Prashant Palkar
Assistant Professor, IIT Delhi at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Top SchoolPrashant Palkar is an Assistant Professor in the IEOR group at IIT Delhi with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and industry applications in optimization and operations research. He specializes in mixed-integer linear and nonlinear optimization, derivative-free methods, algorithmic game theory and the integration of AI/ML with optimization, and is a lead developer of the open-source MINOTAUR solver. His career spans doctoral and postdoctoral work at IIT Bombay and University of Augsburg and industry roles at Tata Steel where he built optimization models and visualization pipelines for process analytics. Prashant routinely leads interdisciplinary projects with public and private partners and mentors a diverse team of bachelors, masters and PhD students to translate theoretical advances into practical decision-support tools.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombaySchool name:
Hindi, English, Marathi
Github Skills (11)
nonlinear10
solver10
numerical-optimization10
open-source10
nonlinear-optimization10
integer10
mathematical-programming10
mixed-integer-programming10
rubiks-cube10
combinatorial-optimization10
optimization10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ppalkar/MLForOR
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
coin-or/minotaur
Sep 2014 - Aug 2021
Minotaur Toolkit for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization
Contributions:250 commits, 173 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 11 months
optimization-algorithmsnonlinear-optimizationnonlinearintegeroptimization
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