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
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
Mark E. Lewis, director of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, and Jamila Michener, associate professor of government, are the recipients of this year’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service through Diversity. Read more
Each year, Professor of Practice and Director of ORIE’s Master of Engineering program Kathryn Caggiano gets to stand in front of a group of graduating students and their families to announce that year’s M.Eng. award winners. While this year’s graduation ceremony was held virtually, Professor Caggiano was still able to honor the winning teams. The Silent Hoist and Crane Material Handling Prize was originally established in 1950 for the purpose of “stimulating the thinking of engineering students with aptitude or special interest in the Art and Science of Materials Handling.” “In the 70-plus... Read more
The Cornell Board of Trustees has elected Peter Frazier, Associate Professor with indefinite tenure in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, the inaugural Eleanor and Howard Morgan Professor, effective July 1, 2021. Frazier joins Mark Lewis, David Shmoys, Jim Dai, Shane Henderson, Adrian Lewis, James Renegar, David Ruppert, and Brenda Dietrich as chaired professors in ORIE. Lewis is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Engineering; Shmoys is the Laibe/Acheson Professor of Business Management and Leadership Studies; Dai is the Leon C. Welch Professor in Engineering; and... Read more
The Cornell University Board of Trustees has elected Mark E. Lewis, Director and Professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Engineering effective July 1, 2021, succeeding Paul Steen who passed away in September 2020. Professor Lewis received undergraduate degrees in mathematics and political science from Eckerd College in 1992, his master's degree in theoretical statistics from Florida State University in 1995, and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998. After receiving... Read more
A team of Cornell undergraduates led by rising senior Qihan (Jody) Zhu received first-place in the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) Operations Research Division 2021 Undergraduate Research Dissemination Award, announced last month at the annual IISE conference, which was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Zhu, who is studying both operations research and engineering and computer science, was working on updating ENGRI 1101: Engineering Applications of Operations Research course last summer under the direction of David B. Shmoys, the Laibe/Acheson Professor of... Read more
At its recent meetings, the Cornell University Board of Trustees elected three members of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering faculty to appointment with indefinite tenure, effective July 1, 2021. Siddhartha Banerjee, Yudong Chen and Jamol Pender were all elected associate professor with indefinite tenure. Banerjee joined the faculty at Cornell in July 2015 as an Assistant Professor. He received his Ph.D. in 2013 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, and was a postdoctoral researcher in the Social Algorithms... Read more
When he looks back at his final year at Cornell University, Anders Wikum will have plenty for which to be proud. Among those fond memories is being recognized as a 2021 Merrill Presidential Scholar. Wikum will earn his B.S. in operations research and engineering from Cornell this Sunday, May 30. Anders was recruited by ORIE’s David B. Shmoys, the Laibe/Acheson Professor of Business Management and Leadership Studies, to Cornell’s roster implementation team in summer 2020 and has played a major role in building the university’s fall 2020 and spring 2021 course rosters. “Anders is an incredible... Read more
