News: ORIE

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

A new vaccine distribution model expands the concept of vaccine coverage to include vaccinated person-days, which prioritize both the number of people vaccinated and the speed of getting shots into arms. Read more

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

Kathryn Caggiano, professor of practice and director of M.Eng. studies in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, has been appointed to a three-year term. Read more

ORIE Director Mark Lewis was honored with the William H. Kadel Alumni Medal for Outstanding Career Achievement from Eckerd College. Read more

Data science, molecular mechanisms, unconventional computing for optimization and machine learning, wave interaction with engineered materials, electrocatalysis, and compound semiconductor devices are among some of the research themes that helped six faculty members earn Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Awards. Read more

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

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

“While I had no doubts this would be a successful forum, I could never imagine the level of positive response. Comments from attendees surpassed any expectation that our panelists or our sponsor envisioned,” Victoria Averbukh, Director of CFEM, said. The conference brought together senior academics, Wall Street practitioners, finance entrepreneurs, and some non-finance people to discuss the future of quant finance. There were 15 wide-ranging panel discussions and a keynote address delivered by retired US Navy Admiral Scott Sanders on “The Geopolitical Risk of Tomorrow.” The sheer number and... Read more

COVID-19 made clear the need for improved models. Organizations at all levels of society, from small businesses and schools to cities and countries, have been making decisions throughout the pandemic without a clear idea of exactly what factors they should be considering. Cornell’s successful COVID-19 response was shaped largely by models created and updated by members of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) under the leadership of Peter Frazier, the Eleanor and Howard Morgan Professor, with major contributions by David Shmoys, the Laibe/Acheson Professor of... Read more