Dr. Vinod Kumar Chauhan is a Research Associate in Industrial Machine Learning in the Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering at University of Cambridge UK. He has a PhD in Machine Learning from Panjab University Chandigarh India. His research interests are in Machine Learning, Optimization and Network Science. He specializes in solving large-scale optimization problems in Machine Learning, handwriting recognition, flight delay propagation in airlines, robustness and nestedness in complex networks and supply chain design using mathematical programming, genetic algorithms and reinforcement learning.