Research

IEOR researchers investigate the latest mathematical tools, approaches, and methodologies to make new theoretical discoveries and innovations that touch nearly every industry, making them more efficient and profitable in areas such as supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, data science, energy systems, robotics, and management.

Selected Publications

Method of Moments Estimation for Lévy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Stochastic Volatility Models

Zeyu Zheng, Xiangyu Yang, Yanfeng Wu, and Jian-Qiang Hu. Method of Moments Estimation for Lévy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Stochastic Volatility Models. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269964820000315.

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ABC-LMPC: Safe Sample-Based Learning MPC for Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with Adjustable Boundary Conditions

ABC-LMPC: Safe Sample-Based Learning MPC for Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with Adjustable Boundary Conditions. Brijen Thananjeyan*, Ashwin Balakrishna*, Ugo Rosolia, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Aaron Ames, Ken Goldberg. Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), Oulu, Finland, July 2021. [paper]

Statistical consistency of set-membership estimator for linear systems

A. Aswani and P. Hespanhol (2020), Statistical consistency of set-membership estimator for linear systems, IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 4, no. 3: 668-673.

X-RAY: Mechanical Search for an Occluded Object by Minimizing Support of Learned Occupancy Distributions

X-RAY: Mechanical Search for an Occluded Object by Minimizing Support of Learned Occupancy Distributions. Michael Danielczuk, Anelia Angelova, Vincent Vanhoucke, Ken Goldberg. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 2020. [paper], [website].

Reliable Hub Location Model for Air Transportation Networks Under Random Disruptions

H Shen, Y Liang, ZJM Shen (2019). Reliable Hub Location Model for Air Transportation Networks under Random Disruptions. To appear in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2019.0845.

Regulation of renewable resource exploitation

Kharroubi, Idris, Lim, Thomas, and Mastrolia, Thibaut. “Regulation of Renewable Resource Exploitation.” SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 58, no. 1 (2020): 551-579. https://doi.org/10.1137/19M1265740