Xiaowei Guo. Research Area: Network Optimization and its Application to Public Policy Problems. Expected Graduation: August 2026.
Farhatul Janan. Research Area: Disrupting Illicit Drug Trafficking Networks through Novel Interventions. Expected Graduation: August 2026.
Daniel Silva, co-advised with Yongjia Song. Research Area: Novel Bi-level Programming Problems for Disrupting Sex Trafficking Networks. Expected Graduation: August 2025.
On February 10, 2020, Yeming Shen passed away tragically from complications of the flu. I would encourage you to read his research obituary that I wrote shortly after his passing. He was in his third year of pursuing his PhD under my supervision. He would have formed his committee and defended his dissertation proposal by June 2020. There is absolutely no doubt that he would have been successful in his defending his PhD in 2021 and I nominated him for a posthumous PhD to honor his research contributions.
Lucky Cho. Essays on Integer Programming Approaches to Analyze Equilibrium Solutions in Games. PhD defended August 2023. Currently at Purdue IE as a Lecturer.
Mustafa Can Camur. Large-Scale Optimization Models with Applications in Biological and Emergency Response Networks. PhD defended June 2021. Currently at GE Research.
Dan Kosmas, co-advised with John E. Mitchell (Math, RPI). Integer Optimization for the Understanding and Disruption of Illicit Networks, PhD defended June 2022. Currently a postdoc at Northeastern.
Ni Ni. Modeling the Impact of Large-Scale Disruptions on Supply Chains and Their Recovery, PhD defended May 2019. Currently at Proctor & Gamble.
Huy Nguyen, co-advised with John Mitchell. Optimizing the Recovery of Supply Networks, PhD defended June 2018. Currently at Deccan International.
N. Orkun Baycik. Interdicting Layered Networks: A Reformulation and its Applications, PhD defended March 2018. Currently at Shenandoah University as an Assistant Professor.
Hongtan Sun. On Approximation Algorithms and the Price of Decentralization for Problems in Network Restoration. PhD defended July 2017. Currently at IBM. Recipient of the 2018 Del and Ruth Karger Dissertation Prize from the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department.
Emily Heath, co-advised with John Mitchell. Optimization Approaches to Problems in Network Mitigation and Restoration. PhD in Mathematical Sciences defended June 2016. Currently at MITRE.
Sarah G. Nurre. Integrated Network Design and Scheduling Problems: Optimization Algorithms and Applications. PhD defended on June 7, 2013. Recipient of a Sandia-RPI Excellence in Engineering Fellowship (2011-2013) and the 2014 Del and Ruth Karger Dissertation Prize from the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department. Currently at the University of Arkansas as an Assistant Professor.
Jiaming Qiu. Dynamic Resource Location Problems: New Applications, Models and Algorithms. PhD defended on July 12, 2012. Currently at Bloomberg LP.
Ajay Malaviya. Multi-Period Network Interdiction Problems with Applications to City-Level Drug Enforcement. PhD defended on November 19, 2010. Currently at Boston Analytics.