Students 

Ashwini Ravindran, Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering, TAMU (in progress).  

Miltiades Pardalos, Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering, TAMU (in progress).

Yehor Blokhin, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, May 2024. 

• Theory and Applications of Mixed-Integer Fractional Programming. 

• Co-chaired with Petar Momcilovic

• Postdoctoral Researcher at KTH, Sweden. 

Mykyta Makovenko, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, May 2023.

• Higher-Order Continuous Formulations For Discrete Optimization Problems. 

• Winner of IISE's Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award - 3rd Place (2024). 

• Quantitative Researcher Associate at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

S. Mohammad Hosseinian, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, May 2021.

• Optimization Methods for Cluster Analysis in Network-based Data Mining. 

• Winner of IISE's Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award - 2nd Place (2022). 

• Assistant Professor at NC State. 

Eugene Lykhovyd, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, August 2019. 

• Theory and Algorithms for Community Detection and Clustering in Networks. 

• Quantitative Research Vice President at JPMorgan Chase & Co. 

Oleksandra Yezerska, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, December 2016. 

• Low-Diameter Clusters in Network Analysis.

• Lead Data Scientist at Target. 

Samyukta Sethuraman, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, December 2015.

• On Fork-Join Queues and Maximum Ratio Cliques. 

• Co-chaired with Natarajan Gautam.

• Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon. 

Zeynep Ertem, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, August 2015. 

• Characterizing and Detecting Cohesive Subgroups with Applications to Social and Brain Networks.

• Assistant Professor at Binghampton University. 

Yiming Wang, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, August 2015.

• Connectivity Constraints in Network Analysis. 

• Lead Data Scientist at Analog Device. 

Chitra Balasubramaniam, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, August 2015. 

• Characterizing Structurally Cohesive Clusters in Networks: Theory and Algorithms. 

• Operations Research and Data Scientist at American Airlines. 

Austin Buchanan, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, August 2015. 

• Parameterized Approaches for Large-Scale Optimization Problems.  

• Winner of IISE's Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award - 2nd Place (2016). 

• Associate Professor, School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University. 

Je Sang Sung, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, December 2013. 

• Generalized Domination in Graphs with Applications in Wireless Networks. 

• Senior Data Scientist at Nordstrom. 

Shahram Shahinpour, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, August 2013. 

• Optimization-Based Network Analysis with Applications in Clustering and Data Mining.

• Principal Operations Research and Data Scientist at Sabre Airline Solutions. 

Anurag Verma, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, August 2012. 

• Network Based Approaches for Clustering and Location Decisions. 

• Co-chaired with Gary Gaukler.

• Co-founder at PriceLabs. 

Jeffrey Pattillo, Ph.D. in Mathematics, TAMU, December 2011.

• Mathematical Foundations and Algorithms for Clique Relaxations in Networks. 

• Co-chaired with Catherine Yang. 

• Director, Analytics & Principal Data Scientist at Loopback Analytics. 

Reza Seyedolshohadaie, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, August 2011. 

• Modeling Risks in Infrastructure Asset Management. 

• Co-chaired with Ivan Damnjanovic. 

• Founder at Milou AI. 

• Sera Kahruman-Anderoglu, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, December 2009. 

• Optimization in Geometric Graphs: Complexity and Approximation.

• Senior Data Scientist at PebblePost. 

• Oleksii Ursulenko, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, December 2009.  

• Exact Methods in Fractional Combinatorial Optimization.

• Software Engineer at Microsoft. 

• Svyatoslav Trukhanov, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, August 2008.  

• Novel Approaches for Solving Large-scale Optimization Problems on Graphs. 

• Principal SDE at Microsoft Corporation. 

• Balabhaskar Balasundaram, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, August 2007.

• Graph Theoretic Generalizations of Cliques: Optimization and Extensions. 

• Winner of IISE's Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award - 2nd Place (2008). 

• Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management at Oklahoma State University. 

Xu Wen, M.S. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, December 2018. 

• Algorithms for Computing Edge-Connected Subgraphs. 

• Jorge Ignacio Cisneros, M.S. in Energy Engineering, TAMU, August 2017.  

• Network-based Optimization Techniques for Wind Farm Location Decisions. 

• Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering, TAMU.

• Byungsoo Na, M.S. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, May 2006.

• Heurisic Approaches for No-depot k-Traveling Salesmen Problem with a Minmax Objective. 

• Ph.D. from Georgia Tech, 2010.

• SeungHo Lee, M.S. in Industrial Engineering, TAMU, May 2005.

• Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure for Traveling Salesman Problem. 

• Ph.D. from University of Arizona, 2009.