Biography

I, Dhruva Sundararajan, am a PhD student at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. I have completed my MSc (Integrated) from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India. My research interests include Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence. My work includes several published articles, a conference proceeding and a book chapter, showing my dedication in using Data Science for practical solutions.

Education

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering (August 2024 - present)

Academic Research Concentration: Operations Research

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India

MSc (Integrated) Data Science (July 2019 - June 2024)

Research Interests

  • Operations Research

    • Optimization
    • Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)
  • Artificial Intelligence

    • Machine Learning
    • Deep Learning

Skills

  • Programming Languages:

    • Python
    • R
  • Optimization Solvers:

    • HiGHS
    • Gurobi

Recent News

Aug 2024: I am happy to share that I have started my PhD in Operations Research in Virginia Tech. I am part of the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Jul 2024: Journal Publication "Demystifying the Stability and the Performance Aspects of CoCoSo Ranking Method under Uncertain Preferences" has been published in the Informatica Journal.

June 2024: Book Chapter "Cloud technology and fuzzy-based decision support systems driving sustainable development" has been published as part of the book titled "Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Computing".

Jan 2024: Conference Proceeding "Fermatean fuzzy-based PCA CoCoSo framework to assess digital technologies in Health 4.0" has been published in IEEE Xplore as a part of the proceedings of IEEE 23rd International Symposium of Computational Intelligence and Informatics (CINTI), 2023.

Dec 2023: Journal Publication "An Evidence-Based CoCoSo Framework with Double Hierarchy Linguistic Data for Viable Selection of Hydrogen Storage Methods" has been published in the CMES - Computer Modelling in Engineering & Sciences Journal.

Experiences

The recent experiences have been listed here. Do refer to my CV for other experiences.

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA (Aug 2024 - present)

Course: Theory of Organization

Research Intern - IIT Madras, Chennai, India (Jul 2023 - Jun 2024)

Guide: Dr. Sridharakumar Narasimhan (Department of Chemical Engineering)

  • Developed a shrinking horizon Model Predictive Control (MPC) for scheduling the distribution of water by minimizing the overall power and meeting all the demands.
  • Contributed to building a Graph Neural Networks (GNN) for Column Generation (CG) problems that utilizes Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) for scheduling the distribution of water in a water network.
  • Modernized an existing web application for sensor placement in water distribution networks by migrating it to a Python and HTML-based architecture, utilizing FastAPI for enhanced performance and scalability.

Project Intern - Calligo Technologies, Bangalore, India (Aug 2022 - Jun 2023)

  • Conducted research on Intermediate Representation (IR) of Graphs to optimize various deep neural network (DNN) architectures such as Resnet, VGG, and Mobilenet.
  • Implemented IR graph concepts to enhance accuracy and reduce inference time for a range of deep learning models and architectures.
  • Utilized GLOW compiler, a graph lowering compiler for deep learning architechtures, to implement these optimizations and improve overall performance, and benchmarked the performance of the GLOW compiler with other available Graph compilers such as TVM.

Papers

The recent papers have been listed here. Do refer to my CV for more papers.

Journal Publications

Demystifying the Stability and the Performance Aspects of CoCoSo Ranking Method under Uncertain Preferences

DOI: 10.15388/24-INFOR565

An Evidence-Based CoCoSo Framework with Double Hierarchy Linguistic Data for Viable Selection of Hydrogen Storage Methods

DOI: 10.32604/cmes.2023.029438

Selection of a viable blockchain service provider for data management within the internet of medical things: An MCDM approach to Indian healthcare

DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2023.119890

Selection of Suitable Cloud Vendors for Health Centre: A Personalized Decision Framework with Fermatean Fuzzy Set, LOPCOW, and CoCoSo

DOI: 10.15388/23-INFOR537

Conference Proceedings

Book Chapters