Utsav Sadana

Hi! I am an Assistant Professor of Operations Research in the Department of Computer Science and Operations research (DIRO), University of Montréal.

Before this, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University. I received my Ph.D. in Management Science from HEC Montréal where I was very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Georges Zaccour. During my research in PhD/ postdoc, I have been fortunate to be mentored by Prof. Puduru Viswanadha Reddy, Prof. Erick Delage, Prof. Angelos Georghiou, and Prof. Tamer Başar.

In 2017, I graduated from IIT Kanpur with Bachelors in Materials Science and Engineering, and Masters in Economics.

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• Dynamic Programming [IFT-6521], DIRO, University of Montreal, Instructor, Winter 2024
• Business Statistics [MGCR 271], Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Instructor, Summer 2022

I am looking for PhD students with a strong background in mathematics and programming. If you are interested in decision making under uncertainty, feel free to write to me with a short description about your interests.

• Preprint, "Subsidizing a New Technology: An Impulse Stackelberg Game Approach" with Georges Zaccour, available online
• Our article, "A Survey of Contextual Optimization Methods for Decision Making under Uncertainty", published (online) in European Journal of Operational Research
• July, 2023: I have joined DIRO as an Assistant Professor of Operations Research
• June 20, 2023: Preprint: A Survey of Contextual Optimization Methods for Decision Making under Uncertainty
• Feb 6, 2023: Paper appeared as a Featured Article in the INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC)
• October 18, 2022: Teaching Excellence Award, APF, McGill University
• Sep 1, 2022: Paper accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
• Finalist for the Young Scholar Best Paper Award at ISDG, Porto, Portugal