Two ORFE students, Senior Eli Krahn and Junior Caroline Noonan, were named Academic All-Ivy for Fall 2020. This honor was bestowed on one student-athlete from each of the seven Ivy League sponsored sports. Senior Eli Krahn runs for the University’s Men’s cross-...
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February 16, 2021
ORFE Professor Boris Hanin is organizing an online summer school for graduate students interested in the theory of deep learning. Support for the Deep Learning Theory Summer School at Princeton comes from the DataX program . The deadline for applications is March 31, 2021.
January 26, 2021
Professor Robert C. Hampshire *07 was appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology in the Biden administration. Robert, an associate professor at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, received his Ph.D. from ORFE in 2007 and was advised by ORFE Professor William Massey.
In 2019...
January 21, 2021
ORFE Professor Bartolomeo Stellato and co-authors have been awarded the 2020 Best Paper Award from the journal Mathematical Programming Computation. The paper introduced OSQP, an industry-grade open-source software for solving quadratic optimization problems which features a novel algorithm that is impervious to bad-quality data and suitable for embedded and real-time optimization. With more...
December 1, 2020
ORFE graduate students Laura Leal and Jiacheng Zhang received the SEAS Award for Excellence. Laura, advised by Professor Rene Carmona, works in financial market microstructure. Her recent research projects are on: “optimal execution using deep neural networks; explainability and interpretability of neural network models; high-frequency econometrics applied to trader’s inventories; and price avalanche.” Jiacheng, advised by Professor Mykhaylo Shkolnikov, focuses his research...
November 4, 2020
The American Mathematical Society has named Professor Rene Carmona a Fellow in the 2021 Class of Fellows of the AMS “for contributions to probability theory and its applications to mathematical physics, image processing and financial mathematics.”
“The Fellows of the AMS designation recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and...
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