Rohit Kannan
Assistant Professor (Operations Research), Department Of Industrial And Systems Engineering
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRohit Kannan is an Assistant Professor in Operations Research at Virginia Tech who combines a decade of research and industry experience in optimization, applied machine learning, and energy systems. Trained at IIT Madras (B.Tech) and MIT (Ph.D.), he progressed through postdoctoral roles at UW–Madison and Los Alamos National Laboratory where he worked on algorithms for decision-making under uncertainty. His work focuses on new paradigms that tightly integrate ML and optimization, delivering algorithms with theoretical guarantees and scalable implementations for real-world energy applications. Rohit’s background in chemical engineering and early industry internships gives him a practical, cross-disciplinary perspective that shapes his academic research. He is based in Blacksburg, VA and is known for bridging rigorous theory with deployment-minded solutions for pressing systems problems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (8)
parallel3
integer3
julia3
solver3
optimization2
mixed-integer-programming2
integer-programming2
optimization-methods1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rohitkannan/rohitkannan.github.io
Sep 2020 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:654 pushes in 4 years 6 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
rohitkannan/ER-DRO
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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