Utsav Sadana

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

Before this, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University with Prof. Mehmet Gumus, Prof. Erick Delage, and Prof. Angelos Georghiou.

I received my Ph.D. in Management Science from HEC Montréal advised by Prof. Georges Zaccour. During my Ph.D., I was fortunate to also collaborate with Prof. Puduru Viswanadha Reddy, Prof. Delage and Prof. Tamer Başar.

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

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• 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/or programming. If you are interested in control theory, game theory, robust optimization, reinforcement learning, or their applications in engineering and management problems, feel free to write to me with a short description about your interests.

• 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

• GERAD Postdoctoral Scholarship (2021-2022)
• FRQNT Postdoctoral Research Scholarship (B3X) (2021-2023)
• PBEEE/Quebec-India PhD Research Scholarship (2019-2021)
• FRQNT Doctoral Research Award (B2X) (2019-2022)
• FRQNT International Internship Scolarship (2018)
• J.A. Deseve Excellence Scholarship (2018)

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