News: ORIE

With over 20 years of experience trading equity-linked and convertible securities at multiple major institutions, including D.E. Shaw and Credit Suisse, Ms. Marshak shared her deep knowledge of the markets and her profession. Ms. Marshak started her career as a trading assistant at D.E. Shaw, developed her product and trading expertise as a junior trader at KBC Financial Products, and eventually moved on to lead her desk at Credit Suisse and Piper Sandler. She provided candid insights in overcoming industry challenges where women are underrepresented. The group discussed work-life balance, the... Read more

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

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

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

Christina Lee Yu, an assistant professor in Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, has received the Intel® Rising Star Faculty Award (RSA). Read more

First-year ORIE Ph.D. student Yuheng Wang has been awarded the Professor Robert E. Bechhofer Fellowship, ORIE Director Mark E. Lewis announced today. Read more

Manxi Wu has joined the ORIE faculty as a visiting assistant professor and will join the ORIE faculty in July 2022. Read more

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

ORIE Professor of Practice Oktay Gunluk has received a grant of more than $450,000 from the U.S. Department of Defense/Office of Naval Research to study integer programming models for interpretable binary classification. Read more

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