Mohit Singh, ISyE New Faculty Hire

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Shelley Wunder-Smith

Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering

404.385.4745

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Mohit Singh joined the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) as the H. Milton Stewart Associate Professor in January 2017.

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Mohit Singh joined ISyE as the H. Milton Stewart Associate Professor in January 2017.

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Mohit Singh joined the Georgia Tech H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) as the H. Milton Stewart Associate Professor in January 2017. Prior to this, he served as a researcher in the Theory Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington.

Singh’s research interests include discrete optimization, approximation algorithms, and convex optimization. His research is focused on optimization problems arising in cloud computing, logistics, network design, and machine learning.

Singh received the Tucker Prize in 2009 given by the Mathematical Optimization Society for an outstanding doctoral thesis “Iterative Methods in Combinatorial Optimization.” He also received the best paper award for his work on the traveling salesman problem at the Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) in 2011.

Previously, Singh was an assistant professor at McGill University from 2010-2011 and a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, New England from 2008-2009. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2008 from Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.

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School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)

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Engineering
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Data Engineering and Science, Systems
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  • Created By: Shelley Wunder-Smith
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  • Created On: Jan 26, 2017 - 10:10am
  • Last Updated: Jan 26, 2017 - 10:33am