Rajiv Sambharya

I am an Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. My research lies at the intersection of optimization, control, and machine learning. I focus on developing data-driven tools to enable fast and reliable optimization. My email is rajivsambharyafoo@tamu.edu.

Upcoming Talks

Sep 2026

University of Delaware, Robotics Graduate Student Organization

Nov 2026

INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco

News

Sep 2026

New preprint on Verifying Performance, Stability, and Feasibility of Inexact Non-linear Model Predictive Controllers with Sribalaji C. Anand and George Pappas. We develop an optimization framework that numerically certifies the worst-case suboptimality, closed-loop stability, and feasibility of inexact controllers for non-linear model predictive control.

I gave a talk at the Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Department Seminar at Texas A&M University on Learning Algorithm Hyperparameters for Fast Parametric Convex Optimization. Thank you Jorge Alvarado and Albert Patterson for the invitation!

Aug 2026

I began teaching DAEN429: Data Analytics II at Texas A&M, a deep learning course in the Data Engineering program.

I have started as an Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Texas A&M University!

Jul 2026

Our paper Learning Algorithm Hyperparameters for Fast Parametric Convex Optimization with Bartolomeo Stellato was accepted to the SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science.

Mar 2026

I organized a session called Data-Driven Algorithm Design and Analysis for Parametric Optimization at the INFORMS Optimization Society Conference in Atlanta. Thank you Mathieu Dahan for the kind invitation. In the same session, I gave a talk on Verification of Sequential Convex Programming for Parametric Non-convex Optimization.

Nov 2025

New preprint on Verification of Sequential Convex Programming for Parametric Non-convex Optimization with Nik Matni and George Pappas. We introduce a verification framework to exactly verify the worst-case performance of sequential convex programming (SCP) algorithms for parametric non-convex optimization. Our framework provides, for the first time, global worst-case guarantees for SCP algorithms in the parametric setting.

Last updated: 09-15-2026