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 National Teachers' Awardee Higher Education 2024 |
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(Currently on sabbatical leave from India, and in the US on J1-visa until fall 2026) |
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Research Interests and IDs:
Applied Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Health Informatics, Economics of Networks, Computational Optimization, and Numerical Linear Algebra.
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Recent News:
• Joint paper of Mr. Priyanshu Singh, Prof. Ahuja, and Prof. Soumyendu Raha on a new Chameleon Clustering algorithm has been accepted in INDICON 25 (A flagship conference of IEEE India Council), Nov 2025.
• Prof. Ahuja has received a Special Mention for Continued Exceptional Teaching Score year-after-year, IIT Indore, Sept 2025.
• Prof. Ahuja has received the Editorial Contribution Award, Knowledge and Information Systems Journal, Springer Nature, Aug 2025.
• Prof. Ahuja has received funding for a semester long workshop on Stochastic and Randomized Algorithms in Scientific Computing at ICERM, Brown University, USA, Jun 2025.
• Prof. Ahuja has received funding for an Adjunct Faculty position, Dept. of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, USA, Jun 2025.
• Joint paper of Mr. Amit Raj and Prof. Ahuja on AI for optimizing drone path has been published in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Elsevier Journal), Apr 2025.
After completing a double Master’s plus a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech (USA), I did a postdoc from the Max Planck Institute in Magdeburg (Germany). Subsequently, I worked as an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at IIT Indore, where I am holding a Full Professor position. Currently, I am working as an adjunct faculty at Virginia Tech as well. In the recent past, I have held Visiting Professor positions at UT Austin (USA), IMT Atlantique (France), Sandia National Labs (USA), TU Dresden (Germany), and TU Braunschweig (Germany).
I head the Mathematics of Data Science and Simulation (MODSS) research lab at IIT Indore, with research interests in Machine Learning, Economics of Networks, Numerical Linear Algebra, and Optimization. My current emphasis is on machine learning algorithms for plant and cancer studies; game theoretic approaches to poverty reduction; data-driven linear solvers & model reducing algorithms for climate modelling on exascale machines; and IoT & drone trajectory optimizations.
My research output includes external funding worth 665,750 USD and forty publications. While achieving this, I have graduated 5 Ph.D. students, 5 M.S. (Research) students, 1 M. Tech. student, and 75 B.Tech. students. On the teaching end, I have taught fifteen distinct courses. I have received the National Teachers' Award conferred by The President of India, Best Teacher Award 5-times at IIT Indore, and Special Mention for Continued Exceptional Teaching Score year-after-year at IIT Indore. As a service to the academic community, I am on the editorial board of two reputed journals, have organized fifteen conferences/ workshops/ schools/ symposia, and have reviewed papers from thirty-five sources (journals / conferences/ institutes/ funders).
I have substantially contributed to the growth of the institutions that I have been associated with by holding multiple administrative positions. Besides heading Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Indore in the past, my biggest administrative contribution most recently has been in increasing IIT Indore’s international footprint as the founding Dean of International Affairs.