Faculty Research Areas

Sila Çetinkaya
Department Chair and Professor

• Stochastic dynamic optimization
• Applied probability and stochastic modeling
• Decision making under uncertainty
• Inventory theory
• Supply chain operations and management
• Supply Chain contract design
• Transportation logistics with a focus on shipment consolidation
• Healthcare operations

Miju Ahn
Assistant Professor

• Computational optimization
• Machine/statistical learning
• Operations research
• Big data science

Richard Barr
Associate Professor

• Network and integer-programming optimization algorithms and models for large-scale industry applications
• Computational data analytics including optimization-based machine learning and data fusion high-performance classical and quantum computing methods for optimization
• Empirical benchmarking and analysis of algorithms via computational experiments

Digvijay Boob
Assistant Professor

• Nonlinear programming
• Design and analysis of algorithms
• Machine learning theory
• Data-driven (stochastic) optimization
• First-order methods for optimization and min-max games

• Large scale optimization
• Stochastic optimization
• Power systems operations and market design
• Health care operations

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Data Mining
• Data Science

Eojin Han
Assistant Professor

• Optimization under Uncertainty
• (Distributionally) Robust Optimization
• Dynamic Optimization, with application to supply chain management, healthcare and revenue management

• Heuristics
• Integer Programming
• Linear Programming
• Network Flows
• Classification and Clustering
• Telecommunications
• Transportation
• Social Network Analysis
• Sports Analytics

• Advanced analytics
• Decision-making under high uncertainty
• Robust optimization
• Risk Management
• Portfolio management
• Pricing and revenue management
• Design of healthcare financing systems

Halit Üster
Professor

• Transportation and logistics
• Network design
• Decomposition methods for optimization
• Stochastic optimization
• Applied and computational optimization with applications in freight transportation, emergency response, bioenergy supply networks, closed loop supply chains, and telecommunications