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

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

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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Coordinating Electric Vehicle Charging Station Installation between the Government and Automakers

Yu, Jiayi & Tang, Christopher & Li, Musen & Shen, Max. (2020). Coordinating Electric Vehicle Charging Station Installation between the Government and Automakers. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10.2139/ssrn.3561317.

Role of Sparsity and Structure in the Optimization Landscape of Non-convex Matrix Sensing

Igor Molybog, Somayeh Sojoudi, and Javad Lavaei, Role of Sparsity and Structure in the Optimization Landscape of Non-convex Matrix Sensing, to appear in Mathematical Programming, 2020.