About

Prachi Shah is a Ph.D. student in Operations Research at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She received B.Tech and M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Prachi's research focuses on discrete and combinatorial optimization. She is interested in advancing theoretical foundations and practical algorithms motivated by large-scale problems in these domains.  Her ongoing research attempts to improve the selection of branching disjunction in the branch-and-bound algorithm. In addition, she is studying the interaction of branching decisions and cutting planes.