Title
Advances in Multiobjective Optimization and Applications in Healthcare

Abstract
Multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) abound in real-life situations that require simultaneous optimization of multiple conflicting objectives such that improving solutions in terms of one objective leads to deterioration in terms of one or more of the other objectives. In MOPs, the target is to arrive at the best trade-off surface, called the Pareto optimal front. Many problems in Healthcare and Computational Biology involve optimization of more than one objective, which conflict with each other. Multiobjective optimization techniques, therefore, find wide applications in healthcare.
In this talk, we will first provide a brief introduction to MOPs and discuss some metaheuristics for solving them. A brief introduction to some problems in healthcare and computational biology will be provided. The central dogma of molecular biology will be briefly explained. This will be followed by a description of two applications of multiobjective optimization, namely, in drug design and in deep learning based biomedical image segmentation. The talk will conclude with a mention of some recent developments in MOPs, namely, multi-modal MOPs.

Biodata
Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay did her B Tech, M Tech, and Ph. D. in Computer Science from Calcutta University, IIT Kharagpur, and Indian Statistical Institute, respectively. She then joined the Indian Statistical Institute as a faculty member, where she is currently a senior Professor. She was the Director of the Institute for the terms 2015-2020 and 2020-2025. Her research interests include computational biology, soft and evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Prof. Bandyopadhyay has worked in many Institutes and Universities worldwide. She is the recipient of many top honors, including the Bhatnagar Prize, TWAS Prize, Infosys Prize, Humboldt Fellowship from Germany, and Senior Associateship of ICTP. She is a Fellow of all the National Science Academies and the Engineering Academy of India, the IEEE, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). She serves as a member of the Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of India (PM-STIAC). In 2022, she was conferred the Padma Shri award of the Government of India.