About Me
I am an Assistant Professor at Department of CSE, IIITDM Kancheepuram, Chennai, India. Prior to that, I was a Faculty Member at Department of CSE, NIT Andhra Pradesh, India. I also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at IFSTTAR, Lille, France. I received both my Ph.D. and M.Tech. degrees in CS from University of Hyderabad (known as HCU in local), India. Currently, I am interested in investigating and developing the heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization, Network Design, and Multi-objective Optimization problems.
Experience
January 2021 - Present (Assistant Professor)
Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, Chennai, India.
October 2020 - January 2021 (Faculty Member)
Faculty Member at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh, India.
July 2019 - December 2019 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Postdoctoral Fellow at IFSTTAR, Lille, France.
Awards / Recognitions
Received CSIR - Senior Research Fellowship from Government of India to pursue Ph.D. degree from University of Hyderabad.
Received MHRD Scholarship from Government of India to pursue M.Tech. degree from University of Hyderabad.
Received Scholarship from State Government of Andhra Pradesh to pursue B.Tech. degree from Jawaharla Nehru Technological University Kakinada.
Qualified GATE (CS/IT) in 2011 with more than 97 percentile.
Qualified for Assistant Professorship in National Eligibility Test conducted by University Grants Commission in December 2012.
Received National Travel Grant from Soft Computing Research Society to present a paper at ICHSA 2018 conference.
Education
2019 (Ph.D.)
Computer Science
University of Hyderabad, India
Thesis Title: Heuristics for Variants of Traveling Salesman Problem
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Alok Singh
2013 (M.Tech.)
Computer Science
University of Hyderabad, India
Thesis Title: Swarm Intelligence Approaches for Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Alok Singh
2011 (B.Tech.)
Computer Science and Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada, India
Contact Information
Office:
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram
Chennai, India - 600 127
Phone: +91 9110348220
Email: venkateshpandiri@iiitdm.ac.in, venkatesh78.p@gmail.com