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 system, energy systems, robotics, and management.
Selected Publications
Exploratory Grasping: Asymptotically Optimal Algorithms for Grasping Challenging Polyhedral Objects
Exploratory Grasping: Asymptotically Optimal Algorithms for Grasping Challenging Polyhedral Objects Mike Danielczuk*, Ashwin Balakrishna*, Daniel Brown, Shivin Devgon, Ken Goldberg. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Online MIT, Cambridge, MA, Nov 2020. [Paper] [5min Video] [Website].
Untangling Dense Knots by Learning Task-Relevant Keypoints
Untangling Dense Knots by Learning Task-Relevant Keypoints. Jennifer Grannen*, Priya Sundaresan*, Brijen Thananjeyan, Jeff Ichnowski, Ashwin Balakrishna, Vainavi Viswanath, Michael Laskey, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ken Goldberg. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Online MIT, Cambridge, MA, Nov 2020. [Paper] [5min Video] [Website]
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.
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)]
Simulating Nonstationary Spatio-Temporal Poisson Processes using the Inversion Method
Zhang, Haoting and Zheng, Zeyu, Simulating Nonstationary Spatio-Temporal Poisson Processes using the Inversion Method (July 27, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3661101 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3661101