Ilya O. Ryzhov

I am Professor and Chair of the Department of Decision, Operations, and Information Technologies at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. I received my Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2011. I am a co-author (with W.B. Powell) of the book Optimal Learning, available on Amazon.

I work on decision-making under uncertainty, encompassing topics in optimization, probability, and statistics. I have a strong program of theoretical research, but have also worked on applications with the shared themes of public interest and social good, spanning problems in humanitarian logistics, medical decision-making, biomanufacturing, and fair hiring. My work has been, and is currently, funded by the NSF.

Please click here for a recent CV (updated June 2024).

Some of my coauthors on recent publications:

• Ye Chen, Statistical Sciences and Operations Research, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Sanmay Das, Computer Science, George Mason University

• Mahyar Eftekhar, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

• Michael Fu, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

• Jialin Li, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

• Yuan Liao, Economics, Rutgers University

• Nikola Marković, Civil Engineering, University of Utah

• Martijn Mes, Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems, University of Twente

• Warren Powell, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University

• Wei Xie, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University

• Kunpeng Zhang, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

• Lei Zhao, Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University

• Yinchu Zhu, Economics, Brandeis University