2000-2005 Prizes and Awards received by ORIE Doctoral Students:

Fabian Chudak (Ph.D. Aug. ’98; Advisor: D. Shmoys) was selected as a Mathematical Programming Society (MPS) 2000 Tucker Prize Finalist for his Ph.D. thesis "Approximation Algorithms for the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem."

Kevin Wayne (Ph.D. June ’99; Advisor: E. Tardos) was awarded the 2000 INFORMS Optimization Prize for Young Researchers for his paper, "A Polynomial Combinatorial Algorithm for Generalized Minimum Cost Flow."

Metin Cakanyildirim (Ph.D. Aug. ’00; Advisor: R. Roundy)
won the 2001-2002 IIE Transactions Best Paper Award in Scheduling and Logistics for “SeDFAM: Semiconductor Demand Forecast Accuracy Model”; he also received a 2005 Wickham Skinner Early Career Award, presented by the Production and Operations Management Society.

Woonghee Tim Huh (Ph.D. Aug. ’03; Advisor: R. Roundy)
won second place in the 2002 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Student Paper Competition for “A Continuous-Time Strategic Capacity Planning Model,” as well as first place in the 2002 Student Paper Competition (for the same paper) sponsored by the Canadian Operational Research Society.

Emre Alper Yildirim (Ph.D. Aug. ’01; Advisor: M. J. Todd)
has an NSF Faculty Early Career Development award, 2003-2008.

Amar Sapra (Ph.D. Aug. ’04; Advisor: P. Jackson)
won first place in the 2003 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Student Paper Competition for “The Martingale Evolution of Price Forecasts in a Market for Supply Chain Capacity.”

Lisa Fleischer (Ph.D. Aug. ’97; Advisor: E. Tardos)
won the 2003 D.R. Fulkerson Prize (for outstanding papers in the areas of discrete mathematics) for “A Combinatorial Strongly Polynomial Algorithm for Minimizing Submodular Functions.”

Chek Beng Chua (Ph.D. May ’03; Advisor: J. Renegar)
won the 2003 SIAM Student Paper Prize for “A Primal Dual Second Order Cone Approximations Algorithm for Symmetrical Cone Programming.”

Retsef Levi (Ph.D. Aug. ’05; Advisors: R. Roundy and D. Shmoys)
won first place in the 2004 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Student Paper Competition for “Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Inventory Control Models.”

Bharath Rangarajan (Ph.D., Aug. ’04; Advisor: M. J. Todd)
was one of the first winners of the Young Researchers Competition at the International Conference on Continuous Optimization at Troy, NY, 2004, sponsored by the Mathematical Programming Society.

Raphael Hauser (Ph.D. Jan. ’00; Advisor: M.J. Todd)
won the 2005 SIAM Optimization Prize presented at the SIAM Optimization Conference in Stockholm in May and was also awarded the 2000 SIAM Student Paper Prize for his paper "Target Directions for Primal-Dual Interior-Point Methods for Self-Scaled Conic Prpgramming."