Robert Axtell
Professor
Rob is a Professor at the Department of Computational and Data Science in George Mason University. He developed one of the earliest large-scale models of firm dynamics with 120 millions artificial workers making autonomous decisions in silico. Rob has solved many real-world problems using agent-based models including the reduction of tick sizes in NASDAQ and allocation of workers in Disney Land. He has been associated with MIT, Oxford, and the Santa Fe Institute in various capacities.
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Tarun Rambha
Assistant Professor
Tarun is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Indian Institute of Science. He received his PhD from University of Texas Austin. Tarun is an expert in modeling traffic flows with agent-based models, he specializes in optimizing these models and calibrating them to dynamic real world environment. He consults with various government entites including the Bangalore City Corporation.
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Anil Nelakanti
Scientist
Anil is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, where he has worked across several business verticals contributing to sponsored advertising, e-commerce retail, and product search systems leveraging text mining, machine translation, speech processing and information retrieval. He worked towards his doctoral thesis at INRIA Paris, focusing on the application of structured penalties to language modeling. He taught computer science at IIT Varanasi before joining Amazon in 2017.
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Parth J Shah
Dean
Parth is the Founder Dean of the Indian School of Public Policy. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Auburn University, and has taught at the University of Michigan. He has been a visiting faculty at JNU and has served on the Senates of the Central University of Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. He has also been a member of several state and union government task forces, including the education task force of the governments of Delhi and Karnataka.
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Vipin P Veetil
Assistant Professor
Vipin is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Area of the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. Vipin received his PhD from George Mason University and did his post-doctoral work at University of Paris 1. He specializes in using agent-based models to study macroeconomic questions. For the last decade or so he has been developing a model in which millions of firms make decisions within a large supply-chain. He has applied this model to estimate the cost of the COVID lockdowns.
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Rakesh Warier
Assistant Professor
Rakesh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at NIT Calicut. He received his PhD from IIT Bombay in Systems and Control Engineering. He works extensively in the area of multi-agent simulation particularly with robotic agents. He is the recipient of several major grants from Government of India including a recent MoES Grant on Deep Ocean Mission.
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