In Fall 2025, I presented the information theoretic proof of central limit theorem in Prof. Siva Theja Maguluri's course. I mostly followed the papers and book by Andrew Barron and Oliver Johnson. The idea is that Gaussian maximizes entropy among a class of distributions with the same mean and variance. So, one could prove CLT by showing that the entropy of appropriately scaled partial sums goes to its maximum value. You can find the recording here and my notes here.
Part 1 (Presented by me): Overview of transform method and application to matching queues and load balancing (1.5 hours)
Part 2 (Presented by Prakirt Jhunjhunwala): Transform method for load balancing with abandonments and input queued switch (1.5 hours)
Slides for both parts can be found here: [Slides]
SOLACE Seminar at Toulouse, hosted by Dr. Celine Comte [Slides]Â
IOE Department, University of Michigan Ann Arbor - Jan 18, 2024
ISyE Department, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Jan 23, 2024
IEOR Department, Columbia University, New York - Jan 30, 2024
OM Group, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Nov 29, 2023 [Slides]
Flash Talk, APS Cluster, INFORMS Annual Meeting - Oct 16, 2023 [Slides]
TSL Best Student Paper Award Session, INFORMS Annual Meeting - Oct 16, 2023 [Slides]
IIM Bangalore, hosted by Prof. Anand Deo on 19th-July-2023
INFORMS Applied Probability Conference 2023, June 28-30, 2023 [Slides]
MSOM Service Management SIG Day 2023, June 24, 2023 [Slides]
Marketplace Innovation Workshop, [Talk] and [Poster] Presentation, May 22nd 2023
ISyE Student Seminar, Georgia Tech, 7th-April-2023
Workshop on Operations Research and Data Science (WORDS) at Duke University on 08th-Nov-2023
Seminar at Math and CS Department at Eindhoven Institute of Technology hosted by Prof. Sem Borst on 22nd-Aug-2023
STCS seminar, TATA Institute of Fundamental Research, hosted by Prof. Sandeep Juneja on 10th-Aug-2023
CNI Seminar, ECE at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore on 18th-July-2023
CSP Seminar, U of Michigan, hosted by Prof. Lei Ying on 12th-Jan-2023 [Slides]
SINE Seminar Series at UIUC, hosted by Prof. R. Srikant on 30th-Sept-2022 [Slides]
INFORMS Chapter at Purdue University, hosted by Prof. Harsha Honnappa on 28th-Sept-2022 [Slides]
Ph.D. Proposal 2021 [Slides]