People

The ANSI team is highly interdisciplinary, leverages a wide variety of expertise, and brings together many organizations at Los Alamos National Laboratory. This list provides a brief summary of the key staff involved with ANSI.

Leadership Team

• Russell Bent - optimization algorithms (website, publications)

Research Staff

• Ismail Alkhouri - machine learning (website, publications)
• Luke Baker - control theory (publications)
• Art Barnes - power system engineering (website)
• Christina Brelsford - geographic information systems (website, publications)
• Carleton Coffrin - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• David Fobes - experimental physics (website, publications)
• Manuel Garcia - electrical engineering (publications)
• Abhijith Jayakumar - quantum computing (website, publications)
• Saif R. Kazi - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Sai Krishna - optimization algorithms (website)
• Nathan Lemons - graph theory (website, publications)
• Andrey Lokhov - theoretical physics (website, publications)
• Adam Mate - electrical engineering (publications)
• Sidhant Misra - machine learning and optimization (website, publications)
• Harsha Nagarajan - optimization and control theory (website, publications)
• Michael Rivera - experimental physics
• Shriram Srinivasan - control theory (website, publications)
• Kaarthik Sundar - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Jose Tabarez - electrical engineering
• Marc Vuffray - information theory (website, publications)
• Anatoly Zlotnik - optimization and control theory (website, publications)

Postdocs & Students

• Shiba Biswal - control theory (publications)
• Karthik Elamvazhuthi - control theory (website, publications)
• Robert Ferrando - applied math (publications)
• Noah Rhodes - power system engineering (website, publications)
• Sachin Shivakumar - control theory (publications)

Collaborators

• Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Line Roald, University of Wisconsin-Madison - power engineering (website, publications)
• Pascal Van Hentenryck, Georgia Institute of Technology - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Andreas Wächter - optimization algorithms (website, publications)

Alumni

• James Arnold, RS21 - geographic information systems (website)
• Scott Backhaus, National Institute of Standards and Technology - experimental physics (website, publications)
• Paprapee Buason, Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon - electrical engineering (website, publications)
• Francesco Caravelli, Planckian - theoretical physics (website, publications)
• Misha Chertkov, University of Arizona - theoretical physics (website, publications)
• Trevor Crawford, ERT Inc. - data analytics (website)
• Magdalena Dale - electrical engineering (website)
• Deepjyoti Deka, MIT - machine learning and control (website, publications)
• Mary Ewers, Retired - infrastructure analysis (website, publications)
• Zach Fox, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - computational biology (website, publications)
• Smitha Gopinath, University of Sheffield - optimization algorithms (publications)
• Aric Hagberg, LANL - applied mathematics (website, publications)
• Hassan Hijazi, Gurobi - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Rohit Kannan, Virginia Tech - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Wenting Li, Georgia Institute of Technology - machine learning (website, publications)
• Miles Lubin, Google - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Yury Maximov, ZeroAvia - machine learning and optimization
• David Métivier, École Polytechnique - theoretical physics (website)
• Juan Opsina, Orennia - electrical engineering (website, publications)
• Parikshit Pareek, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorke - electrical engineering (website, publications)
• Robert Parker, Gurobi - optimization algorithms (publications)
• Hrusikesha Pradhan
• Forrest Sheldon, London Institute for Mathematical Sciences - theoretical physics (website, publications)
• Byron Tasseff, Gurobi - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Kostya Turitsyn, D.E. Shaw - theoretical physics (website, publications)
• Melvin Tyloo, University of Exeter - theoretical physics (website, publications)
• Tillmann Weisser - applied mathematics (publications)
• Haoxiang Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen - optimization algorithms (website, publications)