Students

Learn more about Professor Bertsimas' current and past students.

Student News

Benjamin Boucher

Congratulations to Benjamin who successfully defended his doctoral thesis today! Benjamin extended robust optimization models in very novel ways. He is continuing his career at Meta.

Congratulations to Zhen for successfully defending his thesis on the interplay of optimization and machine learning. Zhen is continuing his career at Google. Congratulations, Zhen!

Angelos Koulouras

The barrage of graduations continues. Angelos Koulouras defended his PhD thesis today. He has done excellent work in adaptive optimization in electricity markets, as well as in healthcare—though the latter was not part of his thesis. Angelos will be continuing his career at Amazon. Warm congratulations, Angelos!

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Thodoris Koukouvinos

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George Margaritis

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Pericles Petrides

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Maura Suzanne Hegarty

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Vassilina Stoumpou

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Dewang Kumar Agarwal

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Graduated PhD Students

Data, Models and Decisions in Large-Scale Stochastic Optimization Problems, 2016

Regression under a modern optimization lens, 2015

John Silberholz

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

Stochastic Analysis via Robust Optimization, (best paper award among ORC students in 2012, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2012), 2015

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

Data-driven models for uncertainty and behavior (best paper award among ORC students in 2013, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2013), 2014

Personalized diabetes management, 2013 (winner of the William Pierskalla award in 2013 for best paper in Health care)

Chaithanya Bandi

Tractable stochastic analysis in high dimensions: a robust optimization approach, 2013 (best paper award among ORC students in 2012, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2012)

Matthew Fontana

Optimal routes for electric vehicles facing uncertainty, congestion and energy constraints, 2013

Integer optimization methods for machine learning, 2012

Michael Frankovich

Air traffic flow management at airports: A unified optimization approach, 2012

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

Decomposition methods for large scale stochastic and robust optimization problems, 2011

Applications of robust optimization to queueing and inventory systems, 2011

Nikolaos Trichakis

Fairness in operations: from theory to practice, 2011 (winner of the second prize of George Dantzig Best thesis award, 2011)

Graduated Postdoctoral Students

Bartolomeo Stellato

John Silberholrz

Angelos Georghiou

Ebrahim Nasrabadi

Christopher Maes

Eugene Perevalov

Graduated Masters Students

Stochastic inventory and distribution problems, 1993

Ioannis Paschalidis

Bounds for multiclass queueing networks, 1992

Optimal cash allocation in bank branches, 1991

Algorithms for the 0-1 integer programming problem, 1991

A computational approach to probabilistic routing problems, 1989