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Personal Details
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
- 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).
- 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.
- A. Sinha, P. Malo, and K. Deb. Test problem construction for single-objective bilevel optimization. Evolutionary Computation Journal, 22(3):439-477, 2014.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- P. Malo, P. Siitari, and A. Sinha. Automated query learning with wikipedia and genetic programming. Artificial Intelligence, 194:86-110, 2013.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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