10th Anniversary Celebration
About ORFE
Welcome to the Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering, part of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. ORFE is engineering for business, commerce, and industry.
Our students are innovators and entrepreneurs. They acquire the skills to become leaders in finance, information technology, management consulting, operations planning and insurance. Our researchers develop tools used to make better decisions, improve performance of complex systems, and manage resources efficiently.
The Department was formed in 1999 and traces a distinguished history to activities at Princeton between 1930 and 1960.
Ramon van Handel receives the 2009 SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize
Ramon van Handel, a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer with the department's Research Training Group (RTG) in Stochastic Analysis & Applications, and an Assistant Professor in ORFE from September 1, 2009, will be awarded the 2009 SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize at the SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT09), to be held July 6-8, jointly with the SIAM Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. This will be the first award of the SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize, which was established in 2007.
Rene Carmona, Paul Wythes '55 Professor of Engineering and Finance selected as Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
The SIAM Fellowship honors members who have made outstanding contributions to the fields served by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. http://www.siam.org/.
Jianqing Fan, Frederick l. Moore Class of 1918 Professor in Finance recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship Award
Jianqing Fan, Frederick l. Moore Class of 1918 Professor in Finance, is a 2009 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship Award. His project tile is "Feature selection and statistical learning in ultrahigh dimensional space". http://orfe.princeton.edu/~jqfan/
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment. This year, six Princeton faculty members are receiving this award out of 180 total. Among these one is from Engineering, one from science and four from social science and humanities.