Students

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Warm congratulations to my doctoral student Holly Wiberg who successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Holly!

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

Data, Models and Decisions in Large-Scale Stochastic Optimization Problems, 2016

Regression under a modern optimization lens, 2015

John Silberholz

Analytics for Improved Cancer Screening and Treatment, (winner of the William Pierskalla award in 2013 for best paper in Health care), 2015

Stochastic Analysis via Robust Optimization, (best paper award among ORC students in 2012, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2012), 2015

From data to decisions through new interfaces between optimization and statistics (best paper award among ORC students in 2013, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2013), 2015

Data-driven models for uncertainty and behavior (best paper award among ORC students in 2013, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2013), 2014

Personalized diabetes management, 2013 (winner of the William Pierskalla award in 2013 for best paper in Health care)

Chaithanya Bandi

Tractable stochastic analysis in high dimensions: a robust optimization approach, 2013 (best paper award among ORC students in 2012, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2012)

Matthew Fontana

Optimal routes for electric vehicles facing uncertainty, congestion and energy constraints, 2013

Integer optimization methods for machine learning, 2012

Michael Frankovich

Air traffic flow management at airports: A unified optimization approach, 2012

A tractable optimization framework for air traffic flow management addressing fairness, collaboration and stochasticity. 2012

Decomposition methods for large scale stochastic and robust optimization problems, 2011

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)

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