News: ORIE

ORIE Professor Katya Scheinberg and her co-authors have received the INFORMS Simulation Society’s Outstanding Publication Award for 2021. Read more

Researchers set out to model the probability of how often pairs of shoppers might overlap in a store – an approach that could be used to predict the transmission of COVID-19, and guide strategies to reduce its spread. Read more

ORIE Professor David Williamson and MIT’s Michel Goemans will receive the 2022 AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research for their paper "Improved Approximation Algorithms for Maximum Cut and Satisfiability Problems Using Semidefinite Programming," published in 1995 in the Journal of the ACM. Read more

The Fall 2021 issue of ORIE Magazine is now available online. Read more

When Cornell University’s ORIE Undergraduate Society (OUS) held a research night this fall, the student-run event met with an enthusiastic response. “We had a huge turnout,” said member Jody Zhu ’22. “After talking to some underclassmen, I realized they were feeling the same way I did two years ago when I first went looking for research opportunities—hungry for knowledge and wanting hands-on experience.” It is a need the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering is working hard to meet, says Associate Professor David Goldberg, the OUS faculty advisor. Over the past summer, he... Read more

ORIE major Ceren Konak ’22 is part of the winning team of the Anthem AI Substance Use Disorder and Whole Health of the Person Hackathon that took place over the course of four weeks in May and June of this year. Read more

Six faculty members have received the 2021 Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award – the highest research honor given by the Ivy League’s top-ranked engineering college. Read more

Mark Lewis, the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Engineering and Director of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University, is among the inaugural class of INFORMS Minority Issues Forum (MIF) Fellows. Read more

Two members of the ORIE faculty-Frans Schalekamp and David Shmoys-received teaching excellence awards for 2020-21 from Cornell’s College of Engineering. Read more

Christina Lee Yu, an assistant professor in Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, and Qiaomin Xie, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are the recipients of a 2021 JPMorgan Faculty Research Award. Read more