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

• Sequential Testing with Subadditive Costs

Blake Harris, Rayen Tan, Viswanath Nagarajan

Accepted: Integer Programing and Combinatorial Optimization (IPOC) Conference

Preprint: arXiv

• Minimum Cost Adaptive Submodular Cover

Hessa Al-Thani, Yubing Cui, Blake Harris, Viswanath Nagarajan

Under Revision: Math of Operations Research (MOR)

Preprint: arXiv

Graduate Courses

• Approximation Algorithms

• Dynamic Programming 

• Continuous Optimization Methods

• Integer Programing

• Introduction to Approximation Algorithms

• Linear Programing II

• Simulation

• Stochastic Processes II