Eli Olinick, Ph.D.

A headshot of Eli Olinick, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty. 

Eli Olinick, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management

Office Location: Caruth Hall 305

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Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
  • M.S., University of California, Berkeley
  • B.S. in Applied Mathematics at Brown University

Biography

Eli V. Olinick is an Associate Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Engineering Management at SMU’s Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering. He completed his B.S. in Applied Mathematics at Brown University and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California at Berkeley.

Professor Olinick’s research interests include applied optimization and network design problems. His research activities have been funded by multiple government and industry grants totaling over $2M, and he has published 28 refereed research articles in prominent journals in operations research and network engineering. He is a past president of the , the Dallas/Fort Worth INFORMS chapter, an Associate Editor of and , and a co-founder of the .

Honors & Awards

  • 2016 Fellow of the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute for academic year
  • 2004 Emerald Management Review's Citation of Excellence, recognizing “Hierarchical Cellular Network Design with Channel Allocation," as one of the top 50 management articles of 2004
  • 2003 SMU Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Award in Engineering Management, Information, and Systems

Research 

  • Combinatorial Optimization
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Classification/Clustering
  • Telecommunications
  • Transportation

Publications

  • Justin B. Brown and Eli V. Olinick - IEEE Systems Journal, 2023

  • Charles F. Mann, Monnie McGee, David W. Matula, and Eli V. Olinick
  • Journal of Data Science, published Online, 22 December 2022

    Yuanyuan Dong, Yulan Bai, Eli V. Olinick, and Andrew Junfang Yu
  • INFORMS Journal on Optimization, Vol. 4, No. 4, Fall 2022, pp. 347-445.
    Mark A. Husted, Eli V. Olinick, and Alexandra M. Newman
  • INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics Vol. 51, No. 2, March-April 2021, pp. 119-135
  • Xinyi Ding, Zohreh Raziei, Eric C. Larson, Eli V. Olinick, Paul Krueger, and Michael Hahsler
    EURASIP Journal on Information Security, Vol. 6, May 2020

 

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