Post-Doctoral Fellow
- Susan Hunter. Simulation Optimization. 2011-2013. First position, Purdue University.
Ph.D. Students
- Jeff
Ohlmann. Theory and
Applications of Compressed Annealing.
University of Michigan 2003. Current position University of
Iowa, Henry B. Tippie College of Business.
Winner of the INFORMS Dantzig Dissertation Award, 2004. Co-advised by Jim Bean.
- Soumyadip
Ghosh. Dependence in
Stochastic Simulation Models. Here you can find some Software for implementing the NORTA method. Cornell University
2004. Current position IBM Research, Mathematical Sciences.
- Julius Atlason. Simulation
Optimization for Call Center Staffing. University
of Michigan 2004.
Current position co-founder of THOR Institute. Co-advised by Marina Epelman.
- Sam Steckley. Estimating the
Density of a Conditional Expectation. Cornell University 2005. First position: Mitre Corp.
- Millie Chu. Robust Intensity
Modulated Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning. Cornell University 2006.
A presentation at
the 2005 INFORMS Practice Conference by Zinchenko and Henderson
containing a description of our work (a powerpoint show). First position T-Mobile, Seattle.
- Sujin Kim. Adaptive Control Variates in Monte Carlo Simulation
Cornell University 2006.
Current position: Assistant professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at National University of Singapore.
- Sam
Ehrlichman. Adaptive Stochastic Simulation for Structured Problems. 2008. Cornell University. First Position: Jane Street Capital.
- Mateo
Restrepo. Computational Methods for Static Allocation and Real-Time Redeployment of Ambulances. Cornell University. 2008. Co-advised by Huseyin Topaloglu.
- Spyros Schismenos.A Probabilistic Analysis of Low-Rank Approximations in Optimization Problems with Ellipsoidal Constraints. 2009. Cornell
University. Co-advised by Adrian Lewis. First position: JP Morgan Chase, London UK.
- Matt Maxwell. Ambulance redeployment.Approximate Dynamic Programming Policies and Performance Bounds for Ambulance Redeployment. 2011. Cornell University. Co-advised by Huseyin Topaloglu. First position: SAS. See this article for an accessible overview.
- Rolf Waeber. Probabilistic Bisection Search for Stochastic Root Finding. 2013. Cornell University. Co-advised by Peter I. Frazier. First position: Cantor Fitzgerald
- Brad Westgate. Vehicle travel time distribution estimation and map-matching via Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. 2013. Primary advisor: Dawn Woodard. Cornell University.
- Eric Ni Cao. Efficient ranking and selection in parallel computing environments. 2015. Cornell University. First position: Morgan Stanley
- Chaoxu Tong. Some resource
allocation problems. Co-advised by David Shmoys. 2016. Cornell
University. First position: Uber
- Kenneth Chong. Models for
decision-making and performance evaluation in emergency medical
service systems. Co-advised
by Mark Lewis. 2016. Cornell University. First position: Google
- Pat Steele. Vehicle routing problems. Co-advised by David
Shmoys. 2016. Cornell University. First position: Wayfair
- Nanjing Jian. Exploring and exploiting structure in large scale simulation optimization. 2017. Cornell University. First position: Amazon
- Stephen Pallone. Adaptive Bayes-optimal methods for stochastic search with applications to preference learning. 2017. Co-advised by Peter Frazier. Cornell University. First position: Uber
- David Eckman. Reconsidering ranking and selection guarantees. 2019. Cornell University. Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University starting July 1, 2021 after post-doc at Northwestern University.
- Sijia Ma.
Sequential ranking and selection procedures and sample complexity. Cornell University. First position: Google Beijing. Github repositories for his code:
- Woo-Hyung Cho. Scheduling in healthcare. 2022. Co-advised with David Shmoys. Cornell University.
- Alyf Janmohamed. Electric bike sharing. Co-advised with David Shmoys. In progress, Cornell University.
- Hemeng (Maggie) Li. Modeling volunteer programs in emergency medical services. In progress, Cornell University.
- Matthew Ford. Simulation optimization. In progress, Cornell University.
- Natthawut (Boom) Boonsiriphatthanajaroen. Constrained simulation optimization. In progress, Cornell University.
- Qingyuan (Amber) Chen. TBD. Primary advisor Dave Goldberg. In progress, Cornell University.
Exploratory Projects with Ph.D. Students
- George Yu. Optimization modeling for epidemic control. 2023. Cornell University.
- Zhengyi (Jenny) Zhou. Statistical Modeling of Call Arrival Locations for Emergency Medical Services. 2015. Cornell University. Primary advisor: David Matteson.
- Anjie (Eric) Guo. Simulation optimization. 2013. Cornell University.
- Haici (Chris) Tan. Surgical scheduling. 2021. Primary advisor Itai Gurvich. Cornell University.