Bharath Rangarajan Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering 111, Church Street, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Phone: 612 626 2667 Email bharath

2004, PhD, Operations Research, Cornell University (NY, USA).
2003, MS, Operations Research, Cornell University (NY, USA).
2000, Bachelors in Technology (Mechanical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology Madras (INDIA).

Research and Publications

My main area of research is Nonlinear Optimization models and Optimization Methodology. I am interested in specially structured large-scale optimization problems, currently exploring decomposition techniques with second-order information. I am interested in applications from Control Theory, Co-operative Economic Game Theory, and Inventory Models.

• (w. D. Mishra) Cost Sharing in a Job Scheduling Problem Using the Shapely Value, Social Choice and Welfare (accepted 2006). (pdf file)
• Polynomial Convergence of Infeasible-Interior-Point Methods over Symmetric Cones, SIAM J. Optimization, 16 (1211) 2006. (pdf file)
• (w. M.J. Todd) Convergence of infeasible-interior-point methods for self-scaled conic programming (Oct 2003, Technical Report TR1388, School of OR&IE, Cornell University). (ps file)

Curriculum Vitae (pdf).

Teaching

• IE5080 : Spring 2007 : Topics in IE : Introductory Course in Nonlinear Programming
• IE5531/MATH5711 : Fall 2006 : Introduction to Optimization I
• IE8534 : Spring 2006 : Topics in Nonlinear Optimization
• IE5531 : Fall 2005 : Engineering Optimization I