• • 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).

• • Daisuke Nakazato, Transient distributional results in queues with applications to queueing networks, 1990.

• • 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).

• • Peter Vranas, Ground holding strategies for a network of airports in air traffic control, 1992 (2nd prize in Transportation dissertation competition, 1992).

• • Michael Peterson, Transient congestion phenomena in air transportation, 1992.

• • Carolyn Haibt-Norton, Topics in discrete optimization, 1993.

• • Haiping Xu, Optimal policies for stochastic and dynamic vehicle routing problems, 1994.

• • Zhihang Chi, Dynamic and network effects in airline yield management, 1994.

• • Gina Mourtzinou, An axiomatic approach to queueing systems, 1995 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1996).

• • Jose Nino-Mora, Optimal resource allocation in a dynamic and stochastic environment: a mathematical programming approach, 1995.

• • Michael Ricard, Optimization of queueing networks: a linear control approach, 1995.

• • Joe Milner, A market approach to airtraffic control, 1995.

• • Andrew Luo, Continuous linear programming: Theory, algorithms and applications, 1995.

• • 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).

• • John Paschalidis, Large deviations in high speed communication networks, 1996 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1997).

• • 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).

• • David Gamarnik, Stability and performance of multiclass queueing networks, 1997.

• • Thalia Chryssikou, Multiperiod portfolio optimization in the presence of transaction costs, 1998.

• • Ioana Popescu, Applications of optimization in probability, finance and revenue management, 1999, (honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1999).

• • Jay Sethuraman, A stochastic control approach for multiclass queueing networks, 1999 (honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2000).

• • Leon Hsu, The bottleneck phenomenon in transportation systems, 1999.

• • Ramazan Demir, Approximate dynamic programming for integer programming problems, 2000.

• • Dessi Pachamanova, A robust optimization approach to finance, 2002.

• • Sanne de Boer, Pricing and revenue management in a netwrok environment, 2003 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2003).

• • Adam Mersereau, Adaptive and dynamic models in marketing, 2003.

• • Romy Shioda, An Integer programming approach to data mining, 2003.

• • Natasha Bushueva, Finance without price dynamics, 2003.

• • Jeff Hawkins, A Lagrangean decomposition method for dynamic optimization and its applications, 2003.

• • Karthik Natarajan, Probabilistic Combinatorial Optimization: Moments, Semidefinite Programming and Asymptotic Bounds, (Honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2003), Singapore-MIT-Alliance, 2004.

• • Melvyn Sim, Robust optimization, 2004 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2002 and 2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2004), 2004.

• • Aurelie Thiele, A robust optimization approach to supply chains and revenue management, (1st prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2003), 2004.

• • Michele Aghassi, Robust optimization, game theory and variational inequalities, 2005.

• • David Brown, Risk and robust optimization, 2006 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2005).

• • Constantine Caramanis, Adaptive optimization, 2006.

• • Kwong Meng Teo, Nonconvex robust Optimization, 2007.

• • David Czerwinski, Assessing quality of health care, 2008.

• • Premal Shah, Analysis of employee stock options and guaranteed withdrawal benefits for life ,2008.

• • Margret Bjarnadottir, A data driven approach to health care: applications using claims data, 2008.

• • Dmitriy Katz-Rogozhnikov, Algorithmic issues in queueing systems and combinatorial counting problems, 2008.

• • Apostolos Fertis, A robust optimization appraoch to stastical estimation problems, 2009.

• • Xuan Vinh Doan, Optimization under moment, robust, and data-driven models of uncertainty, 2009.

• • 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).

• • Adrian Becker, Decomposition methods for large scale stochastic and robust optimization problems, 2011.

• • Xu Sun, Advances in electric power systems: robustness, adaptability, and fairness, 2011 (2nd prize in George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, 2011).

• • Alex Rikun, Applications of robust optimization to queueing and inventory systems, 2011.

• • Nikolaos Trichakis, Fairness in operations: from theory to practice, 2011.

• • Allison An Chang, Integer optimization methods for machine learning, 2012.

• • Shubham Gupta, A tractable optimization framework for air traffic flow management addressing fairness, collaboration and stochasticity, 2012.

• • Michael Joseph Frankovich, Air traffic flow management at airports: A unified optimization approach, 2012.

• • Chaithanya Bandi, Tractable stochastic analysis in high dimensions via robust optimization, 2013.

• • Allison O'Hair, Personalized diabetes management, 2013.

• • Matthew Fontana, Optimal Routes for Electric Vehicles Facing Uncertainty, Congestion, and Energy Constraints, 2013.

• • Matthew Fontana, Optimal Routes for Electric Vehicles Facing Uncertainty, Congestion, and Energy Constraints, 2013.

• • Vishal Gupta, Data-Driven Models for Uncertainty and Behavior, 2014.

• • 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.

• • Angie King, Regression under a modern optimization lens, 2015.

• • John Silberholz, (winner of the William Pierskalla award in 2013 for best paper in Health care), Analytics for Improved Cancer Screening and Treatment, 2015.

• • Nataly Youssef (best paper award among ORC students in 2012, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2012) Stochastic Analysis via Robust Optimization, 2016.

• • Iain Dunning, Advances in Robust and Adaptive Optimization: Algorithms, Software, and Insights, 2016.

• • Velibor Misic, Data, Models and Decisions for Large-Scale Stochastic Optimization Problems, 2016.

• • Nikita Korolko, A Robust Optimization Approach to Online Problems, 2017.

• • Jerry Kung, An Analytics Approach to Problems in Health Care, 2017.

• • Alex Weinstein, From Data to Decisions in Healthcare: An Optimization Perspective, 2017.

• • Martin Copenhaver, Sparsity and robustness in modern statistical estimation, 2018.

• • Jack Dunn, Optimal Trees for Prediction and Prescription, 2018.

• • Daisy Ying Zhuo, New Algorithms in Machine Learning with Applications in Personalized Medicine, 2018.

• • Joel Tay, Integrated Robust and Adaptive Methods in the Heating Oil Industry, 2018.

• • Sebastien Martin, The Edge of Large-Scale Optimization in Transportation and Machine Learning, 2019 (best paper award among ORC students in 2018).

• • Yee Sian Ng, Advances in Data-Driven Models for Transportation, 2019.

• • Colin Pawlowski, Machine Learning for Problems with Missing and Uncertain Data with Applications to Personalized Medicine, 2019.

• • Chris McCord, Data-Driven Dynamic Optimization with Auxiliary Covariates, 2019.

• • Nishanth Mundru, Predictive and Prescriptive Methods in Operations Research and Machine Learning: An Optimization Approach, 2019.

Graduated Postdoctoral Associates

• • Eugene Perevalov, 2000-2001, now Associate Professor at Lehigh University.

• • Omid Nohadani, 2006-2009, now Assistant Professor at Purdue University.

• • Vineet Goyal, 2008-2010, now Assistant Professor at Columbia University.

• • Christopher Maes, 2010-2012, now at Gurobi, Inc.

• • Rahul Mazumder, 2012-2013, now Assistant Professor at Columbia University.

• • Matthew Fontana, 2013, now at Disney.

• • Allison O'Hair, 2013-2014, now Lecturer at Sloan School of Management, MIT.

• • Hoda Bidkhori, 2011-2015, now Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh.

• • Phebe Vayanos, 2013-2015, now Assistant Professor at USC.

• • Nathan Kallus, 2015-2016, now Assistant Professor at Cornell.

• • Shimrit Shtern, 2015-2017, Assistant Professor in The William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

• • Bart Van Parys, 2016-2018, now Assistant Professor at MIT.

Graduated Masters Students

• • Phillip Chervi, A computational approach to probabilistic routing problems, 1989.

• • Meng-Huai Chen, Optimal cash allocation in bank branches, 1991.

• • Michael Ricard, Algorithms for the 0-1 integer programming problem, 1991.

• • John Paschalidis, Bounds for multiclass queueing networks, 1992.

• • Angela Chiu, Stochastic inventory and distribution problems, 1993.

• • Elaine Chew, Multiperiod portfolio optimization: Feynmann diagrams and approximat dynamic programming, 1998.

• • Ed Wike, Supply chain management: an approximate dynamic programming approach, 1998.

• • Constantine Tsiligakis, Portfolio construction through mixed integer programming, 1999.

• • Mark Coumeri, Pricing in a competitive environment: a learning approach, 2000.

• • Zhang Yi, A discrete optimization approach to classification (MIT-Singapore alliance), 2001.

• • Constantine Caramanis, Bounds on linear partial differentail equations via semidefinite optimization, 2001.

• • Romy Shioda, Restaurant Revenue Management, June 2002.

• • Cheong Foong Soon, Hedging Strategy and Effect of Transaction Costs for American Options in an Incomplete Market, Singapore-MIT-Alliance, 2002.

• • Premal Shah, Optimal bounds for American options, 2006.

• • Su Hua, A robust optimization approach to optimization of queueing networks, 2006.

• • Yun Lu, A robust optimization approach to network equilibrium, 2007.

• • Clay Noyes, Optimizing the operations of the emergency department at the Beth Israel Hospital via simulation, 2008.

• • Si Chen, Robust Option Pricing - An epsilon arbitrage approach, 2009.

• • Kimberly Shenk, Patterns of heart attacks, 2010.

• • Jingting Zhou, Computational experiments for local search algorithms for binary and mixed integer optimization, 2010.

• • Van Vinh Nguyen, Fairness and optimality in trading, 2010.

• • Thai Dung Nguyen, Application of robust and inverse optimization in transportation, 2010.

• • Liwei He, Polynomial policies in supply chain networks, 2010.

• • David Culver, Robust Reconnaissance Asset Planning Under Uncertainty, 2013.

• • Emily Frost, Robust Planning for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles, 2013.

• • Stephen Relyea, An Analytics Approach to Designing Clinical Trials for Cancer, 2013.

• • Christina Epstein, An Analytics Approach to Hypertension Treatment, 2014.

• • Nicholas Jernigan, Multi-modal, Multi-period, Multi-commodity Transportation: Models and Algorithms, 2014.

• • Zachary Clayton Saunders, Multi-target Tracking via Mixed Integer Optimization, 2016.