Gupta receives Google India Women in Engineering Award
August 28, 2023
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Swati Gupta
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Swati Gupta is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the Operations Research and Statistics Group.
Previously, she was a Fouts Family Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor at the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. She also serves as the lead of Ethical AI in the NSF AI Institute on Advances in Optimization, awarded in 2021.
Her research interests include optimization and machine learning, with a focus on algorithmic fairness. Her work spans various domains such as hiring, admissions, e-commerce, quantum optimization, and energy.
She received the Class of 1934: Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching in 2021 and 2022 at Georgia Tech, the JP Morgan Early Career Faculty Award in 2021, the NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative Award in 2019, and the Google Women in Engineering Award (India) in 2011. She was also awarded the prestigious Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship in 2017-2018, where she was selected as the Microsoft Research Fellow in 2018. Her research and students have received recognition at various venues like INFORMS Doing Good with OR 2022 (finalist), INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research 2018 (honorable mention), INFORMS Computing Society 2016 (special recognition), and INFORMS Service Science Student Paper 2016 (finalist). Dr. Gupta’s research is partially funded by the National Science Foundation and DARPA.
Swati received a PhD in operations research from MIT in 2017, and joint Master’s and BTech in computer science from IIT Delhi in 2011.
Honors
Gupta wins student recognition for excellence in teaching at Georgia Tech
August 28, 2023
Gupta wins research fellowship two years in a row
August 28, 2023
Gupta receives CAREER award
July 24, 2023
Publications
Featured Publication
"Secretary Problems with Biased Evaluations using Partial Ordinal Information."Salem, Jad and Swati Gupta. Management Science. Forthcoming. SSRN.
Featured Publication
"Discovering Opportunities in New York City's Discovery Program: Disadvantaged Students in Highly Competitive Markets."Yuri Faenza, Swati Gupta, and Xuan Zhang. In EC '23: Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, New York, NY: July 2023.
"Too many Fairness Metrics: Is there a solution? Equity across Demographic Groups for the Facility Location Problem."
Gupta, Swati, Akhil Jalan, Gireeja Ranade, Helen Yang, and Simon Zhuang. Fields Institute Communication Series. Forthcoming.
"Reducing the Feeder Effect in Public School Admissions: A Bias-aware Analysis for Targeted Interventions."
Faenza, Yuri, Swati Gupta, and Xuan Zhang. Presentation, SIAM Conference on Applied & Computational Discrete Algorithms, Seattle, Washington, United States of America. May 2023.
"Using Algorithms to Tame Discrimination: A Path To Algorithmic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion."
Desai, Deven R., Swati Gupta, Jad Salem. UC Davis Law Review, April 2023.
"Reusing Combinatorial Structure: Faster Iterative Projections over Submodular Base Polytopes."
Mortagy, Hassan, Jai Moondra, Swati Gupta, Working Paper. March 2023.