Current Students
Past Students
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- Michel Goemans, Probabilistic and worst case analysis of LP relaxations for a class of connectivity problems, 1990 (Tucker prize of Mathem atical Programming Society, 1991, 2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1991).
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- Daisuke Nakazato, Transient distributional results in queues with applications to queueing networks, 1990.
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- Garrett van Ryzin, Dynamic vehicle routing problems, 1991 (2nd prize in Transportation dissertation competition of INFORMS, 1992, honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1991).
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- Peter Vranas, Ground holding strategies for a network of airports in air traffic control, 1992 (2nd prize in Transportation dissertation competition, 1992).
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- Michael Peterson, Transient congestion phenomena in air transportation, 1992.
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- Carolyn Haibt-Norton, Topics in discrete optimization, 1993.
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- Haiping Xu, Optimal policies for stochastic and dynamic vehicle routing problems, 1994.
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- Zhihang Chi, Dynamic and network effects in airline yield management, 1994.
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- Gina Mourtzinou, An axiomatic approach to queueing systems, 1995 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1996).
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- Jose Nino-Mora, Optimal resource allocation in a dynamic and stochastic environment: a mathematical programming approach, 1995.
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- Michael Ricard, Optimization of queueing networks: a linear control approach, 1995.
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- Joe Milner, A market approach to airtraffic control, 1995.
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- Andrew Luo, Continuous linear programming: Theory, algorithms and applications, 1995.
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- Chung Piaw Teo, Constructing approximation algorithms via linear programming relaxations: primal dual and randomized rounding techniques, 1996 (honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1996).
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- John Paschalidis, Large deviations in high speed communication networks, 1996 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1997).
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- Sarah Stock, Stochastic and dynamic models for airtraffic flow management, 1997 (1st prize in Transportation Dissertation of INFORMS, 1997, 2nd prize in Dantzig award, 1997).
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- David Gamarnik, Stability and performance of multiclass queueing networks, 1997.
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- Thalia Chryssikou, Multiperiod portfolio optimization in the presence of transaction costs, 1998.
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- Ioana Popescu, Applications of optimization in probability, finance and revenue management, 1999, (honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1999).
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- Jay Sethuraman, A stochastic control approach for multiclass queueing networks, 1999 (honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2000).
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- Leon Hsu, The bottleneck phenomenon in transportation systems, 1999.
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- Ramazan Demir, Approximate dynamic programming for integer programming problems, 2000.
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- Dessi Pachamanova, A robust optimization approach to finance, 2002.
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- Sanne de Boer, Pricing and revenue management in a netwrok environment, 2003 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2003).
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- Adam Mersereau, Adaptive and dynamic models in marketing, 2003.
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- Romy Shioda, An Integer programming approach to data mining, 2003.
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- Natasha Bushueva, Finance without price dynamics, 2003.
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- Jeff Hawkins, A Lagrangean decomposition method for dynamic optimization and its applications, 2003.
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- Karthik Natarajan, Probabilistic Combinatorial Optimization: Moments, Semidefinite Programming and Asymptotic Bounds, (Honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2003), Singapore-MIT-Alliance, 2004.
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- Melvyn Sim, Robust optimization, 2004 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2002 and 2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2004), 2004.
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- Aurelie Thiele, A robust optimization approach to supply chains and revenue management, (1st prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2003), 2004.
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- Michele Aghassi, Robust optimization, game theory and variational inequalities, 2005.
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- David Brown, Risk and robust optimization, 2006 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2005).
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- Constantine Caramanis, Adaptive optimization, 2006.
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- Kwong Meng Teo, Nonconvex robust Optimization, 2007.
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- David Czerwinski, Assessing quality of health care, 2008.
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- Premal Shah, Analysis of employee stock options and guaranteed withdrawal benefits for life ,2008.
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- Margret Bjarnadottir, A data driven approach to health care: applications using claims data, 2008.
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- Dmitriy Katz-Rogozhnikov, Algorithmic issues in queueing systems and combinatorial counting problems, 2008.
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- Apostolos Fertis, A robust optimization appraoch to stastical estimation problems, 2009.
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- Xuan Vinh Doan, Optimization under moment, robust, and data-driven models of uncertainty, 2009.
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- Dan Iancu, Multi-stage adjustable robust optimization, with applications in inventory and revenue management, 2010 (1st prize in student paper competition in Optimization Section of INFORMS, 2009).
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- Adrian Becker, Decomposition methods for large scale stochastic and robust optimization problems, 2011.
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- Xu Sun, Advances in electric power systems: robustness, adaptability, and fairness, 2011 (2nd prize in George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, 2011).
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- Alex Rikun, Applications of robust optimization to queueing and inventory systems, 2011.
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- Nikolaos Trichakis, Fairness in operations: from theory to practice, 2011.
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- Allison An Chang, Integer optimization methods for machine learning, 2012.
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- Shubham Gupta, A tractable optimization framework for air traffic flow management addressing fairness, collaboration and stochasticity, 2012.
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- Michael Joseph Frankovich, Air traffic flow management at airports: A unified optimization approach, 2012.
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- Chaithanya Bandi, Tractable stochastic analysis in high dimensions via robust optimization, 2013.
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- Allison O'Hair, Personalized diabetes management, 2013.
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- Matthew Fontana, Optimal Routes for Electric Vehicles Facing Uncertainty, Congestion, and Energy Constraints, 2013.
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- Matthew Fontana, Optimal Routes for Electric Vehicles Facing Uncertainty, Congestion, and Energy Constraints, 2013.
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- Vishal Gupta, Data-Driven Models for Uncertainty and Behavior, 2014.
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- Nathan Kallus, From data to decisions through new interfaces between optimization and statistics (best paper award among ORC students in 2013, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2013), 2015.
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- Angie King, Regression under a modern optimization lens, 2015.
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- John Silberholz, (winner of the William Pierskalla award in 2013 for best paper in Health care), Analytics for Improved Cancer Screening and Treatment, 2015.
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- Nataly Youssef (best paper award among ORC students in 2012, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2012) Stochastic Analysis via Robust Optimization, 2016.
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- Iain Dunning, Advances in Robust and Adaptive Optimization: Algorithms, Software, and Insights, 2016.
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- Velibor Misic, Data, Models and Decisions for Large-Scale Stochastic Optimization Problems, 2016.
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- Nikita Korolko, A Robust Optimization Approach to Online Problems, 2017.
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- Jerry Kung, An Analytics Approach to Problems in Health Care, 2017.
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- Alex Weinstein, From Data to Decisions in Healthcare: An Optimization Perspective, 2017.
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- Martin Copenhaver, Sparsity and robustness in modern statistical estimation, 2018.
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- Jack Dunn, Optimal Trees for Prediction and Prescription, 2018.
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- Daisy Ying Zhuo, New Algorithms in Machine Learning with Applications in Personalized Medicine, 2018.
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- Joel Tay, Integrated Robust and Adaptive Methods in the Heating Oil Industry, 2018.
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- Sebastien Martin, The Edge of Large-Scale Optimization in Transportation and Machine Learning, 2019 (best paper award among ORC students in 2018).
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- Yee Sian Ng, Advances in Data-Driven Models for Transportation, 2019.
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- Colin Pawlowski, Machine Learning for Problems with Missing and Uncertain Data with Applications to Personalized Medicine, 2019.
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- Chris McCord, Data-Driven Dynamic Optimization with Auxiliary Covariates, 2019.
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- Nishanth Mundru, Predictive and Prescriptive Methods in Operations Research and Machine Learning: An Optimization Approach, 2019.
Graduated Postdoctoral Associates
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- Eugene Perevalov, 2000-2001, now Associate Professor at Lehigh University.
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- Omid Nohadani, 2006-2009, now Assistant Professor at Purdue University.
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- Vineet Goyal, 2008-2010, now Assistant Professor at Columbia University.
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- Christopher Maes, 2010-2012, now at Gurobi, Inc.
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- Rahul Mazumder, 2012-2013, now Assistant Professor at Columbia University.
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- Matthew Fontana, 2013, now at Disney.
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- Allison O'Hair, 2013-2014, now Lecturer at Sloan School of Management, MIT.
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- Hoda Bidkhori, 2011-2015, now Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh.
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- Phebe Vayanos, 2013-2015, now Assistant Professor at USC.
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- Nathan Kallus, 2015-2016, now Assistant Professor at Cornell.
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- Shimrit Shtern, 2015-2017, Assistant Professor in The William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
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- Bart Van Parys, 2016-2018, now Assistant Professor at MIT.
Graduated Masters Students
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- Phillip Chervi, A computational approach to probabilistic routing problems, 1989.
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- Meng-Huai Chen, Optimal cash allocation in bank branches, 1991.
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- Michael Ricard, Algorithms for the 0-1 integer programming problem, 1991.
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- John Paschalidis, Bounds for multiclass queueing networks, 1992.
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- Angela Chiu, Stochastic inventory and distribution problems, 1993.
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- Elaine Chew, Multiperiod portfolio optimization: Feynmann diagrams and approximat dynamic programming, 1998.
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- Ed Wike, Supply chain management: an approximate dynamic programming approach, 1998.
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- Constantine Tsiligakis, Portfolio construction through mixed integer programming, 1999.
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- Mark Coumeri, Pricing in a competitive environment: a learning approach, 2000.
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- Zhang Yi, A discrete optimization approach to classification (MIT-Singapore alliance), 2001.
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- Constantine Caramanis, Bounds on linear partial differentail equations via semidefinite optimization, 2001.
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- Romy Shioda, Restaurant Revenue Management, June 2002.
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- Cheong Foong Soon, Hedging Strategy and Effect of Transaction Costs for American Options in an Incomplete Market, Singapore-MIT-Alliance, 2002.
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- Premal Shah, Optimal bounds for American options, 2006.
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- Su Hua, A robust optimization approach to optimization of queueing networks, 2006.
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- Yun Lu, A robust optimization approach to network equilibrium, 2007.
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- Clay Noyes, Optimizing the operations of the emergency department at the Beth Israel Hospital via simulation, 2008.
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- Si Chen, Robust Option Pricing - An epsilon arbitrage approach, 2009.
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- Kimberly Shenk, Patterns of heart attacks, 2010.
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- Jingting Zhou, Computational experiments for local search algorithms for binary and mixed integer optimization, 2010.
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- Van Vinh Nguyen, Fairness and optimality in trading, 2010.
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- Thai Dung Nguyen, Application of robust and inverse optimization in transportation, 2010.
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- Liwei He, Polynomial policies in supply chain networks, 2010.
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- David Culver, Robust Reconnaissance Asset Planning Under Uncertainty, 2013.
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- Emily Frost, Robust Planning for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles, 2013.
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- Stephen Relyea, An Analytics Approach to Designing Clinical Trials for Cancer, 2013.
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- Christina Epstein, An Analytics Approach to Hypertension Treatment, 2014.
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- Nicholas Jernigan, Multi-modal, Multi-period, Multi-commodity Transportation: Models and Algorithms, 2014.
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- Zachary Clayton Saunders, Multi-target Tracking via Mixed Integer Optimization, 2016.