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Baptiste Rossi
August 8, 2025
Congratulations to my 105th PhD student, Baptiste Rossi, on the successful defense of his doctoral thesis, “Learning Nonlinear Dynamics: Methods and Applications.” I am also deeply grateful to my friend of 40 years, Yannis Kallinderis, for generously sharing his expertise on Navier–Stokes equations and turbulence, which greatly enriched the research.
Pericles Petrides
August 8, 2025
Congratulations to my 106th PhD student, Pericles Petrides, on the successful defense of his doctoral thesis, “Bridging the Gap: From Artificial Intelligence and Optimization to Action.” His research addressed decarbonization through the use of solar and wind energy for OCP, one of the largest fertilizer companies in the world, and introduced an exciting, explainable approach for holistic AI in medicine.
Thodoris Koukouvinos
August 4, 2025
Congratulations to Thodoris for successfully defending his excellent PhD thesis, "Advances in Nonconvex and Robust Optimization." Thodoris is continuing his career at Amazon. Warm wishes and good luck, Thodoris!
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Current
Students
Elijah Pivo
Expected completion
2025
George Margaritis
Expected completion
2026
Cindy Wang
Expected completion
2027
Jiayi Gu
Expected completion
2027
Lisa Everest
Expected completion
2027
Matthew Peroni
Expected completion
2027
Maura Suzanne Hegarty
Expected completion
2027
Vassilina Stoumpou
Expected completion
2027
Catherine Ning
Expected completion
2028
Karl Zhu
Expected completion
2028
Yubing Cui
Expected completion
2028
Carol Gao
Expected completion
2029
Dewang Kumar Agarwal
Expected completion
2029
Romain Puech
Expected completion
2029
Josephine Situ
Expected completion
2030
Julia Kim
Expected completion
2030
Lara Pontes
Expected completion
2030
Rohan Kumar
Expected completion
2030
Seehanah Tang
Expected completion
2030
Graduated PhD
Students
Adrian Becker
Decomposition methods for large scale stochastic and robust optimization problems, 2011
Alex Rikun
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)
Xu Sun
Advances in power systems: robustness, adaptability and fairness, 2011
Dan Iancu
Multi-stage adjustable robust optimization, with applications in inventory and revenue management, 2010 ( rst prize in student paper competition in Optimization Section of INFORMS, 2009)
Apostolos Fertis
A robust optimization approach to statistical estimation problems, 2009
Xuan Vinh Doan
Optimization under moment, robust, and data-driven models of uncertainty, 2009
David Czerwinski
Assessing quality of health care, 2008
Dmitriy Katz-Rogozhnikov
Algorithmic issues in queueing systems and combinatorial counting problems, 2008
Margret Bjarnadottir
A data driven approach to health care: applications using claims data, 2008
Premal Shah
Analysis of employee stock options and guaranteed withdrawal benefits for life, 2008 ( rst prize in student paper competition in Financial Services Section of INFORMS, 2007)
Kwong Meng Teo
Nonconvex robust optimization, 2007
Constantine Caramanis
Adaptive optimization, 2006
David Brown
Risk and robust optimization, 2006 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2005)
Michele Aghassi
Robust Optimization, game theory and variational inequalities, 2005
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Graduated Postdoctoral
Students
Michael Li
2022-2023
Bartolomeo Stellato
2018-2020
Bart Van Parys
2016-2018
Shimrit Shtern
2015-2018
John Silberholrz
2015-2017
Nathan Kallus
2015-2016
Hoda Bidkhori
2012-2015
Phebe Vayanos
2012-2015
Angelos Georghiou
2012-2013
Ebrahim Nasrabadi
2010-2013
Rahul Mazumder
2012-2013
Christopher Maes
2009-2011
Vineet Goyal
2008-2010
Omid Nohadani
2006-2009
Eugene Perevalov
1999-2001
Graduated Masters
Students
Demetrios C. Kriezis
Global Non-Convex Optimization with Integer Variables, 2025.
Galit Lukin
Prescriptive Methods for Adaptive Learning, 2020
Justin Graham
School Choice: A Discrete Optimization Approach, 2020
Samer Haidar
Supply chain network strategy for consumer medical device introduction, 2016
Zachary Sanders
Multi-target tracking via mixed integer optimization, 2016
Kevin Rossillion
Optimized Air Asset Scheduling Within a Joint Air Operations Center, 2015
Christina Epstein
An Analytics Approach to Hypertension Treatment, 2014
Jonathan Paynter
Optimized Border Interdiction, 2014
Nicholas Jernigan
Robust Multi-modal, Multi-period, Multi-commodity Transportation: Models and Algorithms, 2014
David Culver
Addressing the Fog of War in Reconnaissance Operations: A Robust Optimization Approach, 2013
Emily Frost
Dynamic planning for underwater unmanned vehicles, 2013
Stephen Relyea
An Analytics Approach to Designing Clinical Trials for Cancer”, 2013 (winner of the William Pierskalla award in 2013 for best paper in Health care)
Jingting Zhou
Computational experiments for local search algorithms for binary and mixed integer optimization, 2010
Kimberly Shenk
Patterns of heart attacks, 2010
Liwei He
Polynomial policies in supply chain networks, 2010
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