Current Students
- Fabian Badilla
- Berkay Becu
- Sourabh Choudhary
- Dahye Han
- Nicole Redder
- Prachi Shah
- Jingye Xu
Past Students
- Yijiang Li
Thesis Title: Decomposition Algorithms for Certain Integer Problems over Networks.
Graduation Year: 2023.
First Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Argonne National Labs, USA.
- Shengding Sun
Thesis Title: Some global relaxation methods for quadratic and semidefinite programming.
Graduation Year: 2023.
First Position: Research associate in Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK.
- Xiaoyi Gu
Thesis Title: Topics in Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization.
Graduation Year: 2022.
First Position: Quantitative Researcher, Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG), USA.
- Yatharth Dubey
Thesis Title: Novel Analysis of the Branch-and-Bound Method for Integer Programming.
Graduation Year: 2022.
First Position: Assistant Professor, Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA (after spending one year at Carnegie Mellon University as a Postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. G. Cornuejols).
Current position: Applied Scientist, Amazon.
- Emma S. Johnson
Thesis Title: Solution Techniques for Large-Scale Optimization Problems on the Transmission Grid.
Graduation Year: 2021.
First Position: Sandia National Laboratories, USA.
- Guanyi Wang
Thesis Title: Approximation Algorithms for Mixed Integer Non-Linear Optimization Problems.
Graduation Year: 2021.
First Position: Assistant Professor, Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, National University of Singapore, Singapore (after spending one year at Polytechnique Montréal as a Postdoctoral researcher with Prof. A. Lodi).
- Digvijay Boob
Thesis Title: Convex and Structured Nonconvex Optimization for Modern Machine Learning: Complexity and Algorithms.
Graduation Year: 2020.
First Position: Assistant Professor, Engineering Management, Information, and Systems, Southern Methodist University, USA.
- Asteroide Santana
Thesis Title: Strong Convex Relaxations for Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs.
Graduation Year: 2019.
First Position: Operations Research Scientist, Opex Analytics, Inc., USA.
Current Position: Founder, Mip Wise (https://www.mipwise.com/).
- Andres Iroume
Thesis Title: Sparsity in Integer Programming.
Graduation Year: 2017.
First Position: Consultant, Operations Research at Revenue Analytics, Inc.
Current Position: Lead Data Scientist, Cox Automotive Inc., USA.
- Qianyi Wang
Thesis Title: Theory and Computation of Sparse Cutting-planes.
Graduation Year: 2016.
First Position: Data Scientist, Uber Technologies Inc.
Current Position: Data Scientist, Google, USA.
- Burak Kocuk
Thesis Title: Global Optimization Methods for Optimal Power Flow and Transmission Switching Problems in Electric Power Systems.
Graduation Year: 2016.
First Position: Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, Sabanci University, Turkey (after spending one year at Carnegie Mellon University as a Postdoctoral researcher).
Current Position: Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, Sabanci University, Turkey.
- Diego Moran
Thesis Title: Fundamental Properties of Convex Mixed-integer Programs.
Graduation Year: 2014.
First Position: Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA.
- Gustavo Angulo
Thesis Title: Integer Programming Approaches For Semicontinuous and Stochastic Optimization.
Graduation Year: 2014.
First Position: Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Chile. (After spending one year at CORE)
Current position: Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Chile.
- Feng Qiu
Thesis Title: Probabilistic Covering Problems.
Graduation Year: 2013.
First Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Argonne National Labs.
Current Position: Group Leader, Advanced Grid Modeling - Optimization and Analytics, Argonne National Labs, USA.
- Akshay Gupte
Thesis Title: Mixed Integer Biliear Programming With Applications To The Pooling Problem.
Graduation Year: 2012.
First Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University.
Current position: Lecturer, School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.