Jayanta Mandi

Jayanta Mandi obtained his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. His Ph.D. advisors are Prof. Dr. Tias Guns and Prof. Dr. Yves Molenbruch. His research interest lie in the integration of machine learning and constraint optimization. He works on decision focused learning framework, where a neural network model is trained with respect to a downstream optimization task loss.

Keywords research:

Machine Learning, Constraint optimisation, Artificial intelligence

Key Publications:

Data Driven VRP: A Neural Network Model to Learn Hidden Preferences for VRP. CP, 2021.

Interior Point Solving for LP-based prediction + optimisation. NeurIPS, 2020.

Smart Predict-and-Optimize for Hard Combinatorial Optimization Problems. AAAI, 2020.