Raghu Pasupathy, Professor of Statistics
Purdue University, West Lafayette

Mailing Address

Department of Statistics
Purdue University
150 N. University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

Contact Information

Office: MATH 546
Phone: (765) 496-9560
Fax: (765) 494-0558
Email: pasupath[AT]purdue[DOT]edu

Education

Ph.D., Purdue University, 2005
B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, 1995

Research Interests

Stochastic Optimization, Statistical Computation, Simulation

Lecture & Seminar Notes

Empirical Processes for Stochastic Optimization (Spring 2023)
Convergence of Probability Measures (Fall 2021)
Empirical Processes (Spring 2021)
Stochastic Processes, STAT/MATH 532
Stochastic Optimization, STAT 598
Time Series, STAT 420
Industrial Mathematics/Statistics Seminar (Spring 2021)

Computational Solvers & Software

Recent Publications

Statistical Inference on Simulation Ouput: Batching as an Inferential Device,
Y. Jeon, S. Shashaani and R. Pasupathy,
under revision, 2024.
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A Retrospective Approximation Framework for Smooth Stochastic Optimization,
D. Newton, R. Bollapragada, R. Pasupathy, and N. Yip,
under third review, 2024.
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Uncertainty Quantification for Multiobjective Stochastic Convex Quadratic Programs,
Z. Liu and S. R. Hunter and R. Pasupathy,
under first review, 2024.
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Overlapping Batch Confidence Regions on the Steady-State Quantile Field,
R. Pasupathy, D. Singham and Y. Yeh,
under revision, 2024.
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Overlapping Batch Confidence Intervals on Statistical Functionals Constructed from Time Series: Application to Quantiles, Optimization, and Estimation,
Z. Su, R. Pasupathy, Y. Yeh, and P. W. Glynn,
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 2024.
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Bootstrapping and Batching for Output Analysis,
R. Pasupathy,
Proceedings of the 2023 Winter Simulation Conference.
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Overlapping Batch Confidence Regions on the Steady-State Quantile Vector,
R. Pasupathy, D. Singham and Y. Yeh,
Proceedings of the 2022 Winter Simulation Conference.
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Weak Convergence Results for Constructing Confidence Regions in Strictly Convex Multi-Objective Simulation Optimization,
S. R. Hunter and R. Pasupathy,
Proceedings of the 2022 Winter Simulation Conference.
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Sample Average Approximation over Function Spaces: Statistical Consistency and Rate of Convergence
Z. Zhou, H. Honnappa and R. Pasupathy,
Proceedings of the 2022 Winter Simulation Conference.
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Adaptive Sampling Line Search for Stochastic Optimization with Integer Variables.
P. K. Raghavan, S. R. Hunter, R. Pasupathy and M. R. Taaffe,
Mathematical Programming, Series B, 2022.
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An Adaptive Sequential Sample Average Approximation Framework for Solving Two-stage Stochastic Linear Programs.
R. Pasupathy and Y. Song,
SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2021. 31(7), pp. 1017-1048, 2021.
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Risk-Efficient Sequential Simulation Estimators.
R. Pasupathy and Y. Yeh,
Proceedings of the 2020 Winter Simulation Conference, 2020.
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Retrospective Approximation for Smooth Stochastic Optimization.
D. Newton, R. Bollapragada, R. Pasupathy and A. Nung-Kwan Yip,
OPT2020: Optimization for Machine Learning, NeurIPS, 2020.
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Multi-objective ranking and selection: optimal sampling laws and tractable approximations via SCORE.
E. A. Applegate and G. Feldman and S. R. Hunter and R. Pasupathy,
Journal of Simulation 14(1), pp. 21-40, 2019.
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Open Problem--Adaptive Constant-Step Stochastic Approximation.
R. Pasupathy and H. Honnappa and S. R. Hunter,
Stochastic Systems 9(3), pp. 307-310, 2019.

The ties that bind.
L. Leemis and R. Pasupathy,
Significance 16(4), pp. 8-9, 2019.

The Number of Random Restarts Required to Identify All Solutions to a Nonlinear System: Applications to Global Stochastic Optimization.
R. Pasupathy,
Proceedings of the 2019 Winter Simulation Conference, 2019.

ASTRO for Derivative-based Stochastic Optimization: Algorithm Description \& Numerical Experiments.
D. Vasquez, S. Shashaani and R. Pasupathy,
Proceedings of the 2019 Winter Simulation Conference, 2019.

Optimal placement of a small order in a diffusive limit order book.
J. E. Figueroa-Lopez and H. Lee and R. Pasupathy,
High Frequency 1(2), pp. 87-116, 2018.
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ASTRO-DF: A Class of Adaptive Sampling Trust-Region Algorithms for Derivative-Free Simulation Optimization.
S. Shashaani and F. S. Hashemi and R. Pasupathy,
SIAM Journal on Optimization 28(4), pp. 3145-3176, 2018.
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On sampling rates in simulation-based recursions.
R. Pasupathy, P. W. Glynn, S. Ghosh and F. Hashemi,
SIAM Journal on Optimization 28(1), pp. 45-73, 2018.
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