Author: swatig
For scalable structured optimization, we have pushed the boundaries of running time and solution quality by (i) bridging discrete and continuous optimization, (ii) developing novel approximation methods, often…
This theme considers problems where there are multiple objectives we care about – these might come from various stakeholder preferences, notions of fairness, statistical metrics in machine learning…
To tackle noise and uncertainty in observed data, we develop new models to capture variability in data due to various socio-economic reasons and analyze these to understand the…
05/2025: Our paper on “Navigating the Social Welfare Frontier: Portfolios for Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning” is accepted to ICML 2025! 04/2025: My NSF CAREER proposal has been terminated. It…
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Instructor: Swati GuptaOffice: Groseclose Building 437Contact: swatig@gatech.eduLecture: M,W 3:30PM – 4:45PM, Groseclose 402 Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00 – 3:00PM or by appointment. Course Description: We will study the theoretical…
Board Games at Swati’s Place, with Thomas, Jai, Eric, Swati. December 2024 Dinner at Helmand with our alum Hassan, and friends from GT Jai, Madeleine. October 2024 Lunch…
Spring 2022. Instructor: Dr. Swati Gupta,Assistant Professor and Fouts Family Early Career Professor,School of Industrial and Systems Engineering,Affiliations: Center for Machine Learning, ACO Program, Algorithms and Randomness Center, Physical…
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.“– Isaac Newton My research philosophy is to work on problems that not only advance…
Spring 2021 Instructor: Dr. Swati Gupta,Assistant Professor and Fouts Family Early Career Professor,School of Industrial and Systems Engineering,Affiliations: Center for Machine Learning, ACO Program, Algorithms and Randomness Center, Physical…
Georgia Tech – Fall 2020 Tuesday, Thursday 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm, Remote Synchronous Teaching This is a TENTATIVE SYLLABUS, subject to change, as the pandemic situation develops…
Semester: Spring 2020Instructor: Swati GuptaOffice: Groseclose Building 437Contact: swatig@gatech.eduLecture: Tu, Th 4:30-5:45 PM, ISyE Main 126Office Hours: By appointment Description: We will study classical as well as recent…
Fall 2019, Course Website: canvas.gatech.edu Tuesday, Thursday 3:00 – 4:15 pm, Love (MRDC II) 185 Instructor: Prof. Swati Gupta, Office: Groseclose 437, Email: swatig@gatech.eduOffice hours: Wednesdays 4:00 to 5:00 pm…
Please feel free to email Dr. Gupta if you do not find the code you are looking for. Optimization and Learning Combinatorial Instances for Quantum Benchmarking (CI-QuBe) Walking…
Instructor: Swati GuptaOffice: Groseclose Building 437Contact: swatig@gatech.eduLecture: Tu, Th 3:00-4:15 PM, ISyE Main 126Office Hours: Tu 4:15-5:15 PM. Description: We will study classical as well as recent results…
Upcoming talks/panels: (Keynote) Gavriel Salvendy International Symposium on Frontiers in Industrial Engineering – Purdue Quantum AI (PQAI) 2025, October 2025 7th Conference on Discrete Optimization X Machine Learning (DO…
Course Website: canvas.gatech.edu Description: At the heart of most machine learning applications today – like advertisement placement, movie recommendation, and node prediction in evolving networks – is an…
I believe that foundational understanding of optimization and the nuanced challenges of reliable, robust and trustworthy AI are crucial to preparing the next generation of leaders and scientists….
What is the impact of algorithms around us on our society and the choices we make? How are these algorithms affected by competition and how can they exploit monopoly? When…
Data is always embedded in a context, and in understanding that context we can begin to see its limits and its biases… The challenge is to move from…
Uber has become a hot topic of discussion among academics and non-academics: from the dynamics of ride sharing platforms, competition between Uber and Lyft, speculation about possible strategies…
Panoramia is a self-portrait studio. I created Panoramia by taking an everyday technology (iPhone’s camera feature) and wondering about how it could be used differently. Panoramia uses a…
As I attended the Keynote by Andreas Gal yesterday at the Data Transparency Lab (http://dtlconferences.org/), I realized one very disturbing fact: most of us do not value…
May 31st, 2012. Our BLOSSOMS Learning Video. To quote the BLOSSOMS Newsletter (http://blossoms.mit.edu): “Exponentials. Geometric growth. Geometric decay. What do these terms mean? Well, there are formulas. A teacher…
This is my upcoming project for an exhibit at the MIT Museum! Here are some shots from recent test runs!! 😀 https://www.flickr.com/photos/swati1729/albums
March 14, 2015. On Pi Day (i.e. 3.14/2015), I exhibited a series of my panorama photographs under the theme “Water” as a part of the Graduate Arts Soiree…
I recently made an ambigram for the Prime Minister of India! It reads “Narendra Modi” one way and “Pride of India” the other way!! My father presented the…
Smart phones these days come built in with a panorama feature that enables one to take a continuous image with an elongated field of view. This panorama feature…
This one is another one of my favorites. I made it when I was at Bangalore, inspired by a photograph from a magazine.
I’m a fifth year graduate student at the Operations Research Center (ORC) and Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), MIT. I am delighted to have Michel Goemans and…
My great grandfather died under mysterious circumstances, no one knows the full story. The villagers wouldn’t tell us what happened, so we assumed he had some sort of…
An initiative started by me, Aditi and Shantanu, with the help of a couple of friends to create a dialogue about gender sensitization through art. [more coming up…
I was a part of the Sangam Executive Team in the year 2012-2013. We organized Diwali Night, the biggest cultural event of the year! I was in charge…
I designed and made a huge crossword for the interns at IBM Research Labs, Zurich. IBM has an army of interns come to the Zurich labs and stay…
August 2, 2013. It’s been a long time since I’ve written. Well, I have had my reasons. There were many times I felt like writing some of my…
I wanted to experiment with how multiple people would interact and collaborate on a painting! So, I threw a party at my place and invited a bunch of ORC…
June 17, 2014. Don’t you get that feeling that the part of your life that you’ve lived already has somehow just flown by? Doesn’t it just feel like…
August 4, 2013. It’s time to clear the backlog! 11 Jan, 2013. As I was going on a ski trip, I sat next to a PhD student at…
January 19, 2013. I was sitting at an Indian restaurant having malai kofte (cheese balls in a tomato curry). It was kind of late, and there was just…
The Beginnings, December 1st, 2012. There was an idea. A thought, to learn more about the world, by conversations. It came to me while I was sitting at…
11th November, 2012. I made the rangoli and helped during the decorations of the Diwali Night, the biggest social event organized during the year for students by Sangam…
2011 – 2012. I designed this ORC – MIT ambigram T-shirt which was ultimately selected to be the t-shirt of the year.
I painted these two shirts as a Valentine’s day special idea. 🙂 A friend of mine wanted to gift his…
I was quite fascinated by the rubix cube, and wodered for an entire year how I could put it flat on a surface while covering all of the space…
Experimenting with a technique of oil painting using an oil painting knife and a crushed newspaper!
One of my favorites. I got this idea in a class during undergrad. I was thinking about my mother, who was then thinking about other people.
Ajanta paintings are made out of small shapes, without any lines. I made this painting and hid the name of someone inside it!
I created this ambigram for the Maths magazine at IIT Delhi. Turn it upside down, and it looks the same!
I created this design of the rubix cube. All rotations of the rubix cube can be mapped to a flow on this 2-D diagram! © All copyrights reserved….
I created an ambigram logo for ACM and IITD (IIT Delhi), that won the ACM Logo Challenge!
I designed an ambigram for “Algorithms” that featured in the ACM issue of November 2009.
