Abstract
Devavrat’s research focuses on statistical inference and stochastic networks. His contributions span a variety of areas including resource allocation in communications networks, inference and learning on graphical models, and algorithms for social data processing including ranking, recommendations and crowdsourcing. Within the broad context of networks, his work spans a range of areas across electrical engineering, computer science and operations research.
Devavrat has received the President of India Gold Medal at IIT, Bombay, the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the CAREER award from the NSF, the inaugural Rising Star Award from ACM SIGMETRICS, the Erlang Prize from the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS, and several best paper awards. He founded the machine learning start-up Celect, which helps retailers with optimizing inventory by accurate demand forecasting.