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Index of UROP Supervisors in the Operations Research Center

 

 

Prof. Arnold I. Barnett, E53-379, x3-2670, abarnett "at" mit.edu
Public policy, health, and safety, measurement of risk and risk perceptions; applied probability and statistics.

Prof. Cynthia Barnhart, 1-235, x3-3815, cbarnhar "at" mit.edu
Transportation, logistics, intermodalisms, large-scale network optimization, mathematical programming.

Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas, E53-363, x3-4223, dbertsim "at" mit.edu
Continuous and discrete optimization, stochastic and dynamic optimization, computational finance, e-commerce and data mining.

Prof. Gabriel Bitran, E53-355, x3-2652, gbitran "at" mit.edu
Operations management, process optimization, manufacturing systems design, production planning, management of service operations.

Prof. Olivier L. De Weck, 33-410, x3-0255, deweck "at" mit.edu
Multidisciplinary design optimization, system architecture, space communication constellations, space telescope and interferometer design, multiobjective optimization, automotive platform design.

Prof. Eric Feron, 32-D724, x3-1991, feron "at" mit.edu
Optimization theory and applications to control, signal processing, identification and air transportation systems, design and flight of autonomous land, air, and space systems, engineering of strategic and tactical command and control systems.

Prof. Joseph Ferreira Jr., 9-532, x3-7410, jf "at" mit.edu
Computer-based modeling and spatial analysis for transportation and land-use planning and urban information systems (especially computing-intensive projects involving maps, images, Geographic Information Systems, and geoprocessing services); urban information systems; risk assessment and risk management involving public safety and insurance.

Prof. Charles H. Fine, E53-393, x3-3632, charley "at" mit.edu
Strategic sourcing for manufacturing and service industries; supply chain design, especially in the automotive and telecommunications industries.

Prof. Robert M. Freund, E53-357, x3-8997, rfreund "at" mit.edu
Mathematical programming, linear and nonlinear optimization theory and applications, applied modeling and analysis.

Dr. Stanley B. Gershwin, 35-210 , x3-2149, gershwin "at" mit.edu
Modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems, effects of random machine failures and other disruptions, real-time scheduling, simulation. 

Prof. Stephen Graves, E40-347, x3-6602, sgraves "at" mit.edu
Operations management, manufacturing systems, production planning and scheduling, inventory management.

Prof. Patrick Jaillet, 1-290, x2-3379, jaillet "at" mit.edu
On-line problems; real-time and dynamic optimization; network design and optimization; probabilistic combinatorial optimization; financial engineering.

Prof. David Karger, NE43-321, 8-6167, karger "at" lcs.mit.edu
Information retrieval and digital libraries; analysis of algorithms, especially for graphs and optimization problems; applications of randomization; parallel algorithms.

Prof. Gordon M. Kaufman, E53-375, x3-2651, gkaufman "at" mit.edu
Statistical decision theory, probability assessment, oil and gas discovery process, energy studies, stochastic modeling of software bugs.

Prof. Richard Larson, (1-170, x3-3604)  rclarson "at" mit.edu
Applying advanced technologies to education in both the "brick-and-mortar" and virtual campus. Probability methods applied to services industries.

Prof. Steven R. Lerman, 9-317/E40-373A, x3-4277, lerman "at" mit.edu  
Educational uses of computing, large scale distributed computing systems, parallel algorithms, transportation demand modeling.

Prof. Andrew Lo, E52-432, x3-0920, alo "at" mit.edu
Applying recent advances in probabilistic and statistical methods to rigorous theoretical and empirical investigations of patterns in stock market prices.

Prof. Thomas L. Magnanti, 1-206, x3-6604, magnanti "at" mit.edu
Optimization of large-scale systems, network and combinational optimization, transportation planning, telecommunications.

Prof. James B. Orlin, E40-147, x3-6606, jorlin "at" mit.edu
Network optimization, mathematical programming, and heuristic search.

Prof. Asuman E. Ozdaglar, 32-D630, x4-0058, asuman "at" mit.edu
Optimization and convex analysis with emphasis on core analytical issues in Lagrange multiplier theory, duality and minimax/saddle point theory; network optimization; game theory and equilibrium problems.

Prof. Georgia Perakis, E53-359, 3-8277, georgiap "at" mit.edu
Applications of dynamic and continuous optimization in revenue management, dynamic pricing, internet auctions, supply chain and transportation problems.

Prof. Donald Rosenfield, E40-319, x3-1064, donrose "at" mit.edu
Logistics, manufacturing strategy, supply chain management, production planning and inventory control.

Prof. Stephen Ross,  E52-450, x8-8371, sross "at" mit.edu
Economics of uncertainty, corporate finance, decision theory and financial econometrics.

Prof. Andreas Schulz, E53-361, x8-7340, schulz "at" mit.edu
Approximation and online algorithms, combinatorial and integer optimization, algorithmic game theory, scheduling theory and algorithms.

Prof. Yosef Sheffi, E40-275, x3-5316, sheffi "at" mit.edu
Transportation systems analysis, emphasis on transportation network modeling with application to carrier operations and logistics management.

Prof. David Simchi-Levi, 1-171, x3-6160, dslevi "at" mit.edu
Transportation and logistics systems analysis; e-commerce and supply chain management; revenue and yield management; optimization based decision support systems; operations research; telecommunications systems.

Prof. Roy E. Welsch, E53-383, x3-6601, rwelsch "at" mit.edu
Statistical models, regression diagnostics, graphics, quality control, experimental design, Taguchi methods, statistical computing.

Prof. Nigel Wilson, 1-238, x3-5046, nhmw "at" mit.edu
Public transportation, transport system design, new transportation systems.

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