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

Accommodating New Flights into an Existing Airline Flight Schedule

Ozge Safak, Alper Atamturk and M. Selim Akturk. Accommodating New Flights into an Existing Airline Flight Schedule. Transportation Research Part C 104, 265-286, 2019. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0968090X18315602?via%3Dihub.

Simulation and Real-World Evaluation of Attack Detection Schemes

M. Porter, A. Joshi, P. Hespanhol, A. Aswani, M. Johnson-Roberson, and R. Vasudevan (2019), Simulation and real-world evaluation of attack detection schemes, In Proceedings of the American Control Conference.

Product Sourcing and Distribution Strategies under Supply Disruption and Recall Risks

Long He, Ying Rong, Zuo‐Jun Max Shen, “Product Sourcing and Distribution Strategies under Supply Disruption and Recall Risks“, 2019 Production and Operations Management Society.

Stochastic In-Face Frank-Wolfe Methods for Non-Convex Optimization and Sparse Neural Network Training

Paul Grigas, Alfonso Lobos, Nathan Vermeersch. “Stochastic In-Face Frank-Wolfe Methods for Non-Convex Optimization and Sparse Neural Network Training”. arXiv:1906.03580

 

Sharp Restricted Isometry Bounds for the Inexistence of Spurious Local Minima in Nonconvex Matrix Recovery

Richard Zhang, Somayeh Sojoudi, and Javad Lavaei. Sharp Restricted Isometry Bounds for the Inexistence of Spurious Local Minima in Nonconvex Matrix Recovery. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2019. https://jmlr.org/papers/v20/19-020.html.

Clustering by Orthogonal NMF Model and Non-Convex Penalty Optimization

Wang, Shuai & Chang, Tsung-Hui & Cui, Ying & Jong-Shi, & Pang,. (2019). Clustering by Orthogonal NMF Model and Non-Convex Penalty Optimization.