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100th PhD Student

Today we celebrate the graduation of my 100th doctoral student with some of my current and prior PhD students. If somebody told me that after 37 years as an MIT faculty I would have graduated 100 PhD students, I would have found it unbelievable!

Warm congratulations to my 100th doctoral student, Alex Paskov, who successfully defended his thesis today. Alex has made significant progress in using AI and optimization on solving clustering, optimal trees, wordle, and poker!

Warm congratulations to my 99th doctoral student, Yu Ma, who has defended her doctoral thesis today. Yu has done exceptional work in AI and healthcare and is continuing her career as an assistant professor at the business school of University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Current Students

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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

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