Jitamitra Desai

Department of
Industrial & Systems Engineering
200 W Packer Avenue, #325 Mohler
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Phone: 610-758-4879
E-mail: jdesai “at” lehigh
“dot” edu
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Visiting
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial & Systems
Engineering
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Doctor
of Philosophy., Industrial & Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech,
Master
of Science., Industrial & Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech,
Bachelor
of Technology., Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M), Chennai,
India.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Global Optimization/Nonconvex Analysis
Mixed-integer Nonlinear Programming
Optimization in Decision Analysis
Optimization in Transportation Networks
Semidefinite Programming
Optimization Software
PAPERS & TALKS
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TEACHING INTERESTS
Linear-, Nonlinear-, and Integer
Programming
Convex Analysis/Global Optimization
Graph Theory and Network Optimization
Optimization Models and Software
Topics in Applied OR
COURSES
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Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University
Department
of Industrial and Systems Engineering @ Lehigh
Grado
Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering @ Virginia Tech
Dr. Hanif D.
Sherali’s homepage
INFORMS
student chapter @ Lehigh
Operations
Research: The Science of Better
Computational
Optimization @ Lehigh