{"id":3770,"date":"2024-11-05T10:03:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/doctor-of-engineering\/faculty\/amitabh-basu\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T10:03:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:03:54","slug":"amitabh-basu","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/doctor-of-engineering\/faculty\/amitabh-basu\/","title":{"rendered":"Amitabh Basu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Amitabh Basu is a professor of applied mathematics and statistics with\u00a0a secondary appointment in computer science.\u00a0He is an expert in the fields of optimization, discrete and combinatorial geometry, operations research, and convex analysis.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:450,&quot;335559739&quot;:450}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Basu utilizes integer programming and convex analysis to break new ground in optimization research. His work aims to provide methods for solving large-scale, decision-making problems where a combination of discrete choices and non-discrete choices must be made to optimize a given objective. He incorporates techniques from convex geometry, the geometry of numbers, functional analysis, algebraic topology, and real algebraic geometry to reach technical breakthroughs in mixed-integer optimization. Basu\u2019s research has practical applications in a number of fields, including operations research, astronomy, and data science.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:450,&quot;335559739&quot;:450}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Basu serves on the editorial boards of <i>Mathematics of Operations Research,<\/i> <i>Discrete Optimization<\/i>, <i>MOS-SIAM Series on Optimization<\/i>, <i>Mathematical Programming<\/i>, and <i>SIAM Journal on Optimization<\/i>. He has published more than 50 papers in nearly a dozen peer-reviewed journals. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the American Mathematical Society. Basu\u2019s awards include an AMS-Simons Travel award, a U.S. Junior Oberwolfach fellowship from the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO), and a 2015 NSF CAREER award, and\u00a0the Egon Balas Prize from the INFORMS Optimization Society. He was also one of three finalists for the prestigious A.W. Tucker Prize, which is awarded by the Mathematical Optimization Society every three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\">He received a bachelor<span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>\u2019<\/span>s degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 2004 and a master<span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>\u2019<\/span>s degree in computer science from Stony Brook University in 2006. In 2010, he earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization.\u00a0<span data-contrast=\"none\">Basu joined Johns Hopkins in 2013 following a three-year visiting assistant professor appointment at the University of California, Davis.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-3770","people","type-people","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amitabh Basu - Doctor of Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/faculty\/amitabh-basu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amitabh Basu - Doctor of Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amitabh Basu is a professor of applied mathematics and statistics with a secondary appointment in computer science. 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