Miten Mistry, PhD Student Department of Computing Imperial College London Supervisor: Dr Ruth Misener

About Me

I am a PhD student in the Department of Computing (Computational Optimisation Group) at Imperial College London, under the supervision of Dr Ruth Misener. I obtained a MEng degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and a MRes degree in Advanced Computing from Imperial College London in 2015 and 2016, respectively. My projects can be found on my GitHub page.

Contact

miten.mistry11@imperial.ac.uk

Research Interests

• Mixed-Integer Optimisation

• Mathematical Analysis

Awards and Scholarships

• EPSRC HiPEDS Centre for Doctoral Training

• Donald Davies memorial prize for MEng thesis [2014–2015]. Increasing energy efficiency in industrial plants: Optimising heat exchanger networks. Supervisor: Dr R. Misener.

Publications

• Mistry M., Letsios D., Krennrich G., Lee R. M., Misener R.. Mixed-Integer Convex Nonlinear Optimization with Gradient-Boosted Trees Embedded. ArXiv eprints; 1803.00952, 2018.
  Accepted in INFORMS Journal on Computing.

• Letsios D., Baltean-Lugojan R., Ceccon F., Mistry M., Wiebe J., Misener R. Approximation algorithms for process systems engineering. Computers & Chemical Engineering; 132, 2020.

• Mistry M., Callia D'Iddio A., Huth M., Misener R. Satisfiability modulo theories for process systems engineering. Computers & Chemical Engineering; 113:98–114, 2018.

• Mistry M., Misener R. Integrating mixed-integer optimisation & satisfiability modulo theories: Application to scheduling. In Foundations of Computer Aided Process Operations/Chemical Process Control. Computer-Aided Chemical Engineering. Tucson, USA; 2017.

• Mistry M., Misener R. Optimising heat exchanger network synthesis using convexity properties of the logarithmic mean temperature difference. Computers & Chemical Engineering; 94:1–17, 2016.

Presentations

• Mistry M., Zhao S., Letsios D., Krennrich G., Lee R. M., Misener R. Optimising over gradient-boosted tress with convex penalty functions. 16^th INFORMS Computing Society Conference. Knoxville, USA. January 2019.

• Mistry M., Misener R., Lee R. M., Letsios D., Krennrich G. Optimising over gradient-boosted tress with convex penalty functions. 23^rd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming. Bordeaux, France. July 2018.

• Mistry M., Letsios D., Misener R., Krennrich G., Lee R. M.. Optimising with gradient-boosted tress and risk control. Designing and Implementing Algorithms for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization. Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. February 2018.

• Mistry M., Misener R. Solving MINLP with heat exchangers: Special structure detection and large-scale global optimisation. AIChE Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, USA. November 2015.

• Misener R., Mistry M. Solving MINLP with heat exchangers: Special structure detection and large-scale global optimisation. 13^th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimisation. Edinburgh, UK. July 2015.

Posters

• Mistry M., Letsios D., Misener R., Lee R. M., Krennrich G. Optimising over Machine Learning Tree-Based Models. STEM for Britain. Houses of Parliament, UK. March 2019.

• Mistry M., Letsios D., Misener R., Lee R. M., Krennrich G. Optimising with gradient-boosted trees and risk control. Google PhD Poster Competition. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK. May 2018.

• Mistry M., Letsios D., Misener R., Lee R. M., Krennrich G. Optimising with gradient-boosted trees and risk control. Centre for Process Systems Engineering Industrial Consortium Meeting. Imperial College London, UK. December 2017.

• Mistry M., Misener R. Planning and scheduling: Mixed-integer programming combined with logical methods. Centre for Process Systems Engineering Industrial Consortium Meeting. Imperial College London, UK. December 2016.

Mentoring Assistance

Students at Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK (Primary advisor: Dr R. Misener):

• Shudian Zhao. Warm start for optimization of gradient-boosted trees. MSc 2018.

Teaching

Lecturer

• Global Optimisation [short course, 2 hours]. Advanced Optimisation module. Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London, UK. May 2018, 2019.

• Introduction to Global Optimisation [short course, 2 hours]. Introduction to Optimisation module. Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London, UK. May 2018, 2019.

Tutor

• CO145 Mathematical Methods. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK. Autumn 2017, 2018.

Teaching Assistant

• CO140 Logic. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK. Autumn 2018.

• CO343 Operations Research. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK. Autumn 2016, 2018.

• CO477 Computational Optimisation. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK. Autumn 2017.