From wind power to electric cars, engineer Powell helps industry chart energy resources.

On February 24th, Professor Erhan Çınlar received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Engineering Council in recognition of excellence in teaching. Lifetime Achievement Awards are presented once a professor has received over five Excellence in Teaching Awards from the E-Council.

Prof. Philippe Rigollet has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, effective July, 1, 2011. The title of his project is "Large Scale Stochastic Optimization and Statistics". Prof. Rigollet will study a unified treatment of a number of large scale problems emerging from statistical learning and from optimization under…

According to Science Watch, a weekly web publication by Thomson Reuters, Princeton University is a "high-impact" research institution in the areas of probability and statistics. Princeton claims the third spot among institutions ranked by the number of citations per paper. The comparison data was drawn from U.S.-based institutions, specifically…

Hugo Simao and Warren Powell won the 2010 Best Paper Prize from the Society for Transportation Science and Logistics at the Informs annual meeting this fall.  The paper, entitled "An Approximate Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Large-Scale Fleet Management: A Case Application" uses…

At Commencement ceremonies Tuesday, June 1st, Professor Erhan Çınlar received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. A committee of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students and academic administrators selected the winners from nominations by current students, faculty colleagues and alumni.

ORFE Graduate Student, Jelena Bradic and Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer, Xu Han are recipients of the IMS Laha Award.  Each year IMS selects only ten people to receive this award which enables the awardee to travel to present a paper…

Ke Yu successfully defended his PhD dissertation, May 21, 2010.   His thesis is titled, "High Frequency Data Based Asset Allocation and Dynamic Covariance Matrix Modeling".  Ke received his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the Univ. of Oxford and earned his MSc in Financial Math from Stanford.  His research…

Congratulations to Yang Fang who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, May 6, 2010.   His thesis is titled, High-dimensional Statistical Learning and Nonparametric Modeling.
 
Yang received his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics in 2006 from University of Science and  Technology of China.  His research…

The department would like to congratulate the most recent recipients of the E-Council Excellence in Teaching Award.  The award ceremony took place on May 6, 2010 in the Friend Center Convocation Room.  The recipients included:

Jelena Bradic has been selected by the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA) to receive an APGA Teaching Award for her work as an assistant in instruction for ORF 245.  The award recognizes and honors graduate students who have made a significant contribution to undergraduate teaching. The award will be presented to her at APGA's…

Friday, April 23, 2010, ORFE celebrated it's 10th anniversary.  The department welcomed back many undergraduate and graduate alumni for an eventful day of activities including panel discussions on the financial crisis and energy and climate change.

Katie Hsih '10 who is pursuing a major in ORFE and certificates in global health and health policy and engineering biology, has been awarded a 2010 fellowship from ReachOut 56-81 to support a year-long public serivce project after graduation…

The SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics launched January 21, 2010.
 
ORFE Professors René Carmona and Ronnie Sircar are Editors-in-Chief of this latest journal that brings together theoretical developments in financial mathematics as well as breakthroughs in the computational challenges they encompass. It provides a common…

The "OR/MS Today" newsletter (for Informs) included an article about operations research at UPS.  The article touches on the work that UPS is funding at CASTLE Lab, where we are building an optimization module that is part of a load planning tool (plans how shipments are routed through the…

Professor Alain Kornhauser gave the keynote address at the 34th Trenton Computer Festival and Hamfest, the longest continuously running personal computer show in the world. He spoke on "The Car of Tomorrow", a truly autonomous highway vehicle that can drive itself.  Professor Kornhauser is the lead faculty advisor to the PAVE team …

"84 students in ORF 405: Regression & Applied Time Series are trying to do away with paper entirely. … professor Rene Carmona, who teaches ORF 405, has eliminated the use of paper in his course by assigning problem sets on the computer and having students submit them through Blackboard. Graders give feedback on the homework by writing…

Diana Negoescu '09 and Peter Frazier *09 have received honorable mention in the first 'Doing Good with Good OR' competition sponsored by Informs. The competition recognizes students or student groups whose projects are likely to have a significant impact on society through the application of operations research methods. Their project addressed…

Hugo Simao and Warren Powell were recipients of the 2009 Wagner Prize awarded by Informs for applications which make a methodological contribution.  Their work addressed the problem of modeling the fleet operations of Schneider National, one of the largest truckload motor carriers in the…

"In recent months, [Prof. René] Carmona, the Paul Wythes '55 Professor of Engineering and Finance, has leveraged his expertise in the mathematical modeling of financial markets and other complex systems to develop models to guide cap-and-trade policies intended to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

'It's a very politically charged issue,'…