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Events

Students

  • Jiachun (Jason) Li
    Expected graduation June 2027
  • Haichen Hu
    Expected graduation June 2027
  • Ruicheng Ao
    Expected graduation June 2027
  • Rui Ai
    Expected graduation June 2027
  • Renfei Tan
    Expected graduation 2026
  • Hongyu Chen
    Expected graduation 2026
  • Feng Zhu
    Expected graduation June 2025
  • Junyi Sha
    Expected graduation 2025
  • Chonghuan Wang
    Expected graduation 2025
  • Prem Murali Talwai
    Expected graduation 2025
  • Sabrina Chen Wen Zhai
    Graduated August 2024

    Currently at Citadel.

  • 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

  • Hanwei Li
    Graduated May 2022

    Currently on the faculty at Chinese University of Science at Technology Business School, Hong Kong.

  • Hanzhang Qin
    Graduated May 2022

    Currently on the faculty at National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Industrial Systems Engineering & Management.

  • 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.

  • Louis Lester Chen
    graduated August 2019

    Currently on the faculty at Naval Post-graduate School’s Operations Research Department.

  • Michael Beeler
    graduated August 2019

    Currently serves as a Quantitative Researcher at TrailStone Group.

  • 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.”

  • Peter Yun Zhang
    graduated June 2019

    Currently on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.

  • Will Ma
    graduated July 2018

    Currently on the faculty at Columbia Graduate School of Business.

  • Zachary Owen
    graduated May 2018

    Currently serves as a Research Scientist at Verily Life Sciences.

  • Clark Pixton
    graduated May 2018

    Currently on the faculty at Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business.

  • 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.

  • Chonnikarn (Fern) Jira
    graduated August 2013

    Currently serves as Head of True Digital Academy.

  • William Schmidt
    graduated August 2013

    Currently on the faculty at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.

  • 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.

  • Cristian Figueroa
    graduated August 2013

    Currently serves as a Software Engineer at Airbnb.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Jennifer Ryan
    graduated June 1997

    Currently holding a faculty position at Purdue University, the IE Department.

  • Ana Muriel
    graduated July 1997

    Currently holding a faculty position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.

  • 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.