Nishanth Mundru

I am a clinical Assistant Professor in the Operations group at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC Chapel Hill. I completed my Ph.D. at the Operations Research Center at MIT advised by Professor Dimitris Bertsimas. I am currently working on developing methods for prescriptive analytics - using data-driven techniques from optimization, statistics, and machine learning to solve problems that lead to better decisions and outcomes. I'm particularly excited about solving real-world motivated problems in healthcare analytics and operations management. Additionally, I'm interested in developing optimization algorithms for machine learning problems and real world applications.

During my PhD, I spent a summer as an intern at Google Research, NYC . Before coming to MIT, I worked in quantitative finance for a year developing statistical arbitrage based strategies at WorldQuant LLC, India.

I obtained my undergraduate degree (B.Tech) in Chemical Engineering along with a minor in Applied Statistics and Informatics from the Indian Insitute of Technology Bombay in Mumbai, India. During my undergraduate, I spent a summer each working on problems in computational systems biology in EPFL, Switzerland and process control in NUS, Singapore.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013 — 2019)
• Bachelor's Degree Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2008 — 2012)