Swati Gupta is the Class of 1947 Career Development Associate Professor and an Associate Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the Operations Research and Statistics Group.
Her work focuses on deep theoretical questions in optimization and AI—many of which are grounded in real-world challenges—striving to bridge the gap between rigorous theory and meaningful practice. She broadly works on (i) static and dynamic algorithms for incomplete and erroneous data, (ii) multi-criteria decision-making using optimization and learning, and (iii) bridging discrete, continuous, and quantum optimization. Her work spans various domains such as hiring, admissions, districting, e-commerce, platforms, supply chains, healthcare, quantum optimization, and energy. She frequently interacts and collaborates with industry, as well as with doctors, physicists, law and policy scholars. She has led various high-impact projects, including serving as the lead of Ethical AI at the NSF AI Institute on Advances in Optimization from 2021-2023.
She received the NSF CAREER Award in 2023, the Class of 1934: Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching in 2020 and 2021 at Georgia Tech, the JP Morgan Early Career Faculty Recognition in 2021, the NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative Award in 2019, and the Google Women in Engineering Award (India) in 2011. She was also awarded the prestigious Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship in 2017-2018. Her research and students have received recognition at various venues like INFORMS Doing Good with OR 2022 (finalist), INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research 2018 (honorable mention), INFORMS Computing Society 2016 (special recognition), and INFORMS Service Science Student Paper 2016 (finalist).
Swati currently serves as an associate editor of the Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization. She has served on the technical program committees for top conferences in optimization, machine learning, and algorithmic fairness, e.g., Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO 2026, 2024), Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023, area chair), and ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT 2022, area chair).
Swati received a PhD in operations research from MIT in 2017 and a joint Master’s and Bachelor in Technology in computer science from IIT Delhi in 2011.
