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Ankur Sinha, Ph.D.
Department of Information and Service Economy
Aalto University School of Economics

Office Address:
4th Floor, Room 13, Chydenia
Runeberginkatu 22-24
Helsinki 00100
Finland

Phone: +358 40 353 8097
Email: Ankur.Sinha@aalto.fi
Website: https://people.aalto.fi/ankur_sinha

Visiting Scholar (January-August 2013)
Beacon Center
Michigan State University
MI, USA

PhD Dissertation: Progressively Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

Received the dissertation of the year 2011 award at the Aalto University School of Business.

Research Interests
  • Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization
  • Multi-Criteria Decision Making
  • Bilevel Optimization
  • Semantic Information Retrieval
Publications
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
  1. A. Sinha, P. Malo, K. Deb, P. Korhonen and J. Wallenius. Solving bilevel multi-criterion optimization problems with lower level decision uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2015 (In Press).
  2. A. Sinha, P. Malo, and T. Kuosmanen. A multi-objective exploratory procedure for regression model selection. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 24(1):154-182, 2015.
  3. A. Sinha, P. Malo, and K. Deb. Test problem construction for single-objective bilevel optimization. Evolutionary Computation Journal, 22(3):439-477, 2014.
  4. P. Malo, A. Sinha, P. Takala, P. Korhonen, and J. Wallenius. Good debt or bad debt: Detecting semantic orientations in economic texts. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 65(4):782-796, 2014.
  5. A. Sinha, P. Malo, A. Frantsev, and K. Deb. Finding optimal strategies in a multi-period multi-leader-follower stackelberg game using an evolutionary algorithm. Computers & Operations Research, 41:374-385, 2014.
  6. A. Sinha, K. Deb, P. Korhonen, and J. Wallenius. An interactive evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithm with a limited number of decision maker calls. European Journal of Operational Research, 233(3):674-688, 2014.
  7. Ankur Sinha, Dhish Kumar Saxena, Kalyanmoy Deb, and Ashutosh Tiwari. Using objective reduction and interactive procedure to handle many-objective optimization problems. Applied Soft Computing, 13(1):415-427, 2013.
  8. P. Malo, P. Siitari, and A. Sinha. Automated query learning with wikipedia and genetic programming. Artificial Intelligence, 194:86-110, 2013.
  9. P. Malo, A. Sinha, J. Wallenius, and P. Korhonen. Concept-based document classification using wikipedia and value function. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(12):2496-2511, 2011.
  10. K. Deb and A. Sinha. An efficient and accurate solution methodology for bilevel multi-objective programming problems using a hybrid evolutionary-local-search algorithm. Evolutionary Computation Journal, 18(3):403-449, 2010.
  11. K. Deb, A. Sinha, P. Korhonen, and J. Wallenius. An interactive evolutionary multi-objective optimization method based on progressively approximated value functions. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 14(5):723-739, 2010.
PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
  1. A. Sinha, P. Malo, and K. Deb. Towards understanding bilevel multi-objective optimization with deterministic lower level decisions. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO-2015). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2015.
  2. A. Sinha, P. Malo, and K. Deb. Transportation policy formulation as a multi-objective bilevel optimization problem. In 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2015). IEEE Press, 2015.
  3. A. Sinha, A. Porokka, P. Malo, and K. Deb. Unconstrained robust optimization using a descent- based crossover operator. In 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2015). IEEE Press, 2015.
  4. M. Bostian, A. Sinha, Gerald Whittaker, and Bradley Barnhart. Incorporating data envelopment analysis solution methods into bilevel multi-objective optimization. In 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2015). IEEE Press, 2015.
  5. K. Deb, Z. Lu, and A. Sinha. Handling decision variable uncertainty in bilevel optimization problems. In 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2015). IEEE Press, 2015.
  6. P. Durgam and A. Sinha. Positive disruptions caused by scrm activities in the seci process of knowledge creation: Insights from four case studies. In Proceedings of the 27th Bled Conference (Bled-2014), 2014.
  7. A. Sinha, P. Malo, and K. Deb. An improved bilevel evolutionary algorithm based on quadratic approximations. In 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2014), pages 1870-1877. IEEE Press, 2014.
  8. A. Sinha, P. Malo, P. Xu, and K. Deb. A bilevel optimization approach to automated parameter tuning. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014). New York: ACM Press, 2014.
  9. P. Takala, P. Malo, A. Sinha, and O. Ahlgren. Gold-standard for topic-specific sentiments in economic texts. In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC-2014), 2014.
  10. A. Sinha, P. Malo, A. Frantsev, and K. Deb. Multi-objective stackelberg game between a regulating authority and a mining company: A case study in environmental economics. In 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2013). IEEE Press, 2013.
  11. P. Malo, A. Sinha, P. Takala, O. Ahlgren, and I. Lappalainen. Learning the roles of directional expressions and domain concepts in financial news analysis. In IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (SENTIRE-2013). IEEE Press, 2013.
  12. A. Frantsev, A. Sinha, and P. Malo. Finding optimal strategies in multi-period stackelberg games using an evolutionary framework. In IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization (IFAC-2009). Elsevier, 2012.
  13. A. Sinha, P. Malo, and K. Deb. Unconstrained scalable test problems for single-objective bilevel optimization. In 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2012). IEEE Press, 2012.
  14. A. Sinha, A. Pandey, and K. Deb. Solving high objective problems in fixed interactions with the decision maker. In 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2012). IEEE Press, 2012.
  15. O. Ahlgren, P. Malo, A. Sinha, P. Korhonen, and J. Wallenius. A dimensionality reduction approach for semantic document classification. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management, 2011.
  16. A. Sinha, T. Kuosmanen, and P. Malo. Estimation of efficient regression model using a multi- objective procedure. In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Operations Research and Statistics (ORS-2011), pages 72–77. Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF), 2011.
  17. A. Sinha. Bilevel multi-objective optimization problem solving using progressively interactive evolutionary algorithm. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO-2011), pages 269-284. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2011.
  18. A. Sinha, K. Deb, P. Korhonen, and J. Wallenius. Progressively interactive evolutionary multiobjective optimization method using generalized polynomial value functions. In 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2010), pages 1-8. IEEE Press, 2010.
  19. A. Sinha, P. Korhonen, J. Wallenius, and K. Deb. An interactive evolutionary multi-objective optimization method based on polyhedral cones. In 2010 Learning and Intelligent Optimization (LION-2010), pages 318-332. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2010.
  20. K. Deb and A. Sinha. Solving bilevel multi-objective optimization problems using evolutionary algorithms. In Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO-2009), pages 110-124. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2009.
  21. K. Deb and A. Sinha. Constructing test problems for bilevel evolutionary multi-objective optimization. In 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2009), pages 1153-1160. IEEE Press, 2009.
  22. A. Sinha and K. Deb. Towards understanding evolutionary bilevel multi-objective optimization algorithm. In IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization (IFAC-2009), volume 7. Elsevier, 2009.
  23. K. Sindhya, A. Sinha, K. Deb, and K. Miettinen. Local search based evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithm for constrained and unconstrained problems. In 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2009), pages 2919-2926. IEEE Press, 2009.
  24. K. Deb and A. Sinha. An evolutionary approach for bilevel multi-objective problems. In Cutting- Edge Research Topics on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Communications in Computer and Information Science, volume 35, pages 17–24. Berlin, Germany: Springer, 2009.
  25. A. Sinha, S. Tiwari, and K. Deb. A population-based, steady-state procedure for real-parameter optimization. In 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2005), pages 514-521. IEEE Press, 2005.
  26. A. Sinha, A. Srinivasan, and K. Deb. A population-based, parent centric procedure for constrained real-parameter optimization. In 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2006), pages 239-245. IEEE Press, 2006.
  27. K. Deb, A. Sinha, and S. Kukkonen. Multi-objective test problems, linkages, and evolutionary methodologies. In Proceedings of the 8th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2006), pages 1141-1148. New York: ACM Press, 2006. 
BOOK CHAPTERS
  1. A. Sinha and K. Deb. Bilevel multi-objective optimization and decision making. In E-G. Talbi and L. Brotcorne, editors, Metaheuristics for bi-level optimization. Springer, 2012.
Invited Talks

  • “Evolutionary approaches to handling bilevel optimization problems” at Beacon Center MSU, February 2013, East Lansing, MI, USA

  • "Interactive Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Many Criteria Optimization Problems" at INFORMS 2012, October 2012, Phoenix, AZ, USA
  • "Preference-based Evolutionary Algorithm for Many Objective Optimization Problems" at EURO 2012, July 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • "Solving Bilevel Problems Using an Evolutionary Approach" at INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2011, Charlotte, NC, USA
  • "Introduction to Bilevel Optimization" at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, August 2011, Kanpur, India
  • "Progressively Interactive Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization" at Saint Petersburg State University, May 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • "Solving Bilevel Multi-Objective Optimization Problems Using Evolutionary Algorithms" at University of Jyvaskyla, November 2008, Jyvaskyla, Finland
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