processes (CS 481/IE 410) – Fall 2019, 2020
- Big Graphs and Social Networks (IE 533) – Fall 2018
- Analysis of Network Data (IE 532) – Fall 2017
- Facilities Planning and Design (IE 360) – Fall 2016, 2018
- Engineering Design Optimization (SE 413) – Spring 2016