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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

Advances in power systems: robustness, adaptability and fairness, 2011

Multi-stage adjustable robust optimization, with applications in inventory and revenue management, 2010 ( rst prize in student paper competition in Optimization Section of INFORMS, 2009)

Apostolos Fertis

A robust optimization approach to statistical estimation problems, 2009

Optimization under moment, robust, and data-driven models of uncertainty, 2009

David Czerwinski

Assessing quality of health care, 2008

Dmitriy Katz-Rogozhnikov

Algorithmic issues in queueing systems and combinatorial counting problems, 2008

Margret Bjarnadottir

A data driven approach to health care: applications using claims data, 2008

Analysis of employee stock options and guaranteed withdrawal benefits for life, 2008 ( rst prize in student paper competition in Financial Services Section of INFORMS, 2007)

Nonconvex robust optimization, 2007

Constantine Caramanis

Adaptive optimization, 2006

Risk and robust optimization, 2006 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2005)

Michele Aghassi

Robust Optimization, game theory and variational inequalities, 2005

A robust optimization approach to supply chains and revenue management, (first prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2003), 2004

Karthik Natarajan

Probabilistic Combinatorial Optimization: Moments, Semide nite Programming and Asymptotic Bounds, (Honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2003), Singapore-MIT-Alliance, 2004

Robust optimization, 2004 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2002 and 2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2004), 2004

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