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Theja Tulabandhula

Assistant Professor

Department of Information and Decision Sciences

Contact

Building & Room:

UH 2404

Address:

601 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607

Office Phone:

(312) 996-9456

Email:

theja@uic.edu

About

Theja is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. He obtained his PhD in computer science/machine learning from MIT CSAIL. He has 12+ years of experience in solving novel machine learning problems, and has built and deployed multiple ML solutions at scale. He has also co-authored 50+ research papers at top AI/ML related venues (e.g., JMLR, MLJ, UAI, AAMAS, WWW, Sensors, EJOR, MICCAI, ICASSP etc) and has been awarded 10+ patents.

His professional experiences include working with Apple, Citadel, State Street, Texas Instruments, AI Affinity, Headspace and others. His current research areas of interest include user behavior modeling, reinforcement learning and the use of machine learning techniques in impactful applications. He is motivated towards meaningfully helping improve AI driven service systems and positively contributing to the society.

Selected Publications

Marketing/Business 

Healthcare

Transportation

Core AI/ML/Robotics

Others

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Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Minor in Mathematics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Thesis area: Machine Learning. Advisor: Cynthia Rudin [GPA: 5/5] (2009–2014)

M. Tech. and B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering (Prime Minister’s Gold Medal for ranking 1 among 700+ students in terms of GPA and Institute Silver Medal), Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, India [GPA: 4.6/5] (2004–2009)

Intellectual Property

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  • 2013-01-24 – System and method for optimal automated booking of on-demand transportation in multi-modal journeys (Number: US-11562300-B2)
  • 2022-05-17 – Method and system for managing allocation of transportation services (Number: US-11334959-B2)
  • 2021-09-28 – Method and system for controlling key performance indicator parameters of a transportation system (Number: US-11132633-B2)
  • 2021-03-23 – Method and system for real time management of transportation services (Number: US-10957001-B2)
  • 2020-06-30 – Method and system for displaying targeted multimedia items to a ridesharing group (Number: US-10701429-B2)
  • 2019-01-08 – Method and system for dispatching of vehicles in a public transportation network (Number: US-10176443-B2)
  • 2018-12-11 – Methods and systems for automatically creating and suggesting compatible ride-sharing groups (Number: US-10152735-B2)
  • 2018-11-27 – Modeling a class posterior probability of context dependent phonemes in a speech recognition system (Number: US-10140979-B2)
  • 2018-06-26 – Method and system for managing a dispatch of vehicles (Number: US10008121-B2)