Venkat Chandrasekaran

Venkat Chandrasekaran

Professor
Computing and Mathematical Sciences & Electrical Engineering
California Institute of Technology

Email: alpha@beta.edu, alpha = venkatc, beta = caltech

Office: Annenberg 300


Research Interests

My research interests broadly lie in mathematical optimization and its interface with topics in the information sciences. Specific areas of interest include convex optimization, mathematical signal processing, graphs and combinatorial optimization, applied algebraic geometry, computational harmonic analysis, and statistical inference.

A full list of publications can be found here.


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Bio (third-person)

Venkat Chandrasekaran is a Professor at Caltech in Computing and Mathematical Sciences and in Electrical Engineering. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT (2011), and he received undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University (2005). He was awarded the Jin-Au Kong Dissertation Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Electrical Engineering at MIT (2012), the Young Researcher Prize in Continuous Optimization (2013), the Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics (2016), and the INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers (2016). His research interests lie in mathematical optimization and its interface with topics in the information sciences.


Contact

Mail: 1200 E. California Blvd., Mail Code 305-16, Pasadena, CA 91125

Phone: (626) 395-6568


Last updated: December 2023