Vaneet Aggarwal honored with Reilly Professorship
Vaneet Aggarwal honored with Reilly Professorship
Vaneet Aggarwal has been named the Reilly Professor of Industrial Engineering.
The Purdue University Board of Trustees has ratified a named professorship for Vaneet Aggarwal, recognizing his outstanding achievements in research, teaching, and leadership within the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering. Aggarwal now holds the prestigious title of Reilly Professor of Industrial Engineering.
Young-Jun Son, James J. Solberg Head and Ransburg Professor of Industrial Engineering, and Vaneet Aggarwal, Reilly Professor of Industrial Engineering
Aggarwal’s work focuses on supervised learning, reinforcement learning, large language models, quantum machine learning and their applications in networking, transportation, robotics, healthcare, and biomedical. Some of his recent work includes bladder cancer research, and most recently, he played a key role in organizing and leading the Purdue Quantum AI Workshop (Salvendy Symposium), a major interdisciplinary event that brought together experts to explore the accelerating frontier of quantum-enhanced artificial intelligence.
The following text was provided by the Board of Trustees regarding Aggarwal's named professorship.
Aggarwal is a professor and University Faculty Scholar in Purdue’s Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, which he joined in 2015. He holds courtesy appointments in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science. Aggarwal’s research focuses on reinforcement learning, generative AI, large language model alignment, quantum machine learning and applications of machine learning. His scholarship includes top-tier publications in 188 journal publications and 209 peer-reviewed conference publications (including 80-plus in A/A* CORE-ranked venues, the computer science equivalent of journal papers). He also holds 20 U.S. patents and was chosen as founding co-editor-in-chief of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems. Additionally, he serves on the editorial board of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and previously served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking and IEEE Transactions on Communications. His awards and honors include being featured on the cover of Nature; being named an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer; receiving the IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize, the IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, Princeton University’s Porter Ogden Jacobus Honorific Fellowship, IEEE Infocom Workshop Best Paper Award and the NeurIPS Workshop Best Paper Award; being named Most Impactful Faculty Inventor at Purdue; and more.
The Reilly Professor of Industrial Engineering professorship honors Vincent P. Reilly, a 1922 Purdue alumnus and founder of Illinois Gear and Machine Co. The endowment was created in 1969.
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