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

Gradient-Based Simulation Optimization Algorithms via Multi-Resolution System Approximations

Xu, Jingxu & Zheng, Zeyu. (2023). Gradient-Based Simulation Optimization Algorithms via Multi-Resolution System Approximations. INFORMS Journal on Computing. 35. 10.1287/ijoc.2023.1279.

A Doubly Stochastic Simulator with Applications in Arrivals Modeling and Simulation

Yufeng, Zheng & Zheng, Zeyu. (2020). Doubly Stochastic Generative Arrivals Modeling.

A Breakpoints Based Method for the Maximum Diversity and Dispersion Problems

Hochbaum, D. S., Liu, Z., & Goldschmidt, O. (2023). A Breakpoints Based Method for the Maximum Diversity and Dispersion Problems. In Proceedings of the SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA23) (pp. 189-200). Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611977714.17

Comparing solution paths of sparse quadratic minimization with a Stieltjes matrix

He, Ziyu & Han, Shaoning & Gomez, Andres & Cui, Ying & Pang, Jong-Shi. (2023). Comparing solution paths of sparse quadratic minimization with a Stieltjes matrix. Mathematical Programming. 10.1007/s10107-023-01966-0.

Mean-Field Controls with Q-Learning for Cooperative MARL: Convergence and Complexity Analysis

H. Gu, X. Guo, X. Wei, R. Xu, “Mean-field controls with Q-learning for cooperative MARL: convergence and complexity analysis”. SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 2021.

Interbank lending with benchmark rates: Pareto optima for a class of singular control games

Cont, RGuo, XXu, RInterbank lending with benchmark rates: Pareto optima for a class of singular control gamesMathematical Finance2021311357– 1393https://doi.org/10.1111/mafi.12325

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