Students

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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

Adaptive and dynamic models in marketing, 2003

A Lagrangean decomposition method for dynamic optimization and its applications, 2003

Natasha Busheva

Finance without price dynamics, 2003

An Integer programming approach to data mining, 2003

Pricing and revenue management in a network environment, 2003 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2003)

Dessi Pachamanova

A robust optimization approach to nance, 2002

Approximate dynamic programming for integer programming problems, 2000

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

The bottleneck phenomenon in transportation systems, 1999

Applications of optimization in probability, nance and revenue management, 1999, (honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1999)

Thalia Chryssikou

Multiperiod portfolio optimization in the presence of transaction costs, 1998

Stability and performance of multiclass queueing networks, 1997

Stochastic and dynamic models for air traffic flow management, 1997 (1st prize in Transportation Dissertation of INFORMS, 1997, 2nd prize in Dantzig award, 1997)

Constructing approximation algorithms via linear programming relaxations: primal dual and randomized rounding techniques, 1996 (honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1996)

Ioannis Paschalidis

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

Graduated Postdoctoral Students

Bartolomeo Stellato

John Silberholrz

Angelos Georghiou

Ebrahim Nasrabadi

Christopher Maes

Eugene Perevalov

Graduated Masters Students

Demetrios C. Kriezis

Global Non-Convex Optimization with Integer Variables, 2025.

Prescriptive Methods for Adaptive Learning, 2020

School Choice: A Discrete Optimization Approach, 2020

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

Addressing the Fog of War in Reconnaissance Operations: A Robust Optimization Approach, 2013

Dynamic planning for underwater unmanned vehicles, 2013

An Analytics Approach to Designing Clinical Trials for Cancer”, 2013 (winner of the William Pierskalla award in 2013 for best paper in Health care)

Computational experiments for local search algorithms for binary and mixed integer optimization, 2010

Patterns of heart attacks, 2010

Polynomial policies in supply chain networks, 2010