International Journals and Peer-Reviewed Conferences (Publications and Preprints)
*Student researchers in italics
- PenDer: Incorporating Shape Constraints via Penalized Derivatives
- Authors: Akhil Gupta*, Lavanya Marla, Ruoyu Sun, Naman Shukla and Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson*
- Accepted to AAAI 2021.
- Dynamics of Disruption and Recovery in Air Transportation Networks
- Authors: Max Z. Li, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Hamsa Balakrishnan, Sang Hyun Shin*, Darsh Jalan*, Aritro Nandi* and Lavanya Marla
- Accepted to the Ninth International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT), June 23-26, 2020, Tampa, Florida. [Abstract]
- Best Paper Award in System Performance track at ICRAT
- Invited paper, CEAS Aeronautical Journal
- The Impact of Climate Change on Airline Network Recoverability
- Authors: Jane Lee*, Lavanya Marla and Parth Vaishnav
- Transportation Research – Part D, Accepted. [SSRN Copy]
- Managing EMS Systems with User Abandonment in Emerging Economies
- Dynamic Airline Disruption Management under Airport Operating Uncertainty
- Authors: Jane Lee*, Lavanya Marla and Alexandre Jacquillat
- Transportation Science, Vol 54(4), June 2020. [SSRN Copy][DOI]
- Awarded Honorable Mention for the 2018 Anna Valicek Competition for original and innovative research, by AGIFORS.
- Strategic Service Logistics Games with Customer-Induced Competition
- Authors: Lavanya Marla, Jungeun Shin* and Sanyukta Deshpande*
- Under 3rd round review, Management Science. [SSRN Copy]
- Near-optimal Sampling Policies for Path Selection in the National Airspace
- Authors: Jing Gao*, Ankur Mani and Lavanya Marla
- Under review.
- Short and Wide Network Paths
- Authors: Lavanya Marla, Lav R. Varshney, Devavrat Shah, Nirmal A. Prakash* and Michael E. Gale*
- Under review. [arXiv]
- Robust Modeling and Planning: Insights from Three Industrial Applications
- How to Incorporate Monotonicity in Deep Networks while Preserving Flexibility?
- Authors: Akhil Gupta*, Naman Shukla, Lavanya Marla and Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson*
- Accepted to the Workshop on Machine Learning with Guarantees, NeurIPS 2019, Vancouver, BC, Canada. [arXiv]
- Adaptive Model Selection Framework: An Application to Airline Pricing
- Authors: Naman Shukla*, Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson*, Lavanya Marla and Kartik Yellepeddi
- Accepted to the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Real-world Sequential Decision Making Workshop, 2019, Long Beach, California, 2019. [arXiv]
- Dynamic Pricing for Airline Ancillaries with Customer Context
- Authors: Naman Shukla*, Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson*, Ken Otwell, Lavanya Marla and Kartik Yellepeddi
- Accepted to the 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 04-08, 2019. [arXiv]
- Awarded Best Presentation at the 2019 AGIFORS Revenue Management Study Group conference
- Cyber-Physical Simulation and Optimal Mitigation for Shipping Port Operations
- Authors: Gabriel A. Weaver and Lavanya Marla
- In Proceedings of the 2018 Winter Simulation Conference, Dec 9-12, Gothenburg, Sweden. [SSRN Copy]
- Robust Optimization: Lessons Learned from Aircraft Routing
- Data-driven Omniscient Bounds and Greedy Policies for Ambulance Allocation and Dynamic Redeployment
- Authors: Lavanya Marla, Yisong Yue and Ramayya Krishnan
- Under review. [SSRN Copy]
- An Empirical Analysis of Bike Sharing Usage and Rebalancing: Evidence from Barcelona and Seville
- Authors: Ahmadreza Faghih-Imani*, Robert Hampshire, Lavanya Marla, and Naveen Eluru
- Transportation Research: Part A Policy and Practice, Vol 97 (2017) 177-191. [DOI]
- Top-10 most cited paper, Transportation Research – Part A, 2016-2019
- Robust Ambulance Allocation Using Risk-based Metrics
- Authors: Kaushik Krishnan*, Lavanya Marla and Yisong Yue
- In Proceedings of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Workshop of COMSNETS (International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks) 2016, Bangalore. [DOI] [IEEE Explore]
- Vehicle Routing Problem with Time-Windows: A Deterministic Annealing Approach
- Authors: Mayank Baranwal*, Pratik M. Parekh*, Lavanya Marla, Srinivasa M. Salapaka and Carolyn Beck
- In Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2016, Boston. [DOI][IEEE Explore]
- Integrated Airline Disruption Management and Flight Planning to Tradeoff Delays and Fuel Burn
- A Decomposition Approach for Robust Commodity Pickup and Delivery with Time-Windows under Uncertainty
- An Efficient Simulation-based Approach to Ambulance Allocation and Dynamic Redeployment
- Authors: Yisong Yue, Lavanya Marla and Ramayya Krishnan
- In Proceedings of the 26th Conference on AI held by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), July 22-26, 2012.
- Acceptance rate 25%, similar to NIPS [link]
- A Decomposition Approach for Shipment Pickup and Delivery for Time-windows under Uncertainty
- Authors: Lavanya Marla and Cynthia Barnhart
- In Proceedings of the Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications, August 9-12, 2011. [link]
- Congestion in a Competitive World: A Study of the Impact of Competition on Airline Operations
- Authors: Nikolas Eggenberg and Lavanya Marla
- In Proceedings of the Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) September 9-11, 2009. [link]
Working Papers
- Lavanya Marla, “Efficient Performance Bounds for Dynamic Decisions on Large-Scale Time-Space Networks”, preprint available upon request.
- Mayank Baranwal*, Lavanya Marla, Srinivasa M. Salapaka and Carolyn Beck, “A Unified Statistical Physics Approach for a Large Class of Vehicle Routing Problems”, preprint available upon request, to be submitted shortly to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- Naman Shukla, Arinbjorn Kolbeinsson, Lavanya Marla and Kartik Yellepeddi, “From the Average to the Individual Customer: A Field Experiment on Airline Ancillary Pricing”.
- Gabriel Weaver and Lavanya Marla, “A Threat and Response Model for Automated Guided Vehicles at the Port of Auckland”, in preparation.
- Lavanya Marla and Achal Bassamboo, “Information Relaxation Bounds for Ambulance Dispatch and Allocation Policies”.
- Sanyukta Deshpande* and Lavanya Marla, “Joint Location and Coverage Models for Competitive Ambulance Services in Emerging Economies”.
Honors and Awards
- University of Illinois Center for Advanced Study Fellow 2021-22, pending Board of Trustees approval.
- Best Presentation Honorable Mention for student Jing Gao, INFORMS Aviation Applications Section 2020.
- Best paper award, System Performance track, International Conference for Research and Air Transportation (ICRAT) 2020.
- COVID-19 Research grant from Jump-ARCHES center.
- KDD Startup Research Award for paper with Deepair Solutions, 25th ACM SIGKDD, 2019.
- Top-10 most cited paper in Transportation Research – Part A, 2016-2019, “An Empirical Analysis of Bike Sharing Usage and Rebalancing: Evidence from Barcelona and Seville”.
- Best Technical Presentation, AGIFORS Revenue Management Study Group Conference, AGIFORS, May 2019.
- Gift Grant from Deepair Solutions, September 2019 – May 2020.
- National Science Foundation (NSF), NRI 1830639 (Co-PI) INT: COLLAB: Synergetic Drone Delivery Network in Metropolis, 2018 – 2021; with Profs. Naira Hovakimyan, Srinivasa Salapaka, Ranxiao Wang, Marco Pavone and Xiaofeng Wang.
- Anna Valicek Award Honorable mention — Jane Lee (2018).
- Gift Grant from Deepair Solutions, September 2018 – May 2019.
- Awarded Cross-Regional Collaboration Grant for 2017-2018 by the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) Society, sponsored by Kalyx Warehousing; with Prof. Gitakrishnan Ramadurai as Co-PI.
- Awarded as Co-PI award continuation CIRI grant by US Department of Homeland Security, July 2017 – June 2018, with Dr. Gabriel Weaver as PI.
- Awarded as Co-PI, CIRI grant by the Department of Homeland Security, in January – June 2017, with Dr. Gabriel Weaver as PI.
- United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) Indo-US 21st Century Knowledge Initiative grant, 2015-2018, with Prof. Milind Sohoni as Co-PI.
- Awarded (as Co-PI) US Department of Transportation grant to establish a University Transportation Center (UTC) at Carnegie Mellon University, January 2012.
- Invited speaker, Inaugural Transportation Science and Logistics Society Annual Workshop, June 2011.
- Winner, 2010 Ann Hershfang graduate scholarship, awarded by WTS-Boston.
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 2008-09. Awarded through MIT’s Global Airline Industry Center.
- National Merit Scholarship Fellow, National Council for Educational Research and Training, Government of India, 1998 – 2004.
Professional Activities
- Invited referee for international journals: Management Science, Transportation Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, AAAI, Decision Sciences, Networks, Journal of Air Transport Management, Transportation Research-Part C, Transportation Research- Part A, Transportation Research-Part D, Journal of Scheduling, Annals of Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Networks and Spatial Economics, Socio-Economic and Planning Sciences, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Flexible Services and Manufacturing, Decision Analysis, 4OR.
- NSF Panel Member, CMMI, 2020.
- Judging committee, INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society’s Best Dissertation Prize, 2020.
- Invited International Referee, Hong Kong Research Council (2014, 2017).
- Invited International Referee, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (2018).
- Judging committee, INFORMS Aviation Applications Section’s Best Dissertation Prize, 2017.
- Cluster Chair, INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2017, Houston, TX.
- Invited Scientific Committee member, First Transportation Science and Logistics Society Conference, 2017.
- Chair, Best Student Presentation Award committee for the Aviation Applications Society, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2016.
- Invited Keynote speaker for the Society of Women Engineers, UIUC Chapter, Fall 2015.
- Mentoring students at the UIUC INFORMS chapter.
- NSF Panel Member, CMMI, 2014.
- Judging committee, INFORMS Aviation Applications Section’s Best Dissertation Prize, 2014.
- Judging committee, IIE Transactions – Best paper Award for INFORMS, 2013.
- NSF Panel Member, Cyber-Physical Systems, 2013.
- Session Chair and organizer for Aviation Applications Session, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2011 and 2012.
- Organizing Committee Member of the 5th Annual INFORMS Professional Colloquium (IPC), April 26, 2009, at the INFORMS Practice Conference 2009, Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Co-organizer, MIT CTL (Center for Transportation and Logistics) seminar series, 2005.
- Member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).