News: ORIE

Samorodnitsky wins NSF grant

Samorodnitsky has been on the ORIE faculty at Cornell since 1988 and says his research interests lie in probability theory and its various applications. This three-year, $200,000 grant from the NSF will support Samorodnitsky’s goal of learning how to forecast future extreme observations and to assess their impact. In his proposal Samorodnitsky wrote, “Do tropical storms become more deadly as global temperatures rise? Does extreme violence become more widespread as the economic conditions worsen? Questions of this type are studied by climate scientists and social scientists respectively, but... Read more

Patie wins NSF grant

The three-year, $300,000 award is in line with the Division of Mathematical Sciences’ mission “to support research in mathematics and statistics, training through research involvement of the next generation of mathematical scientists, conferences and workshops, and a portfolio of national mathematical sciences research institutes.” Patie has been at Cornell since 2013 and his research resides at the crossroads of probability theory and functional analysis, with a pronounced emphasis on real-world applications across diverse areas of applied mathematics. In his proposal to the NSF, Patie... Read more

Yu receives AFOSR grant

The three-year, $450,000 award will fund Yu’s research into how best to predict outcomes of an intervention from limited data when there may be complex dependences in the outcomes arising from network interference. Yu, an assistant professor in Cornell's School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, explains that existing standard data analyses are able to understand and describe data, but are unable to answer “what if” and “why” questions about predicted outcomes of possible interventions. These existing data analyses can leave policy-makers guessing at the effectiveness of... Read more

Narahari Umanath Prabhu, professor emeritus, dies at 98

Known to most as Uma, Prabhu was born in Calicut (now Kozhikode), India, in 1924 and earned his B.A. in mathematics at Loyola College in Madras, India, an M.A. in statistics from the University of Bombay and an M.S. in mathematics from the University of Manchester in England – all at the top of his class. Prabhu joined the ORIE faculty in 1965 at the age of 41. He had been living in Perth, Australia, and teaching at the University of Western Australia, when a book he wrote, “Stochastic Processes: Basic Theory and Its Applications,” found its way to Frank Spitzer, the late Cornell mathematics... Read more

Multiple ORIE faculty win prizes at 2022 INFORMS

ORIE Director Mark Lewis, who has been with the School for 17 years, was pleased by the recognition of so many ORIE faculty members. INFORMS is the leading international association for operations research and analytics professionals, so to be honored at their annual meeting means a lot. In an email to ORIE faculty Lewis said, “It was an award-winning year for ORIE at INFORMS. We once again ‘punched above our weight.’ Way to go to all! You represent us well!” Here is a complete list of ORIE-affiliated faculty members honored by INFORMS this year: Katya Scheinberg was inducted as an INFORMS... Read more