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I received my Ph. D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (ISE) in 2012. My PhD thesis advisor were Prof Uday V. Shanbhag and Prof. Angelia Nedich. I did my undergraduate (B. Tech.) in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2008.

Currently, I am Research Scientist at Amazon in Inventory Planning and Control group. Broadly speaking, my work focuses on building optimization model, simulation of inventory platform, prediction analytics. Prior to this, I was an Associate at Goldman Sachs in Compliance Surveillance Analytics.

My general research interests are listed below.

Research Interests

  • Convex and nonconvex optimization
  • Distributed optimization algorithms over multi agent networked system
  • Online and stochastic optimization models
  • Machine learning theory and application
  • Game theory

Contact Info

Email: jayashkoshal [at] gmail [dot] com

Email: koshal1 [at] illinois [dot] edu