Mohit Tawarmalani

Executive Associate Dean of Strategy, Research, and Innovation
Allison & Nancy Schleicher Chair
Professor
Quantitative Methods

Education

Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois
M.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology

Mohit Tawarmalani is the Executive Associate Dean and Allison and Nancy Schleicher Professor at the Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University. He serves as the academic director of Krenicki Center for Business Analytics and Machine Learning. He received his Ph.D. and Masters from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to that, he received his Bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Mohit has worked in the MIS area of Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company (1993-1994) and as a software engineer in geometric modeling at ComputerVision (1995). He teaches courses in business analytics and optimization.

Mohit Tawarmalani’s research interests are at the interface of computer science, optimization, and operations research with applications in business and engineering. Mohit has co-authored a book on global optimization algorithms and has co-authored BARON, a software package widely used for global optimization. Mohit has interest in applications of optimization in harnessing solar energy, building better distillation trains, network systems design, and in understanding economics of business decisions. For his research, Mohit has been awarded the INFORMS Computing Society Prize in 2004, the Best Paper Award from the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems in 2005, the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize from the Mathematical Programming Society in 2006, and the Computing in Chemical Engineering from AIChE in 2024. He is also the 2003 Jay N. Ross Young Faculty Scholar and the 2006 Krannert Faculty Fellow.

Mohit was a founding co-director of Purdue’s Masters in Business Analytics and Information Management program, the co-chair of the design committee for Bachelors in Business Analytics and Information Management program, and led the team that won the INFORMS UPS George D. Smith Prize for innovative educational practices in training students to be practitioners of operations research and analytics.

Mohit serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Global Optimization, Mathematical Programming Computation and SIAM Journal on Optimization. Mohit is a participant of the 2024-2025 Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program.

Personal website: mohit.prof

Journal Articles

Mohit Tawarmalani (2026). "New finite relaxation hierarchies for concavo-convex,disjoint bilinear programs, and facial disjunctions." Mathematical Programming / Springer | Related Website |
Kim, Jongeun and Richard, J.-P. P. and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2025). "A Reciprocity Between Tree Ensemble Optimization and Multilinear Optimization." Operations Research vol. 73 2610–2626. | Related Website |
Nogaja, Akash Sanjay and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2025). "Comparing exergy and heat pump work in distillation systems." AIChE Journal / Wiley Online Library e18895. | Related Website |
Jiang, Zheyu and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2025). "Minimum reflux calculation for multicomponent distillation in multi-feed, multi-product columns: Algorithms and examples." AIChE Journal / Wiley Online Library e70016. | Related Website |
Nogaja, Akash Sanjay and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2025). "A Computationally Efficient Heat Pump Model for Quick and Reliable Identification of Energy-Efficient Distillation Configurations." Chemical Engineering Science / Elsevier (0009-2509), 122707. | Related Website |
He, Taotao and Liu, Siyue and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2025). "Convexification Techniques for Fractional Programs." Mathematical Programming vol. 213 107-149. | Related Website |
He, Taotao and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2024). "MIP Relaxations in Factorable Programming." SIAM Journal on Optimization vol. 34 2856–2882. | Related Website |
Mathew, Tony Joseph and Narayanan, Sundar and Jalan, Amrit and Matthews, Logan R and Gupta, Himanshu and Billimoria, Rustom and Pereira, Carla Sofia and Goheen, Chris and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2024). "Optimization of distillation configurations for multicomponent-product distillations." Computers & Chemical Engineering / Pergamon 108628. | Related Website |
Chen, Zewei and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2024). "Global minimization of power consumptions for multicomponent gas membrane cascades." Computers & Chemical Engineering /Pergamon vol. 180 108464. | Related Website |
Gooty, Radhakrishna Tumbalam and Agrawal, Rakesh and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2024). "Advances in MINLP to identify energy-efficient distillation configurations." Operations Research/INFORMS vol. 72 639–659. | Related Website |
Kim, Jongeun and Richard, Jean-Philippe P. and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2024). "Piecewise Polyhedral Relaxations of Multilinear Optimization." SIAM Journal on Optimization vol. 34 3167-3193. | Related Website |
Nogaja, Akash and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2024). "Cogeneration improves separation efficiency." Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research vol. 63 18564–18574. | Related Website |
Gooty, Radhakrishna Tumbalam and Mathew, Tony Joseph and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2023). "An MINLP formulation to identify thermodynamically-efficient distillation configurations." Computers & Chemical Engineering / Pergamon vol. 178 108369. | Related Website |
Mathew, Tony Joseph and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2023). "Relaxing the constant molar overflow assumption in distillation optimization." AIChE Journal vol. 69 (9), e18125. | Related Website |
Chavez Velasco, Jose Adrian and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2022). "Which separation scenarios are advantageous for membranes or distillations?" AIChE Journal / John Wiley & Sons, Inc.?Hoboken, USA vol. 68 (11), e17839. | Related Website |
Jiang, Zheyu and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2022). "Minimum reflux calculation for multicomponent distillation in multi-feed, multi-product columns: Mathematical model." AIChE Journal / Wiley Online Library vol. 68 (12), e17929. | Related Website |
Chandra, Ashish and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2022). "Probability estimation via policy restrictions, convexification, and approximate sampling." Mathematical Programming / Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg vol. 196 (1), 309–345. | Related Website |
Kim, Jinhak and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Richard, Jean-Philippe P (2022). "Convexification of permutation-invariant sets and an application to sparse principal component analysis." Mathematics of Operations Research / INFORMS vol. 47 (4), 2547–2584. | Related Website |
He, Taotao and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2022). "Tractable relaxations of composite functions." Mathematics of Operations Research / INFORMS vol. 47 (2), 1110-1140. | Related Website |
Mathew, Tony Joseph and Narayanan, Sundar and Jalan, Amrit and Matthews, Logan and Gupta, Himanshu and Billimoria, Rustom and Pereira, Carla Sofia and Goheen, Chris and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2022). "Advances in distillation: Significant reductions in energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions for crude oil separation." Joule / Elsevier vol. 6 (11), 2500–2512. | Related Website |
Nogaja, Akash Sanjay and Mathew, Tony Joseph and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2022). "Identifying heat-integrated energy-efficient multicomponent distillation configurations." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research / American Chemical Society vol. 61 (37), 13984–13995. | Related Website |
Chavez Velasco, Jose Adrian and Gooty, Radhakrishna Tumbalam and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2021). "Optimal design of membrane cascades for gaseous and liquid mixtures via MINLP." Journal of Membrane Science / Elsevier vol. 636 119514. | Related Website |
Nguyen, Trang T and Richard, Jean-Philippe P and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2021). "Convexification techniques for linear complementarity constraints." Journal of Global Optimization / Springer vol. 80 249–286. | Related Website |
Chavez Velasco, Jose Adrian and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2021). "Systematic analysis reveals thermal separations are not necessarily most energy intensive." Joule / Elsevier vol. 5 (2), 330–343. | Related Website |
Mathew, Tony Joseph and Tumbalam Gooty, Radhakrishna and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2021). "A simple criterion for feasibility of heat integration between distillation streams based on relative volatilities." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research / American Chemical Society vol. 60 (28), 10286–10302.
He, Taotao and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2021). "A new framework to relax composite functions in nonlinear programs." Mathematical Programming / Springer Berlin Heidelberg vol. 190 427–466. | Related Website |
Jiang, Zheyu and Chen, Zewei and Huff, Joshua and Shenvi, Anirudh A and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2019). "Global minimization of total exergy loss of multicomponent distillation configurations." AIChE Journal / John Wiley & Sons, Inc.?Hoboken, USA vol. 65 (11), e16737. | Related Website |
Mathew, Tony Joseph and Tumbalam Gooty, Radhakrishna and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2019). "110th anniversary: thermal coupling via heat transfer: a potential route to simple distillation configurations with lower heat duty." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research / American Chemical Society vol. 58 (47), 21671–21678. | Related Website |
Jiang, Zheyu and Mathew, Tony Joseph and Zhang, Haibo and Huff, Joshua and Nallasivam, Ulaganathan and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2019). "Global optimization of multicomponent distillation configurations: Global minimization of total cost for multicomponent mixture separations." Computers & Chemical Engineering / Pergamon vol. 126 249–262. | Related Website |
Gooty, Radhakrishna Tumbalam and Agrawal, Rakesh and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2019). "An MINLP formulation for the optimization of multicomponent distillation configurations." Computers & Chemical Engineering / Pergamon vol. 125 13-30. | Related Website |
Wu, Jianqing and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Kannan, Karthik N (2019). "Cardinality bundling with Spence–Mirrlees reservation prices." Management Science / INFORMS vol. 65 (4), 1891–1908. | Related Website |
Kim, Jinhak and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Richard, Jean-Philippe P (2019). "On cutting planes for cardinality-constrained linear programs." Mathematical Programming / Springer Berlin Heidelberg vol. 178 417–448. | Related Website |
Ramapriya, Gautham Madenoor and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh Year: 2018 (2018). "A systematic method to synthesize all dividing wall columns for n-component separation: Part II." AIChE Journal / Wiley Online Library vol. 64 (2), 660–672. | Related Website |
Nguyen, Trang T and Richard, Jean-Philippe P and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2018). "Deriving convex hulls through lifting and projection." Mathematical Programming / Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg vol. 169 377–415. | Related Website |
Ramapriya, Gautham Madenoor and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2018). "A systematic method to synthesize all dividing wall columns for n-component separation—Part I." AIChE Journal vol. 64 (2), 649–659. | Related Website |
Ramapriya, Gautham Madenoor and Selvarajah, Ajiththaa and Jimenez Cucaita, Luis Eduardo and Huff, Joshua and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2018). "Short-cut methods versus rigorous methods for performance-evaluation of distillation configurations." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research / American Chemical Society vol. 57 (22), 7726–7731. | Related Website |
Jiang, Zheyu and Ramapriya, Gautham Madenoor and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2018). "Minimum energy of multicomponent distillation systems using minimum additional heat and mass integration sections." AIChE Journal vol. 64 (9), 3410–3418. | Related Website |
Davarnia, Danial and Richard, Jean-Philippe P and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2017). "Simultaneous convexification of bilinear functions over polytopes with application to network interdiction." SIAM Journal on Optimization / Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics vol. 27 (3), 1801–1833. | Related Website |
Ramapriya, G. M., M. Tawarmalani, R. Agrawal (2016). "Thermal coupling links to liquid-only transfer streams: An enumeration method for new FTC dividing wall columns." AIChE Journal vol. 62 1200-1211. | Related Website |
Kannan, K., M. S. Rahman, and M. Tawarmalani (2016). "Economics and policy implications of restricted patch distribution on software maintenance." Management Science vol. 62 3161-3182. | Related Website |
Nallasivam, Ulaganathan and Shah, Vishesh H and Shenvi, Anirudh A and Huff, Joshua and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2016). "Global optimization of multicomponent distillation configurations: 2. Enumeration based global minimization algorithm." AIChE Journal vol. 62 (6), 2071–2086. | Related Website |
Bao, X., A. Khajavirad, N. V. Sahinidis, and M. Tawarmalani (2015). "Global Optimization of nonconvex problems with multilinear intermediates." Mathematical Programming Computation vol. 7 (1), 1-37. | Related Website |
Ramapriya, G. M., A. Shenvi, M. Tawarmalani, R. Agrawal (2015). "A new framework for combining condenser and reboiler in a configuration to consolidate distillation columns." Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. vol. 54 10449-10464. | Related Website |
Gençer, E., D. S. Mallapragada, F. Maréchal, M. Tawarmalani, and R. Agrawal (2015). "Round-the-clock power supply and a sustainable economy via synergistic integration of solar thermal power and hydrogen processes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (direct submission) vol. 112 15821-15826. | Related Website |
Mallapragada, D. S., M. Tawarmalani, R. Agrawal (2014). "Synthesis of augmented biofuel processes using solar energy." AIChE Journal vol. 60 (7), 2533-2545. | Related Website |
Ramapriya, G. M., M. Tawarmalani, R. Agrawal (2014). "Thermal Coupling Links to Liquid-only Transfer Streams: A Path for New Dividing Wall Columns." AIChE Journal vol. 60 (8), 2949-2961. | Related Website |
Chung K., J.-P. P. Richard, and M. Tawarmalani (2014). "Lifted inequalities for 0-1 mixed-integer bilinear covering sets." Mathematical Programming vol. 145 403-450. | Related Website |
Ramapriya, G. M., M. Tawarmalani, R. Agrawal (2014). "Modified basic distillation configurations with intermediate sections for energy savings." AIChE Journal vol. 60 (3), 1091-1097. | Related Website |
Tawarmalani, M., J.-P. P. Richard, and C. Xiong (2013). "Explicit convex and concave envelopes through polyhedral subdivisions." Mathematical Programming vol. 138 531-577. | Related Website |
Nallasivam, U., V. H. Shah, A. A. Shenvi, M. Tawarmalani, and R. Agrawal (2013). "Global optimization of multicomponent distillation configurations: 1. Need for a reliable global optimization algorithm." AIChE Journal vol. 59 971-981. | Related Website |
Tawarmalani, Mohit and Li, Yanjun (2011). "Multi-period maintenance scheduling of tree networks with minimum flow disruption." Naval Research Logistics/Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company Hoboken vol. 58 (5), 507–530. | Related Website |
Tawarmalani, M. and Y. Li (2011). "Multi-period Network Maintenance Scheduling with Minimum Flow Disruption." Naval Research Logistics vol. 58 507-530. | Related Website |
Bao, X., N. V. Sahinidis, and M. Tawarmalani (2011). "Semidefinite Relaxations for Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming: A Review with Comparisons." Mathematical Programming vol. 129 129--157. | Related Website |
Richard, J.-P. P., and M. Tawarmalani (2010). "Lifting Inequalities: A Framework for Generating Strong Cuts for Nonlinear Programs." Mathematical Programming vol. 121 61-104. | Related Website |
Tawarmalani, M. and J.-P. P. Richard and K. Chung (2010). "Strong Valid Inequalities for Orthogonal Disjunctions and Bilinear Covering Sets." Mathematical Programming vol. 124 481-512. | Related Website |
Tawarmalani, M., K. Kannan, and P. De (2009). "Allocating Objects in a Network of Caches: Centralized and Decentralized Analyses." Management Science vol. 55 132-147. | Related Website |
Bao, X., N. V. Sahinidis, and M. Tawarmalani (2009). "Multiterm polyhedral relaxations for nonconvex, quadratically constrained quadratic programs." Optimization Methods and Software vol. 24 485-504. | Related Website |
Sahinidis, N. V. and M. Tawarmalani (2005). "Accelerating branch-and-bound through a language specific construct for relaxation-specific constraints." Journal of Global Optimization vol. 32 259-280. | Related Website |
Tawarmalani, M. and N. V. Sahinidis (2005). "A Polyhedral Branch-and-Cut Approach to Global Optimization." Mathematical Programming vol. 103 229-249. | Related Website |
Tawarmalani, M. and N. V. Sahinidis (2004). "Global Optimization of Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programs: A Theoretical and Computational Study." Mathematical Programming vol. 99 563-591. | Related Website |
Ahmed, S., M. Tawarmalani and N. V. Sahinidis (2004). "A Finite Branch and Bound Algorithm for Two-Stage Stochastic Integer Programs." Mathematical Programming vol. 100 355-377. | Related Website |
Sahinidis, N. V., M. Tawarmalani and M. Yu (2003). "Design of Alternative Refrigerants via Global Optimization." AIChE Journal vol. 49 1761-1775. | Related Website |
Tawarmalani, M., S. Ahmed and N. V. Sahinidis (2002). "Product Disaggregation and Relaxations of Mixed-Integer Rational Programs." Optimization and Engineering vol. 3 281-303.
Tawarmalani, M, S. Ahmed and N. V. Sahinidis (2002). "Global Optimization of 0-1 Hyperbolic Programs, Journal of Global Optimization." Journal of Global Optimization vol. 24 385-417. | Related Website |
Tawarmalani, M., & Sahinidis, N. (2002). "Convex Extensions and Envelopes of Lower Semi-Continuous Functions." Mathematical Programming vol. 93 247-263. | Related Website |
Tawarmalani, M., & Sahinidis, N. (2001). "Semidefinite Relaxations of Fractional Programs via Novel Convexification Techniques." Journal of Global Optimization vol. 20 137-158. | Related Website |
Tawarmalani, Mohit and Ahmed, Shabbir and Sahinidis, Nikolaos V (2001). "Product Disaggregation in Global Optimization and Relaxations of Rational Programs." Optimization and Engineering vol. 3 281–303. | Related Website |
Sahinidis N., & Tawarmalani M. (2000). "Applications of Global Optimization to Process and Molecular Design." Computers and Chemical Engineering/Pergamon vol. 24 (9-10), 2157-2169. | Related Website |
Adhya, N., Tawarmalani, M., & Sahinidis, N. (1999). "A Lagrangian Approach to Pooling Problems." Industrial and Engineering Chemistry vol. 38 (5), 1956-1972. | Related Website |

Conference Proceedings

AlQiam, Abd AlRhman and Li, Zhuocong and Ahuja, Satyajeet Singh and Wang, Zhaodong and Zhang, Ying and Rao, Sanjay G and Ribeiro, Bruno and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2025). "Hattrick: Solving Multi-Class TE using Neural Models." Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Conference 264–278. | Related Website |
Syed Usman Jafri and Sanjay Rao and Vishal Shrivastav and Mohit Tawarmalani (2024). "Leo: Online ML-based Traffic Classification at Multi-Terabit Line Rate." 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24) / USENIX Association Santa Clara, CA. (978-1939133397), 1573–1591. | Related Website |
AlQiam, Abd AlRhman and Yao, Yuanjun and Wang, Zhaodong and Ahuja, Satyajeet Singh and Zhang, Ying and Rao, Sanjay G. and Ribeiro, Bruno and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2024). "Transferable Neural WAN TE for Changing Topologies." Booktitle: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2024 Conference / Association for Computing Machinery Sydney, NSW, Australia. (9798400706141), 86-102.
Nagoja, Akash and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2024). "An MINLP Formulation for Global Optimization of Heat Integration-Heat Pump Assisted Distillations." Booktitle: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design / FOCAPD, 2024 | Related Website |
Mathew, Tony Joseph and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2022). "Systematically Identifying Energy-Efficient and Attractive Multicomponent Distillation Configurations." Computer Aided Chemical Engineering / Elsevier vol. 49 637–642. | Related Website |
Jiang, Chuan and Li, Zixuan and Rao, Sanjay and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2022). "Flexile: Meeting bandwidth objectives almost always." Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies 110-125. | Related Website |
Chavez Velasco, Jose Adrian and Chen, Zewei and Gooty, Radhakrishna Tumbalam and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2021). "Energy-efficient membrane cascades for industrial separations." Computer Aided Chemical Engineering / Elsevier vol. 50 359-364. | Related Website |
Jiang, Chuan and Rao, Sanjay and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2020). "PCF: provably resilient flexible routing." Booktitle: Proceedings of the Annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication 139–153. | Related Website |
Chang, Yiyang and Jiang, Chuan and Chandra, Ashish and Rao, Sanjay and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2019). "Lancet: Better network resilience by designing for pruned failure sets." Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems / ACM New York, NY, USA. vol. 3 1–26. | Related Website |
Jiang, Zheyu and Ramapriya, Gautham Madenoor and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2018). "Process Intensification in Multicomponent Distillation." Chemical Engineering Transactions | Related Website |
Gooty, Radhakrishna Tumbalam and Mobed, Parham and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2018). "Optimal multicomponent distillation column sequencing: Software and case studies." Computer Aided Chemical Engineering / Elsevier vol. 44 223–228. | Related Website |
Barik, Adarsh and Honorio, Jean and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2017). "Information theoretic limits for linear prediction with graph-structured sparsity." 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) / IEEE 2348–2352. | Related Website |
Chang, Yiyang and Rao, Sanjay and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2017). "Robust validation of network designs under uncertain demands and failures." 14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 17) 347-362. | Related Website |
Gen{}er, Emre and Mallapragada, Dharik and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Agrawal, Rakesh (2014). "Synergistic biomass and natural gas conversion to liquid fuel with reduced CO2 emissions." Computer Aided Chemical Engineering / Elsevier vol. 34 525-530. | Related Website |
Ramapriya, Gautham Madenoor and Tawarmalani, M and Agrawal, R (2014). "New, useful dividing wall columns for sustainable distillation." Book of Full Papers (Proceedings): 10th International Conference on Distillation & Absorption 76-81.
Shankaranarayanan, PN and Sivakumar, Ashiwan and Rao, Sanjay and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2014). "Performance sensitive replication in geo-distributed cloud datastores." 2014 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks /IEEE 240-251. | Related Website |
Nguyen, Trang T and Tawarmalani, Mohit and Richard, Jean-Philippe P (2011). "Convexification techniques for linear complementarity constraints." International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization / Springer Heidelberg Berlin. 336-345. | Related Website |
Hajjat, Mohammad and Sun, Xin and Sung, Yu-Wei Eric and Maltz, David and Rao, Sanjay and Sripanidkulchai, Kunwadee and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2010). "Cloudward bound: planning for beneficial migration of enterprise applications to the cloud." ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review / ACM New York, NY, USA. vol. 40 243-254. | Related Website |
Rahman, Mohammad Saifur and Kannan, Karthik N and Tawarmalani, Mohit (2007). "The Countervailing Incentive of Restricted Patch Distribution: Economic and Policy Implications." WEIS | Related Website |
Xia, Q and Ersoy, OK and Moskowitz, H and Tawarmalani, M (2007). "Interactive Clustering and Classification." Proceedings of Conf. Artificial Neural Networks in Eng., (ANNIE’08) 463-470. | Related Website |
Tawarmalani, Mohit and Kannan, Karthik Natarajan and De, Prabuddha (2005). "A Mechanism for Allocating Objects in a Network of Symmetric Caches." 15th Annual Workshop on Information Technolgies & Systems (WITS) Paper | Related Website |

Books

Tawarmalani, M., & Sahinidis, N. (2002). "Convexification and Global Optimization in Continuous and Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming." Kluwer Academic Publishers

Book Chapters

Tawarmalani, M., & Sahinidis, N. (2002). "Exact Algorithms for Global Optimization of Mixed-integer Nonlinear Programs." Kluwer Academic Publishers 65-85.
Tawarmalani, M. and N. V. Sahinidis (2001). "The Time Dependent Traveling Salesman Problem." Kluwer Academic Publishers vol. 5 445-450.

Conference Paper (refereed)

Barik, A., J. Honorio and M. Tawarmalani (2017). "Information Theoretic Limits For Linear Prediction with Graph-Structured Sparsity." IEEE Symposium on Information Theory
Chang, Y., S. Rao, and M. Tawarmalani (2017). "Robust validation of network designs under uncertain demands and failures." NSDI 347-362.
Gençer, E., M. Tawarmalani, and R. Agrawal (2015). "Integrated solar thermal hydrogen and power coproduction process for continuous power supply and production of chemicals." Computer Aided Chemical Engineering 12 International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering and 25 European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering vol. 37 2291-2296. | Related Website |
Narayanan, S., A. Sivakumar, S. Rao, and M. Tawarmalani (2014). "Performance sensitive replication in geo-distributed cloud datastores." IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks 240-251.
Nguyen, T. T., M. Tawarmalani, and J.-P. P. Richard (2011). "Convexification Techniques for Linear Complementarity Constraints." 15th conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
Hajjat, M., X. Sun, Y.W. Sung, D. Maltz, S. G. Rao, K. Sripanidkulchai, and M. Tawarmalani (2010). "Cloudward bound: Planning for Beneficial Migration of Enterprise Applications to the Cloud." Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm
Xia, Q., O. Ersoy, M. Tawarmalani, and H. Moskowitz (2008). "Interactive Clustering and Classification, Proceedings of Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering." ANNIE
Tawarmalani, M., K. Kannan and P. De (2005). "A Mechanism for Allocating Objects in a Network of Symmetric Caches." Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems

Working Papers

Nguyen, T. T. & J. P.-P. Richard & M. Tawarmalani (2014). "Deriving the convex hull of a polynomial partitioning set through lifting and projection."
Gencer, E. & D. Mallapragada & M. Tawarmalani & R. Agrawal (2014). "Synergistic Biomass and Natural Gas Conversion to Liquid Fuel with Reduced CO2 Emission."
S. Narayanan & A. Sivakumar & S. Rao & M. Tawarmalani (2014). "Performance sensitive replication in geo-distributed cloud datastores."
Ramapriya, G. M., M. Tawarmalani, and R. Agrawal "One simple rule synthesizes numerous, new easy-to-operate dividing wall columns for any thermally coupled distillation."
Zhang, H. Ramapriya, G. M., M. Tawarmalani, and R. Agrawal "Remixing losses due to column consolidation in distillation configuration synthesis: What/how/when?"
Tawarmalani, M. "Inclusion certificates and simultaneous convexification of functions."
Ramapriya, G. M., M. Tawarmalani, and R. Agrawal "A search space of dividing wall columns for multicomponent distillation and their synthesis." working paper
M. Tawarmalani, and J.-P. P. Richard "Decomposition techniques in convexification of inequalities."
Nallasivam, U., V. H. Shah, A. A. Shenvi, M. Tawarmalani, and R. Agrawal "Global optimization of multicomponent distillation configurations: 2. Enumeration based minimization algorithm." AIChE Journal
Davarnia, D., J.-P. P. Richard, and M. Tawarmalani "Simultaneous convexification of bilinear functions over polytopes with applications to network interdiction."
Kim, J. M. Tawarmalani, J.-P. P. Richard "On cutting planes for cardinality-constrained linear programs." Mathematical Programming
T. T. Nguyen, J-P. P. Richard, and M. Tawarmalani "Convexification Techniques for Linear Complementarity Problem." Mathematical Programming
Jiang, Z., G. M. Ramapriya, M. Tawarmalani, R. Agrawal "Minimum energy of multicomponent distillation systems using minimum additional number of heat and mass integration sections."

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Two Purdue University professors are being recognized for their research in chemical engineering computing.
Daniels School’s new leadership team in place
Since being unveiled as Purdue University’s next big move one year ago, the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business is gaining momentum, evidenced by a $50 million gift from the Lilly Endowment for the school’s new building, a $50 million gift from the Dean and Barbara White Foundation, and recognition as a game-changer in shaping the future of business education.
Purdue trustees approve Krannert School named and distinguished faculty positions
The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Friday (June 14) ratified seven named and distinguished faculty positions, including three within the Krannert School of Management. David Hummels was named a Distinguished Professor of Economics, Mohit Tawarmalani was named the Allison and Nancy Schleicher Chair in Management, and Annabelle Feng was named the John and Donna Krenicki Chair in Operations Management. Trustees also issued resolutions of appreciation for friends of the university whose names will be added to campus facilities.

2026 Walk the Talk Award

The Walk the Talk Awards are presented to those individuals who exemplify strong ethical character in their dealings with others, champion ethical practices or programs, or apply personal values in a manner that demonstrates integrity and high standards of excellence.

2025 Mira Award Finalist

Led Krenicki center as a 2025 Mira award finalist for higher education innovation

2025 Seed for Success Acorn Award

Recognition for securing external sponsored research funding exceeding $1 million

2024 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award ,CAST Division, AIChE

Computing in Chemical Engineering Award (with R. Agrawal), CAST Division, AIChE

2024-2025 Big Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program Fellow

Big Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program Fellow 2024-2025

2023 Distinguished Elective MBA Teaching Recognition

Distinguished Elective MBA Teaching Recognition

2023 INFORMS UPS George D Smith Prize

Led Purdue’s team to win 2023 INFORMS UPS George D. Smith Prize

2023 Salgo-Noren Outstanding Master’s Teacher

Salgo-Noren Outstanding Master’s Teacher

2022 Distinguished Elective MBA Teaching Recognition

Distinguished Elective MBA Teaching Recognition

2022 Salgo-Noren Outstanding Master’s Teacher

Salgo-Noren Outstanding Master’s Teacher

2021 Distinguished Elective MBA Teaching Recognition

Distinguished Elective MBA Teaching Recognition