Professor Bartolomeo Stellato has won two awards from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. The first award funded by the James Mi *91 Fund in Data Science is the SEAS Innovation Award. This award is received for his proposal entitled “Learning Task-specific Optimizers for Real-time Autonomous Systems.” The proposal will focus on data…
ORFE Professor Emma Hubert received the 2022 Paul Caseau prize for her Ph.D. thesis titled “Interactions and incitatives: between contract theory and mean-field games.” This award from the French Academy of Technology and EDF (Electricite de France) is “awarded annually to young…
ORFE Professors Boris Hanin and Ludovic Tangpi have each received a National Science Foundation CAREER grant which is the “most prestigious award from the NSF in support of early-career faculty who have potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization”…
ORFE graduate students Gokce Dayanikli and Cemil Dibek received the SEAS Award for Excellence. Gokce, advised by Professor Rene Carmona, works on understanding emergent behavior in groups with a large number of agents and the effect of optimal incentives on this behavior by using game theory and machine learning tools. Cemil, who…
This year, ORFE Edwin S. Wilsey Professor William A. Massey ‘77 was a keynote speaker at the flagship conference for the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting. His talk was titled “A Dynamic…
To accurately capture Earth on a flat surface “while keeping visual distortions at a minimum” requires writing a complicated Python code. ORFE Professor Robert Vanderbei wrote the code to create a re-imagined world map. His collaboration with Princeton University Professor Richard Gott III and David Goldberg, professor at Drexel University, …
Jianqing Fan, the Frederick L. Moore Professor in Finance, was the 2021 Le Cam Lecturer, one of the highest honors given by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics to a mathematical statistician once every three years. He spoke at the annual Joint Statistical…
Former ORFE graduate student Georgina Hall *18, supervised by Professor Amir Ali Ahmadi, was a finalist for the 2021 Tucker Prize. This selective award from the Mathematical Optimization Society is given every three years to the best Ph.D. thesis in optimization worldwide. Georgina…
ORFE Chair, Ronnie Sircar, has been named the Eugene Higgins Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering. Sircar, who is currently chair of the ORFE department, joined the Princeton faculty in 2000. His research interests include financial mathematics, stochastic volatility models, portfolio optimization, energy markets and…
On Monday, May 24th The Great ORFE Class of 2021 virtually celebrated Class Day. Via Zoom 18 students were awarded prizes from eight prize categories. A list of winners and their thesis titles can be found on the Undergraduate Awards page.
At our (virtual) Graduate Class Day on May, 25th we recognized 12 students receiving their ORFE Ph.D. The students' thesis advisers led the congratulations. Details on their impressive first job placements, advisors and thesis titles can be found on the ORFE graduate page.
For the second year in a row an ORFE senior is named Princeton University’s valedictorian. Taishi Nakase, Princeton University’s Class of 2021 valedictorian, whose senior thesis advisor is ORFE Professor…
Fall of 2021 will usher in the largest number of first year PhD students in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering’s 22-year history. The 21-22 academic year will welcome 27 incoming PhD students and 1 MSE student. The yield on admits was 60%. International students are from Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India,…
Professor Bartolomeo Stellato has been awarded a grant from the 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education for his proposal “Optimization: Decision-making in the age of computers” to revamp the core ORFE undergraduate class ORF 307. The award letter from Pres. Eisgruber recognizes that commitment to teaching is critical to…
Professor Ludovic Tangpi received a E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr. /Emerson Electric Co. Faculty Advancement SEAS Junior Faculty award, which was established to recognize the most talented junior faculty members in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Professor Tangpi intends to use the research funds from this award to support ongoing…
ORFE graduate, Robert Hampshire *07, will be the Chief Science Officer for the Department of Transportation, a role that has not been filled in over 40 years. He will become the main advisor on…
Our Princeton Preview for the Class of 2025 online event addresses "Why ORFE?", how to navigate the program and what concentrators can expect. The full video is now available for viewing for interested students who could not attend.
ORFE graduate student Zhi Jiang (Tony) Ye received the Graduate School Teaching Award for his work in the Spring and Fall semesters of 2020 as Head Instructional Assistant for ORF 245, Fundamentals of Statistics. This award honors graduate students who “have made a significant and exceptional contribution to undergraduate teaching.”
ORFE graduate student Laura Leal, advised by Professor Rene Carmona, placed first in a competition organized by The Institut Louis Bachelier for her thesis titled “Optimal execution for high-frequency trading.” The object of the competition, open to PhD students and recent graduates, was for competitors to present their thesis in 3 minutes in a…
This Fall ORFE will welcome Emma Hubert and Liza Rebrova as our newest faculty members. Professor Emma Hubert received her Ph.D in Applied Mathematics from Universite Gustave Eiffel in 2020. Professor Liza Rebrova received her Ph.D in Mathematics in 2018 from the University of Michigan.
Professor Hubert’s research is motivated by…