Blake Harris

About Me

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at the University of Michigan. I am advised by Professor Viswanath Nagarajan. My research area is approximation algorithms for stochastic optimization problems.

Education

• (2023- ) University of Michigan

  • PhD Industrial and Operations Engineering

• (2019-2023) Lee University

  • B.S. Mathematics 

Papers

• Optimal Sensitivity and Specificity Trade-off for Adaptive Testing. 

Denton, B., Harris, B., Nagarajan, V.

Working Paper

• Sequential Testing with Subadditive Costs

Harris, B., Tan, R., Nagarajan, V.

Accepted: Integer Programing and Combinatorial Optimization (IPOC) Conference

Under Revision: Mathematical Programming

Preprint: arXiv

• Minimum cost adaptive submodular cover.

Al-Thani, H., Cui, Y., Harris, B., & Nagarajan, V.

Mathematics of Operations Research. (2026)

Graduate Courses

• Approximation and Online Algorithms

• Dynamic Programming 

• Continuous Optimization Methods

• Integer Programing

• Introduction to Approximation Algorithms

• Linear Programing II

• Simulation Design Analysis

• Stochastic Processes II

• Stochastic Programming