Students

ALUMNI

Postdoc

• Xin Chen (2022-2023) MIT Energy Initiative. Large-scale power system planning, carbon-aware optimal power flow.

  • Placement: Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2023.

PHD

• Filipe Cabral (2019 - 2023) ISyE, GT. Infinite horizon optimization. Electrification of public transportation.

  • • Placement: American Airline, Operations Research and Advanced Analytics

• Amin Gholami (2017 - 2021) ISyE, GT. Power system resiliency, stability and control of power systems, machine learning for power systems.

  • • Fellowship for Excellence in Research in Energy and Sustainable Systems, ISyE, Georgia Tech, 2021

    • Placement: Senior Data Scientist, Walmart Global Tech, USA.

• Kaizhao Sun (2017 - 2022) ISyE, GT. Distributed optimization for nonconvex constrained programs. First-order methods for DC programming.

  • • Placement: Alibaba US. Damo Academy. Decision Intelligence Lab.

• Shixuan Zhang (2017 - 2022) ISyE, GT. Multistage stochastic mixed integer nonlinear optimization and multistage distributionally robust optimization. 

  • • INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize, Honorable Mention, 2021.

    • Placement: Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2023.

• Bai Cui (2016-2018) ECE, GT. Solvability, fixed points, and stability of complex nonlinear equations with applications to power flow equations. 

  • • Placement: Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University, 2023.

• Burak Kocuk (2013-2016) ISyE, GT. Nonconvex optimization in energy system operations: Optimal power flow and transmission switching. 

  • • Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Sabanci University, Turkey, 2017.

• Murat Yildirim (2013-2016) ISyE, GT. Sensor-driven condition-based monitoring and generation maintenance. 

  • • Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Wayne State University, USA, 2017.

• Jikai Zou (2013-2017) ISyE, GT. Algorithms for solving large-scale multistage stochastic integer programs. 

  • • Placement: Applied Scientist, Amazon, USA.

• Alvaro Lorca (2012-2016) ISyE, GT. Robust optimization in energy systems operation and renewable integration. 

  • • George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, 2017 

    • Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile, 2016.

Master Students

• Johannes Milz (2017 Spring) Convexity and quasi-convexity of monotone dynamical systems.

• Ramon Auad (2017 Spring) Neural networks and Arnold's theorem on the representation of functions of two variables.

Undergraduate Students

• Sean Kim (2020 Spring) ISyE, GT. Battery recycling supply chain.

• Kaizhao Sun (2016 Fall - 2017 Spring) ISyE, GT. Study convex optimization.

• Yunjin Sun (2014 Spring) ISyE, GT. Visualization tools for electric power networks.

• Jisu Park (2014 Spring) ISyE, GT. Visualization tools for electric power networks.

• Hongfan (Kevin) Chen (2013 - 2014) ISyE, GT. Decision-dependent uncertainty in robust optimization.