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Dr. Kousik Das

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in IEOR under the guidance of Prof. V. Kavitha. 

Research Interests:

  • Queueing and Inventory Theory (Correlated queueing models, Queueing-inventory models, Fluid queues, Polling systems, Queueing networks)
  • Stochastic Approximation
  • Game Theory (Turn-by-turn dynamics, Mean-field games)
  • Markov Decision Process (Application in Multi-armed Bandit Problems and Reinforcement Learning)

 

Co-Mentored IEOR Courses: 

  • IE 616-2025-2, IE 616-2024-2 (Decision Analysis and Game Theory)
  • IE 711-2025-1 (Advanced Topics in Game Theory)
     
     
     
     
     
     
  • CIE 708-2025-1 (Markov Decision Processes)
  • IE 807-2024-1 (Advanced Stochastic Processes for Operations Research II)
  • IE 694-2024-2 (Seminar)
     
     
     
  • CourseIE 899-2024-2 (Communication Skills)
  • IE 797-2025-1 (Stage Project)

 

Teaching Interests: 

  • Probability and Statistics
  • Stochastic Processes & Queueing Systems
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Probability and Stochastic Processes I
  • Probability and Stochastic Processes II
  • Markov Decision Process
  • Game Theory

 

Previous Position: 

Temporary Faculty for one academic year (August 2023- May 2024), Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Raipur. 

 

Doctoral Research: 

I completed my Doctorate from the Department of Mathematics, NIT Raipur, as a UGC Senior Research Fellow (SRF) in November 2023. My Doctoral supervisor is Prof. S. K. Samanta (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, NIT Raipur). My Doctoral research stream is Discrete-time correlated bulk queueing systems.

Publications: 

  1. S. K. Samanta, K. Das, A simple procedure to determine the queue length and waiting time distributions for M/Ga,b/1 queueing system, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 2025. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00186-025-00910-6

  2. K. Avrachenkov, K. Das, V. Kavitha, V. Singh, Stability of polling systems for a large class of Markovian switching policies, 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025, pp. 6426-6432. (A* Conference) doi: 10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11312235
  3. K. Das, V. Singh, K. Avrachenkov, V. Kavitha, Stability of polling systems: A linear class of two-phase switching policies near fluid limit, 2025. Abstract accepted in the 34th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2025), University of Leeds, United Kingdom. https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro34/treat_abstract?frompage=search&paperid=976

  4. K. Das, S. K. Samanta, Analytical and computational investigation of the GI/D-BMSP/1 queueing system, Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, 2024. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11518-024-5615-y

  5. K. Das, S. K. Samanta, Analytic computation for stationary distributions of D-BMAP/D-MSP(a,b)/1 queueing system, International Journal of Computer Mathematics: Computer Systems Theory, 9(4):253-282, 2024. (SCOPUS/ESCI) https://doi.org/10.1080/23799927.2024.2415451

  6. S. K. Samanta, K. Das, Detailed analytical and computational studies of D-BMAP/D-BMSP/1 queueing system, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 25(12), 2023. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-023-10012-7

  7. K. Das, S. K. Samanta, Computational analysis of GI[X]/D-MSP(a,b)/1 queueing system via RG-factorization, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 98(1):1-39, 2023. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00186-023-00816-1

  8. S. K. Samanta, K. Das, Computing stationary distributions of the D-MAP/D-MSP(a,b)/1 queueing system, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 13(1): 571-590, 2022. (SCIE)  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-021-02919-1

  9. K. Das, S. K. Samanta, Modelling and analysis of D-BMAP/D-MSP/1 queue using RG-factorization, Quality Technology & Quantitative Management, 18(3): 355-381, 2021. (SCIE)  https://doi.org/10.1080/16843703.2020.1830477

 Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_WfzYssAAAAJ&hl=en

 

Reviewer of International Journals:

  • International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
  • International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics
  • The Journal of Supercomputing
  • Scientific Reports

  • CDC Conference in The IEEE Control Systems Society Conference, Journals, Award Management System

 

Other Achievements:

  • Research Visit (November 2025) at Neo Team, Inria Sophia Antipolis, France, in collaboration with Prof. Konstantin Avrachenkov.
  • Selected as a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Computer Systems Group (CSG) in IIIT-Hyderabad, India, in 2024.
  • Selected as Assistant Professor in the Alliance School of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Science & Technology at Alliance University, Bangalore, in 2023.
  • Worked as a Junior Research Fellow in the CSIR-sponsored project at NIT Raipur.
  • Qualified CSIR-UGC NET JRF (AIR 84), GATE.
  • Awarded for DST INSPIRE (SHE) scholarship.
  • Awarded for state government merit-cum scholarship at secondary, higher secondary, graduate and postgraduate level.