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

Uniqueness of Power Flow Solutions Using Graph-theoretic Notions

Zhang, Haixiang & Park, Sangwoo & Lavaei, Javad & Baldick, R.. (2020). Uniqueness of Power Flow Solutions Using Graph-theoretic Notions.

Data-driven framework for large-scale prediction of charging energy in electric vehicles

Zhao, Yang & Wang, Zhenpo & Shen, Max & Sun, Fengchun. (2021). Data-driven framework for large-scale prediction of charging energy in electric vehicles. Applied Energy. 282. 116175. 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.116175.

AHEAD : Ad-Hoc Electronic Auction Design

Derchu, Joffrey & Guillot, Philippe & Mastrolia, Thibaut & Rosenbaum, Mathieu. (2020). AHEAD : Ad-Hoc Electronic Auction Design.

Smoothing Property of Load Variation Promotes Finding Global Solutions of Time-Varying Optimal Power Flow

Julie Mulvaney-Kemp, Salar Fattahi, and Javad Lavaei, Smoothing Property of Load Variation Promotes Finding Global Solutions of Time-Varying Optimal Power Flow, conditionally accepted for IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2020.

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Conic Optimization for Quadratic Regression Under Sparse Noise

Molybog, Ramtin Madani, and Javad Lavaei. Conic Optimization for Quadratic Regression Under Sparse Noise. Journal of Machine Learning Research. https://www.jmlr.org/papers/v21/18-881.html.

Simulating Polyculture Farming to Tune Automation Policies for Plant Diversity and Precision Irrigation

Simulating Polyculture Farming to Tune Automation Policies for Plant Diversity and Precision Irrigation. Yahav Avigal, William Wong, Jensen Gao, Kevin Li, Mark Theis, Mark Preston, Grady Pierroz, Fang Shuo Deng, Ken Goldberg. Winner of Best Student Paper Award. 2020 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Online (Hong Kong) Aug 20-21, 2020. [Paper] [Presentation Video (15 mins)]