Aswin Kannan Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory	Address: 9700 S. Cass Avenue Bldg. 240, 1e16 Argonne, IL 60439 phone: (630) 252-0054 email: akannan (at) mcs.anl.gov

Thanks to Stefan and MCS for giving me a page for some personal info. I worked at Argonne from June 2010 to July 2012.

I am also currently working on collecting and solving a set of simulation based optimization problems arising from several Engineering and Scientific applications. If you have a black box simulator that returns you a function value (no knowledge of gradients or/and the functional form) that needs to be optimized, please click here and send me a note if I can be of any assistance.

Besides derivative free optimization, I am also interested in quadratic programming and variational inequalities.

Publications

• A. Kannan and S.M. Wild, Obtaining Quadratic Models of Noisy Functions, Preprint ANL/MCS- P1975-1111, Submitted to Optimization Methods and Software (includes a problem tailored qp-solver). [pdf]
• A. Kannan and S.M. Wild, Benefits of Deeper Analysis in Simulation Based Groundwater Problems, Proceedings of the XIX International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, June 2012. [pdf]
• A. Kannan, U.V. Shanbhag, and H.M. Kim, Strategic Behavior in Power Markets under Uncertainty, Energy Systems, Volume 2, No. 2, pp. 115-141, 2011. [pdf]
• A. Kannan and U. V. Shanbhag, Distributed Iterative Regularization Algorithms for Monotone Nash Games, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2010. [pdf]
• A. Kannan and U.V. Shanbhag, Distributed Computation of Equilibria in Monotone Nash Games via Iterative Regularization Techniques, Conditionally accepted in SIAM Journal on Optimization. [pdf]
• A. Kannan and V.M. Zavala, A Game-Theoretical Model Predictive Framework for Electricity Markets, Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication and Control, 2011. [pdf]
• A.Kannan, U.V. Shanbhag and H.M.Kim, Addressing Supply-side Risk in Uncertain Power Markets: Stochastic Generalized Nash Models and Scalable Algorithms, Accepted in Optimization Methods and Software (also finalist for the best paper award at the Triennial Conference on Stochastic Programming - COSP 2010). [pdf]

Work in progress

• A.Kannan, J.J.More, and S.M.Wild, A Collection of Simulation Based Optimization Problems.
• A. Kannan and S.M. Wild, Maximizing Fuel Economy of a Conventional Vehicle Subject to Performance Constraints using Model-Based Optimization.

Online tools

• P.K.Gudla, A.Kannan, Z.Tang, N.Aluru, "Carbon nanotube based fixed-fixed NEMS”, http://nanohub.org/resources/CNTNEMSFF (2008).
• P.K.Gudla, A.Kannan, Z.Tang, N.Aluru "Carbon Nanotube based NEMS with cantilever structure”, http://nanohub.org/resources/CNTNEMSCANT (2008).