Lavanya Marla

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007 — 2010)
• Master’s Degree Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004 — 2007)
• Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (2000 — 2004)

Companies

• Assistant Professor Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013)
• member INFORMS (2006 — 2016)
• Visiting faculty/Visiting scholar Indian school of Business (2015 — 2015)
• Systems Scientist Carnegie Mellon University (2010 — 2012)
• PhD Candidate in Transportation Systems MIT (2007 — 2010)
• IBM Research Zurich Summer Intern IBM (2009 — 2009)
• Graduate Student Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center (2006 — 2007)
• Summer Consultant Analytics Operations Engineering (2007 — 2007)

Selected Articles in Journals

• Laurie Garrow, Virgnie Lurkin and Lavanya Marla, "Airline OR Innovations Soar During COVID-19 Recovery", Operations Research Forum, Accepted.
• Gabriel A. Weaver, Brett Feddersen, Lavanya Marla, Dan Wei and Adam Rose (2021), "Estimating Economic Losses from Cyber-Attacks on Shipping Ports: An Optimization-Based Approach", Accepted, Transportation Research - Part C.
• Lav Varshney, Lavanya Marla, Devavrat Shah, Nirmal A. Prakash and Michael E. Gale (2021), "Short and Wide Network Paths", IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. doi: 10.1109/TNSE.2021.3123311
• Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson, Naman Shukla, Akhil Gupta, Lavanya Marla and Kartik Yellepeddi (2021), "Galactic Air improves airline ancillary revenues with dynamic personalized pricing", Accepted, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics (formerly Interfaces).
• Max Z. Li, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Hamsa Balakrishnan, Sang Hyun Shin, Darsh Jalan, Aritro Nandi and Lavanya Marla (2021). "Dynamics of Disruption and Recovery in Air Transportation Networks" Accepted, CEAS Aeronautical Journal. Invited paper.