Seattle, Washington, United States
I was a research scientist in the Cognitive Algorithms department (previously Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences (BAMS)) at IBM Watson Research Center. My research spanned various aspects of Combinatorial Reasoning and Optimization, including the design and analysis of efficient inference technology for propositional logic, mixed integer programming, probabilistic reasoning, algorithm selection, and reasoning about complex combinatorial spaces. I worked broadly in the area of Algorithms and Theory, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research. Smarter Energy systems and Computational Sustainability were the main application areas of my research. In particular, I was part of the SERI research team at IBM developing a state-of-the-art software and hardware platform for advanced analytics enabled by data collected from millions of smart meters and other devices.
As a Research Associate at Cornell University, I worked with Profs. Carla Gomes and Bart Selman as part of the Intelligent Information Systems Institute (IISI) and the Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS), focusing on solving hard combinatorial problems with particular emphasis on their application to sustainability related problems such as design of new materials and wildlife preservation.