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FACULTY RESEARCH / CONCENTRATIONS

The Stewart School offers great breadth and depth in terms of faculty interest areas and concentrations which, in turn, produces substantial flexibility for graduate students in terms of course offerings and importantly, research opportunities that support their respective degree choices. This is captured by the links below.

Optimization

One of the most active research groups in ISyE centers around subjects commonly identified with optimization and mathematical programming. On-going activities involving optimization faculty and their students span from fundamental studies of basic, methodological topics in linear, combinatorial, nonlinear, and stochastic optimization to those with a more focused perspective derived from real-world contexts such as airline crew scheduling, DNA-sequencing, and supply chain logistics. Some of these interests produce important theorems, others produce crucial algorithms, and others result in sophisticated models of complicated systems. Often, all three tastes and interests combine. In short, for those inclined to do work related to optimization, whether highly theoretical to more applied in nature, there is substantial activity in ISyE.

Typical of current research efforts are projects dealing with topics such as semidefinite programming, the development of strong cutting planes for integer programs, primal-dual methods, graph decompositions, interior-point mappings, network flows, complexity and the analysis of algorithms, group-theoretic approaches, large-scale optimization, combinatorial scheduling theory, guaranteed performance approximation procedures, and column generation methods. Students pursuing master's level work, would most naturally be drawn to requirements in the MSOR which can be found at: Master of Science in Operations Research while Ph.D. students will want to examine the link, Optimization.