Biography
Uday V. Shanbhag currently holds the Katta G. Murty Collegiate Professorship and has been a Professor in the department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor since Fall, 2024. From January 2017 to June 2024, he held the Gary and Sheila Chaired Professorship in the department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) at the Pennsylvania State University, having been a tenured associate professor until 2016, since arriving in Fall 2012. Prior to being at Penn. State, from 2006–2012, he was first an assistant professor, and subsequently a tenured associate professor (for approx. 10 days), in the department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems engineering (ISE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research interests lie in the development of analytical tools and scalable computational schemes for optimization and equilibrium problems, with a focus on addressing uncertainty, nonsmoothness and nonconvexity. Much of his research finds application in the realm of power systems and markets, where he has examined a range of questions, including the examination of strategic interactions in multi-settlement markets under uncertainty, the location of electrical substations and dynamic competitive equilibrium models. More recently, he has begun working on a broad class of nonconvex and stochastic statistical learning problems. Uday V. Shanbhag has a Ph.D. from Stanford University’s department of Management Science and Engineering (2006), with a concentration in operations research and was associated with the Systems Optimization Laboratory when at Stanford. He also holds masters (1998) and undergraduate (1993) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (in Operations Research) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, respectively.