News: ORIE

CFEM Student Recognized by INFORMS 2024 Winter Simulation Conference

Students at Cornell's Financial Engineering program have many opportunities to engage in quantitative finance research and to expand their knowledge through collaborations with industry practitioners and academic experts. This emphasis on a hands-on approach emphasizes practical applications of theory and enables students to explore advanced topics that bridge complex models with real-world solutions. A case in point is the research of current student Daham Kim '24, who, in collaboration with CFEM Visiting Faculty and longtime collaborator Irene Aldridge, has received recognition from the... Read more

Mark Lewis elected 2025 INFORMS President-elect

By: Chris Dawson

INFORMS is the leading international association for professionals in operations research, analytics, management science, economics, behavioral science, statistics, artificial intelligence, data science, applied mathematics, and other relevant fields, with more than 12,000 members. Lewis is the second Cornell ORIE faculty member to serve as President-elect of INFORMS, as well as the first African-American to fill the role. Brenda Dietrich, the Geoffrion Family Professor of Practice, served as INFORMS President-elect in 2006 and as INFORMS President in 2007. Lewis has written that, as President... Read more

Eight early-career professors win NSF development awards

Researchers studying artificial intelligence training data and treatment of swelling linked to breast cancer are among the eight Cornell assistant professors who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Read more

Andrew Chin is named AllianceBernstein's Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

For the past 27 years, Andrew Chin '93 MBA '94 has worked at AllianceBernstein in a variety of executive positions. His most recent role prior to the announcement was AB's Head of Investment Solutions and Sciences. At Cornell University, his alma mater, he has taught Financial Engineering students since 2014. Professor Chin has worked with our students as a teacher, mentor, and project advisor. For more details, you can read the firm's official announcement. Read more

New model could help provide expectant mothers a clearer path to safe fish consumption

By: Mark Michaud, University of Rochester

Fish consumption during pregnancy is a complex scientific topic. On one hand, fish are rich in nutrients essential to brain development, including polyunsaturated fatty acids, selenium, iodine, and vitamin D. On the other, fish contain methyl mercury, a known neurotoxicant. This has led the US Food and Drug Administration to recommend that expectant mothers limit consumption, which inadvertently causes many women to forgo fish consumption during pregnancy altogether. Because fish consumption is an important route of methyl mercury exposure, efforts to understand the health risk posed by... Read more

M.Eng. student honored by Jamaican Prime Minister

By: Chris Dawson

Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan (CFEM) student Tashae Bowes recently received the Prime Minister’s National Youth Award for Excellence from Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness. Bowes is one of 21 Jamaicans under the age of 30 to be chosen for the honor this year. Bowes was awarded in the category of “Academics” and was nervous at the ceremony. “All of the nominees who made it to the short list were invited,” Bowes said. “But we did not know who the awardees would be until that moment when they announced our names.” The awards ceremony took place on April 20, 2024 on the lawns at... Read more

Merrill Scholars honor mentors who inspired them

At a luncheon on May 21, 42 Merrill Scholars celebrated the mentors who had the greatest influence on their early education and the Cornell faculty or staff members who contributed most significantly to their college experience. Read more

Three faculty members elected AAAS fellows

Cornell faculty members Ailong Ke, David Shmoys and Martin T. Wells have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. Read more