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My research interests are in algorithm design and analysis, with a focus on graphs and vehicle routing problems. In particular,
I am interested in developing online, approximation, and randomized algorithms, and testing these algorithms on real-world
data. I am also interested in modeling and simulating stochastic networks for routing and traveling problems.

Publications:

Barbara Anthony, Christine Chung, Ananya Das, David Yuen. Earliest Deadline First is a 2-approximation for
DARP with Time Windows. Conference on Combinatorial Algorithms and Applications (COCOA), December 2023.

Ananya Das Christman,
Christine Chung, Nicholas Jaczko, Tianzhi Li, Scott Westvold, Xinyue Xu, David Yuen.
Improved bounds for budgeted Online Dial-a-Ride.  Springer Nature Operations Research Forum. July 2021. [pdf]

Barbara Anthony, Ananya Das Christman, Christine Chung, Patrick Davis, Jigar Dhimar, David Yuen. 
Serving rides of equal importance for budgeted Dial-a-Ride. International Conference on Mathematical
Optimization Theory and Operations Research (MOTOR), July 2021.
[pdf]

Ananya Das Christman, Christine Chung, Nicholas Jaczko, Tianzhi Li, Scott Westvold, Xinyue Xu, David Yuen. New bounds for
maximizing
revenue in online dial-a-ride.
International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA). June 2020. [pdf]

Ananya Das Christman, Christine Chung, Nicholas Jaczko, Scott Westvold, David Yuen. Robustly Hosting Unstable Items.
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (
JOCO). January 2020. [pdf]

Barbara Anthony, Sara Boyd, Ricky Birnbaum, Ananya Christman, Christine Chung, Patrick Davis, Jigar Dhimar, David Yuen.
Maximizing the number of rides served for Dial-a-Ride.
Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling,
Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS). September 2019. [pdf]

Ananya Das Christman, Christine Chung, Nicholas Jaczko, Scott Westvold, David Yuen. Robustly Hosting Unstable Items.
Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA). Decemeber 2018. [pdf]

Ananya Das Christman, William Forcier, Aayam Poudel. From theory to practice: maximizing profit for Online Dial-a-Ride.
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (JOCO). October 2017. [pdf]

Ananya Das Christman, Christine Chung, Nicholas Jaczko, Marina Milan, Anna Vasilchenko, Scott Westvold. Revenue
Maximization in Online Dial-A-Ride
. Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and
Systems (ATMOS). September 2017. [pdf]

Hamza Alsarhan, Davin Chia, Ananya Christman, Shannia Fu, Yanfeng Jin. A Two-Pass Algorithm for Unordered Colored
Bin Packing.
Conference on Discrete Optimization and Operations Research (DOOR) (now known as Mathematical Optimization
Theory and Operations Research (MOTOR)). September 2016. [pdf]

Ananya Das Christman and William Forcier. Maximizing Revenues for On-Line Dial-a-Ride. Conference on Combinatorial and
Optimization Algorithms (COCOA). December 2014.
[pdf]

Ananya Das Christman and Joao Cassamano. Maximizing the Probability of Arriving on Time. Analytical and Stochastic Modeling
Techniques and Applications (ASMTA). July 2013.
[pdf]

Ananya Das. Maximizing Profit Using SLA-Aware Provisioning. IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS).
April 2012. [pdf]
 
Ananya Das, Charles Martel, Biswanath Mukherjee, and Smita Rai.  A New Approach to Reliable Multipath Provisioning. Journal of
Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), Vol. 3, issue 1, pp. 95-103, December 2010. [pdf]

Ananya Das, Charles Martel, Biswanath Mukherjee. A Partial-Protection Approach Using Multipath Provisioning. IEEE International
Communications Conference (ICC). June 2009.
[pdf]
 
Ananya Das and Charles Martel. Stochastic Shortest Paths with Unlimited Hops.  Information Processing Letters (IPL). Vol. 109,
issue 5, pp. 290-295, February 2009.
[pdf]

Ananya Das, Charles Martel, Biswanath Mukherjee, Smita Rai. A Better Approach to Multipath Provisioning. IEEE Global
Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), March 2007.
[pdf]





A Better Ap

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