santanu.dey@isye.gatech.edu

Office: Groseclose, Rm 443
765 Ferst Dr, Atlanta GA 30332

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

Current Students


  1. Xiangxin An
  2. Fabian Badilla
  3. Berkay Becu
  4. Sourabh Choudhary
  5. Dahye Han
  6. Nicole Redder
  7. Prachi Shah
  8. Jingye Xu

Past Students


  1. Yijiang Li
    Thesis Title: Decomposition Algorithms for Certain Integer Problems over Networks.
    Graduation Year: 2023.
    First Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Argonne National Labs, USA.
  2. 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.
  3. Xiaoyi Gu
    Thesis Title: Topics in Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization.
    Graduation Year: 2022.
    First Position: Quantitative Researcher, Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG), USA.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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).
  7. 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.
  8. 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/).
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.