Students
Hongyu Chen ;
Expected graduation 2026
Renfei Tan ;
Expected graduation 2026
Junyi Sha ;
Expected graduation 2025
Sabrina Zhai ;
Expected graduation 2024
Feng Zhu ;
expected graduation 2024
Prem Murali Talwai ;
Expected graduation 2024
Chonghuan Wang ;
Expected graduation 2024
Yunzong Xu ;
June 2023 ;
Accepted a faculty position at UIUC, Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering (ISE) with joint appointments in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Finalist in 2019 APS student paper competition for "Phase Transitions and Cyclic Phenomena in Bandits with Switching Constraints." Finalist in the 2020 George Nicholson Student Paper Competition for his paper "Bypassing the Monster: A Faster and Simpler Optimal Algorithm for Contextual Bandits under Realizability."
Xiao-Yue Gong ;
April 2023 ;
Currently on the faculty at CMU, Tepper School of Business.
Yiqun Hu ;
August 2022 ;
Currently working for Amazon
Hanzhang Qin ;
Graduated May 2022 ;
Currently on the faculty at National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Industrial Systems Engineering & Management.
Hanwei Li ;
Graduated May 2022 ;
Currently on the faculty at Chinese University of Science at Technology Business School, Hong Kong.
Jinglong Zhao ;
graduated June 2021 ;
Currently on the faculty at Boston University. Received the first-place award in the 2020 Revenue Management and Pricing Student Paper competition for his paper "Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments."
Ruihao Zhu ;
graduated June 2021 ;
Currently On the faculty at Cornell University School of Business. Finalist 2019 George Nicholson Student Paper Competition for “Hedging the Drift: Learning to Optimize under Non- Stationarity.”
Kirby Ledvina ;
graduated February 2021 ;
Currently serves as General Engineer at U.S. DOT Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.
Elaheh Fata ;
graduated August 2020 ;
Currently serves on faculty at Queen's University.
Rui Sun ;
graduated August 2020 ;
Currently a Research Scientist at Alibaba.
Li Wang ;
graduated June 2020 ;
Currently a Research Scientist at Lift.
Michael Beeler ;
graduated August 2019 ;
Currently serves as a Quantitative Researcher at TrailStone Group.
Louis Lester Chen ;
graduated August 2019 ;
Currently on the faculty at Naval Post-graduate School’s Operations Research Department.
Peter Yun Zhang ;
graduated June 2019 ;
Currently on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.
Milashini Nambiar ;
graduated June 2019 ;
Currently a Research Scientist at the Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency of Science, Technology and Research, Singapore. Winner, 2019 MSOM student paper competition for “Dynamic Learning and Pricing with Model Misspecification.”
Will Ma ;
graduated July 2018 ;
Currently on the faculty at Columbia Graduate School of Business.
Clark Pixton ;
graduated May 2018 ;
Currently on the faculty at Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business.
Zachary Owen ;
graduated May 2018 ;
Currently serves as a Research Scientist at Verily Life Sciences.
Xiao Fang ;
graduated November 2017 ;
Currently serves as a Research Scientist at Facebook App Monetization.
Yan Zhao ;
graduated August 2017 ;
Currently serves as a Research Scientist at Facebook.
Wang Chi Cheung ;
graduated August 2016 ;
Currently on the faculty at National University of Singapore.
He Wang ;
graduated May 2016 ;
Currently on the faculty at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech.
Arzum Akkas ;
graduated August 2015 ;
Currently on the Faculty at Boston University Questrom School of Business.
Kris Johnson ;
graduated June 2015 ;
Currently on the Faculty at Harvard Business School.
Cristian Figueroa ;
graduated August 2013 ;
Currently serves as a Software Engineer at Airbnb.
Yehua Wei ;
graduated August 2013 ;
Currently on the faculty at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Second Place in the 2011 Nicholson Student Paper Competition.
William Schmidt ;
graduated August 2013 ;
Currently on the faculty at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Chonnikarn (Fern) Jira ;
graduated August 2013 ;
Currently serves as Head of True Digital Academy.
Miao Song ;
graduated August 2010 ;
Currently on the faculty of the University of Hong Kong.
Ye Lu ;
graduated 2009 ;
Currently on the faculty at the Department of Management Sciences, College of Business, City University of Hong Kong. Finalist in the 2009 Nicolson Student Paper Competition.
Hariharan Lakshmanan ;
graduated September 2008 ;
Currently at Oracle.
Hamed Mamani ;
graduated August 2008 ;
Currently on the Faculty at the University of Washington, Foster School of Business. Finalist in the 2006 Nicholson Student Paper Competition. The paper “Supply Chain Coordination and Influenza Vaccination,” co-authored with Stephen E. Chick and David Simchi-Levi was awarded the Pierskalla Best Paper Award, 2006.
Chiwon Kim ;
graduated June 2008 ;
Currently at McKinsey.
Pamela Pen-Erh Pei ;
graduated April 2008 ;
Currently a Senior Research Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Finalist in the 2007 MSOM Student Paper Competition.
Stephen Shum ;
graduated August 2007 ;
Currently on the Faculty at the Business School, Chinese University of Science at Technology, Hong Kong. Awarded an honorable mention in the 2006 Nicholson Student Paper Competition.
Pranava Goundan ;
graduated August 2007 (co-advisor with Andreas S Schulz) ;
Currently working for Analytics Solutions, Boston, MA. Finalist in the 2007 Nicholson Student Paper Competition.
Tieming Liu ;
graduated August 2005 ;
Currently on the faculty at Oklahoma State University.
Louis Laungkesorn ;
graduated August 2004 (co-advisor with Seyed Iravani) ;
Currently working at the University of Pittsburgh.
Victor Martinez de Albeniz ;
graduated June 2004 ;
Currently on the faculty at IESE University of Navarro. Awarded an honorable mention in the 2003 Nicholson Student Paper Competition.
Xin Chen ;
graduated May 2003 ;
Currently on the faculty at UIUC. Awarded an honorable mention in the 2002 Nicholson Student Paper Competition as well as a Second Prize in the 2002 MSOM Student Paper Competition.
Yao Zhao ;
graduated July 2002 ;
On the faculty at Rutgers University, School of Management.
Julie L. Swann ;
graduated September 2001 ;
Received the Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2002 given by the Council of Logistics Management. Currently on the faculty at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech.
Cheng-feng Mabel Chou ;
graduated September 2001 ;
Received the Dissertation-Year Graham Fellowship for 2000-2001 awarded by the McCormick School of Engineering. Currently on the faculty at National University of Singapore, Department of Decision Sciences.
Hui Liu ;
graduated June 2001 ;
Received the Dissertation-Year Henderson Fellowship for 2000-2001 awarded by the McCormick School of Engineering. Currently working for Verizon Laboratories.
Deniz Ceglar ;
graduated May 2001 ;
Received the Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award from the Society of Logistics Engineers. Currently an associate with the management consultants Booz Allen & Hamilton
Max Zhu-Jun Shen ;
graduated August 2000 ;
Currently holding a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research.
Ebru Bish ;
graduated July 1999 ;
Currently holding a faculty position at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Ann Bixby ;
graduated September 1998 ;
Co-advisor with Collette Coullard. Currently working for Aspen Technology, Inc.
Phil Kaminsky ;
graduated August 1997 ;
Received an honorable mention in the 1996 MSOM Student Paper Competition. Currently holding a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research.
Ana Muriel ;
graduated July 1997 ;
Currently holding a faculty position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Jennifer Ryan ;
graduated June 1997 ;
Currently holding a faculty position at Purdue University, the IE Department.
Lap Mui Ann Cha ;
graduated August 1995 ;
Currently holding a faculty position at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). Received an honorable mention in the 1994 ORSA Nicholson Student Paper Competition and the 1995 INFORMS Nicholson Student Paper Competition.
Qun Deng ;
graduated November 1994 ;
Currently working for GAT in the area of Object-Oriented Design, Optimization and Fixed Income Modeling.
Julien Bramel ;
graduated May 1992 ;
Currently serves as VP, Risk Management CDCIXIS Financial Guaranty. Recipient of the 1992 ORSA Nicholson Prize and the Transportation Science Section Prize for the best Ph.D. Thesis in 1992.
Chung-Lun Li ;
graduated May 1990 ;
Currently holding a faculty position at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.