Research Interests

Stochastic Systems: Modeling, Optimization, Control, Reinforcement and Online Learning

CV

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1. Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control and IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems
   

1. US Fulbright Specialist Scholar, 2017-2020 and Fulbright Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (July 2018)
   

1. Simons Institute Research Fellow, Spring 2018
   

1. Dileep Kalathil will join Texas A&M ECE department as assistant professor from Fall 2017. Congratulations!
   

1. Wenyuan Tang will join North Carolina State ECE department as assistant professor from Fall 2017. Congratulations!
   

1. Harsha Honnappa wins the Lajos Takacs Best Dissertation in Queueing Theory Award 2016.
   

1. Naumaan Nayyar successfully defended his PhD dissertation on “Learning and Control in Decentralized Stochastic Systems”. He joins IBM Watson Research Center in Fall 2015. Congratulations!
   

1. Wenyuan Tang has graduated with a PhD dissertation on “The SmartGrid Network: Pricing, Markets and Incentives”. He has joined UC Berkeley and Stanford as a joint postdoc in Fall 2015.
   

1. Congratulations to Abhishek Gupta (postdoc 2014-15)! He joins Ohio State ECE department as assistant professor from Fall 2015
   

1. Dileep Kalathil has graduated with a PhD dissertation on “Empirical Methods in Control and Optimization”. He has joined UC Berkeley as postdoc from October 2014
   

1. Harsha Honnappa has a graduated with a PhD dissertation on “Strategic and Transitory Models of Queueing Systems”. He joins Purdue University as assistant professor in January 2015
   

1. William Haskell (postdoc 2013-14) joins National University of Singapore as assistant professor from August 2014
   

1. Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Network Science and Engineering, March 2014 onwards
   

1. Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, April 2013 onwards
   

1. Best Student Paper award (with Srinivas Yerramalli and Ubli Mitra), Int. Conf. on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) 2012
   

1. Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award (2012)
   

1. Guest Editor-in-Chief, IEEE J. on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Economics of Communications and Networks, December 2012.
   

1. 2011 Southern California Symposium on Network Economics & Game Theory (NEGT),Caltech, November 3 & 4, 2011 (co-organizer)
   

1. International Conf. on Game Theory in Networks (Game-Nets), April 16-18, 2011, Shanghai  (TPC Co-Chair)
   

1. NSF CAREER Award, 2010
   

1. IBM Faculty Award, 2010
   

1. Best Paper Award at The ValueTools Conference 2009, Pisa, Italy, October 20-22, 2009
   

1. James H. Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Award, 2009
   

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I am always looking for smart and driven PhD students. I am currently looking for new PhD students to work on reinforcement learning. I may have a postdoc position available. If you are looking for a post-doc position, you can send me your CV and one of your best papers.

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