About me
PhD Student at Polytechnique Montreal
I graduated from BITS Pilani Goa Campus in 2015 with B.E. (Hons.) Computer Science and M.Sc. (Hons.) Mathematics. After graduation, I worked with Google from 2015 to 2020. Left Google in 2020 to start my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Lodi and Prof. Guy Desaulniers.
PS: I have also signed up as a mentor for BITSAA AMP (Alumni Mentorship Program).
My research interests:
- Discrete optimization
- Column Generation
- Machine Learning.
My non-academic interests:
- Chess
- Work life balance
- Study skills
- Productivity

Publications
The convex relaxation barrier, revisited: Tightened single-neuron relaxations for neural network verification
Authors: C. Tjandraatmadja, R. Anderson, J. Huchette, W. Ma, K. Patel and J. P. Vielma.
Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020), 2020, pp. 21675--21686.
Things I like to brag about !
- Part of the developer team when the CP-SAT solver won 4 Gold medals at Minizinc Challenge 2019
- All India Rank (AIR) 10 in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2014.
- District rank 2 in Regional Mathematical Olympiad. Got selected for Indian National Mathematical Olympiad 2008.
Work History
Google Cambridge
From March 2019 to August 2020. Worked with the operations research team. Major projects: CP-SAT and TF-OPT.
Google Paris
From May 2017 to March 2019. Worked with the operations research team. Major Projects: CP-SAT and other solvers in OR-Tools.
Google Bangalore
From Sept 2015 to May 2017. Worked with the Gsuite Commerce team.