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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

Continuous linear programming: Theory, algorithms and applications, 1995

Gina Mourtzinou

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

A market approach to air traffic control, 1995

Optimal resource allocation in a dynamic and stochastic environment: a mathematical programming approach, 1995

Optimization of queueing networks: a linear control approach, 1995

Optimal policies for stochastic and dynamic vehicle routing problems, 1994

Dynamic and network e ects in airline yield management, 1994

Carolyn Haibt-Norton

Topics in discrete optimization, 1993

Michael Peterson

Transient congestion phenomena in air transportation, 1992

The Multi-Airport Ground-Holding Problem in Air Traffic Control, 1992 (2nd prize in Transportation dissertation competition, 1992)

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)

Daisuke Nakazato

Transient distributional results in queues with applications to queueing networks, 1990

Probabilistic and worst case analysis of LP relaxations for a class of connectivity problems, 1990 (Tucker prize of Mathematical Programming Society, 1991, 2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1991)

Graduated Postdoctoral Students

Bartolomeo Stellato

John Silberholrz

Angelos Georghiou

Ebrahim Nasrabadi

Christopher Maes

Eugene Perevalov

Graduated Masters Students

Thai Dung Nguyen

Application of robust and inverse optimization in transportation, 2010

Van Vinh Nguyen

Fairness and optimality in trading, 2010

Robust option pricing - an epsilon arbitrage approach, 2009

Optimizing the operations of the emergency department at the Beth Israel Hospital via simulation, 2008

Robust optimization applications, 2008

A robust optimization approach to network equilibrium, 2007

Optimal bounds for American options, 2006

A robust optimization approach to optimization of queueing networks, 2006

Cheong Foong Soon

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

Constantine Caramanis

Bounds on linear partial differential equations via semidefinite optimization, 2001

A discrete optimization approach to classification, Singapore-MIT-Alliance, 2001

Pricing in a competitive environment: a learning approach, 2000

Constantine Tsiligakis

Portfolio construction through mixed integer programming, 1999

Supply chain management: an approximate dynamic programming approach, 1998

Multiperiod portfolio optimization: Feynmann diagrams and approximate dynamic programming, 1998