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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

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