Swati Gupta

Swati Gupta, incoming assistant professor of Operations Research and Statistics, has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her project entitled “Advancing Equity in Selection Problems Through Bias-Aware Optimization.”

CAREER Awards are the NSF’s “most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization,” whose activities “should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.”

The project abstract is included here.

Swati Gupta won the JP Morgan Chase Early Career Faculty Award in 2021. The award honors “outstanding faculty researcher early in their careers.” Gupta won this while she was the Fouts Family Early Career Professor and assistant professor at the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Swati Gupta won the Class of 1934 CIOS Honor Roll in both 2021 and 2020 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Gupta won this honor while she was an assistant professor and Fouts Family Early Career Professor there.

Swati Gupta received the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award in 2019. The CRII Award is a junior faculty award, and Gupta won it while she was an assistant professor at the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Swati Gupta won a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship for Real-Time Decision Making, and was subsequently selected to be funded as a Microsoft Research Fellowship in the spring of 2018.

Gupta also won a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship for Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization in the fall of 2017.

The Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowships, given by the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley, are awarded to young scientists within five years of earning their PhD.

Swati Gupta won the Google India Women in Engineering Award in 2011. The Google India Women in Engineering Award began in 2008 as a way to recognize deserving women students in the field of Computer Science and Engineering.