News: ORIE

Brenda Dietrich

ORIE’s Dietrich receives INFORMS President’s Award

Brenda Dietrich Ph.D. ‘86, the Arthur and Helen Geoffrion Professor of Practice in Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, was awarded the INFORMS President’s Award during the INFORMS Annual Meeting. Read more

Who is a Scientist? book cover

ORIE’s Mark Lewis featured in new book, Who is a Scientist?

By: Olivia M. Hall

When Mark Lewis received an email from children’s book author Laura Gehl, asking him to participate in her latest project, he didn’t need much convincing. Now the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Engineering and ORIE director is among 14 scientists featured to a target audience of three to 10-year-olds in "Who Is a Scientist?". Read more

Professor Mark Lewis

ORIE’s Mark Lewis named an INFORMS Fellow

By: Pat Gillespie

INFORMS, the largest association for decision and data sciences, has announced that Mark Lewis, the Director of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell, is among the 12 outstanding members named as 2021 Fellows, one of the highest honors in the O.R. profession. Read more

Professor Andrea Lodi

ORIE’s Lodi named winner of prestigious Farkas Prize

By: Pat Gillespie

Andrea Lodi, the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor at Jacobs Technion—Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and a member of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering graduate field faculty at Cornell University, has been selected as the winner of the 2021 INFORMS Optimization Society Farkas Prize. Read more

Professor Shane Henderson

ORIE’s Henderson awarded NSF grant to study emergency medical services

By: Pat Gillespie

Shane Henderson, the Charles W. Lake, Jr. Professor in Productivity in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell, is using stochastic modeling and optimization to study new directions in emergency medical services, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation. Read more

Zoe Wang

CFEM alum Zoe Wang published in top quant journal

By: Pat Gillespie

Zoe Wang, who received her Master of Engineering degree in financial engineering in December 2020, published a paper in the summer 2021 issue of The Journal of Financial Data Science, arguably the top quant publication. Read more