santanu.dey@isye.gatech.edu

Office: Groseclose, Rm 442
765 Ferst Dr, Atlanta GA 30332

Phone:+1 (404) 385-7483
Fax:+1 (404) 894-2301

Santanu S. Dey is Anderson-Interface professor and director of doctoral recruiting and admissions in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Dey holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.

Dr. Dey's research interests are in the area of non convex optimization, and in particular mixed integer linear and nonlinear programming. His research is partly motivated by applications of non convex optimization arising in areas such as electrical power engineering, process engineering, civil engineering, logistics, and statistics. Dr. Dey has served as the vice chair for Integer Programming for INFORMS Optimization Society (2011-2013) and has served on the program committees of Mixed Integer Programming Workshop 2013 and Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization 2017, 2020. He currently serves on the editorial board of Computational Optimization and Applications, is an associate editor for Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming A, and SIAM Journal on Optimization. He has been as associate editor for INFORMS Journal on Computing and an area editor for Mathematical Programming C, and has served on the editorial board of MOS-SIAM book series on Optimization.

Research Interests

Mixed Integer Linear Programming, Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming, Global Optimization, Energy Systems, Optimization in Engineering

Honors & Awards

  • INFORMS optimization society Balas prize 2020.
  • INFORMS ENRE Best Publication - Energy 2019.
  • A. Russell Chandler III Professorship from ISyE 2019-2022.
  • Diversity Fellow at Georgia Tech 2017.
  • Fouts Family Junior Professorship from ISyE 2013-2016.
  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation 2012.
  • Finalist in INFORMS junior faculty interest group paper competition 2010, 2011, 2012.
  • Class of 1969 Teaching Fellow, Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), Georgia Institute of Technology 2010.
  • IBM Faculty Award 2009.
  • First place, Nicholson student paper competition, INFORMS 2007.