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Warm congratulations to my 109th PhD student, Eli Pivo, on the successful defense of his thesis, “A Holistic Approach for the Simulation, Evaluation, and Design of Organ Transplantation Policies in the U.S.” Eli has developed a unified simulator for organ transplantation outcomes across all major organs (kidney, liver, heart, lungs, and pancreas). The system runs in a matter of seconds and enables near real-time simulation and design of transplantation policies. Eli will continue his efforts at MIT, and I very much look forward to working together.

Congratulations to my 108th PhD student, Matthew Peroni, who successfully defended his thesis entitled "Adaptive Machine Learning." Matthew is continuing his career at IBM. I wish you the very best, Matthew!

George Margaritis

Congratulations to my 107th PhD student, George Margaritis, on the successful defense of his thesis, “Holistic AI for Medicine, Explainability and Optimization.” George will be continuing his career at Meta. Wishing you all the best, George!

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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

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)

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

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