About Me
I am a PhD candidate in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. Before coming to Cornell, I was a Master's student at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where my research involved vibration control and estimation of tumor motion for radiation therapy.
I completed my undergraduate studies in Mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India in 2003. From 2003 to 2007, I worked in the energy sector in India.
Research Interests
My broad interests are in the area of stochastic modeling and optimization under uncertainty. At Cornell my research mainly involves stochastic dynamic programming and its applications in developing energy efficient dynamic resource allocation policies for cloud computing facilities and telecommunication networks.
Publications
- Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Motion of Lung Tumors for Image Guided Radiation Therapy
- Design of input shapers using modal cost for multi-mode systems
- Dynamic Service Rate Control for a Single Server Queue with Markov Modulated Arrivals
- Dynamic resource management for parallel queues with shared pool of flexible servers(working paper)
Invited Talks
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco (Nov 2014)
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis (Nov 2013)
Teaching
Cornell University
- Instructor: Engineering Stochastic Processes (Summer 2014)
- Teaching Assistant: Stochastic Processes, Simulation, Systems Engineering, Optimization I & II
State University of New York at Buffalo
- Teaching Assistant: Continuous control systems, Systems Analysis, Instrumentation and Computers
Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
292 Rhodes Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, 14853
rk454_at_cornell.edu