Cornell Engineering climbs to #12 in U.S. News grad rankings
Cornell Engineering ranks #12 among engineering colleges in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings. Read more
Cornell Engineering ranks #12 among engineering colleges in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings. Read more
ORIE Assistant Professor Jamol Pender is featured in an article by Marketplace on how we will manage queues once the pandemic is over. Read more
The 2020 INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize is awarded to Adrian S. Lewis, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell, “for his fundamental and sustained contributions to continuous optimization, operations research, and, more broadly, computational science. His work has pushed the frontiers of nonlinear optimization and convex analysis and developed path-breaking theory that has led to much subsequent work.” "This prize represents a pinnacle of my career," Lewis said. "It is a wonderful honor from my scientific... Read more
Assistant Professor Madeleine Udell has won a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships support early-career faculty members’ original research and education related to science, technology, mathematics and economics. Read more
Their innovative solution involves heat potentials, demonstrating the power of mathematical physics in financial applications. While the collaborators have only just started working with each other, both have longstanding ties to the CFEM community. Currently a Visiting Professor at CFEM, as well as the Global Head of Quantitative Research and Development at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Marcos López de Prado has been teaching the class "Advances in Financial Machine Learning" for several years. He has also served as the advisor for graduate student teams in their capstone projects. Both... Read more
As the spring semester begins, a team of engineering students and faculty has finished tweaking the master schedule, using lessons they learned last fall during their heroic effort to help Cornell safely hold in-person classes. Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) relaxed COVID-19 vaccine restrictions and the vaccine supply is growing, yet some areas are begging for more vaccines to meet demand. Read more
The annual Cornell Day of Data, this year a two-day virtual event, Jan. 27-28, brings together professors, researchers and students from across the university to share techniques, tools and insights in working with data. Read more
In her opening remarks, CFEM Director Victoria Averbukh encouraged students to be true to themselves and remember to make time for their other talents to flourish alongside their financial careers. ORIE Director Mark Lewis stressed the new responsibilities that come with being Cornell alumni. As Director of M.Eng. Studies Kathryn Caggiano noted to the new graduates, "Pay it forward with your time, with your experience, and with your empathy." In what has become a true CFEM graduation tradition, Senior Research Associate Sasha Stoikov offered a special musical performance to remind students of... Read more
With a resume that includes Microsoft, Amazon and the shipping powerhouse Convoy, Seattle’s Greg Akselrod '09 is hardwired for data. And the numbers around the support for the COVID-19 vaccine troubled him. Read more