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

The cost of collaboration

K. Gardner and R. Righter, “The Cost of collaboration,” Queueing Systems, vol. 100, pp. 7-40, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11134-021-09721-y .

Scheduling under redundancy

E. Anton, R. Righter, and I.M. Verloop. 2022. Scheduling under redundancy. SIGMETRICS Perform. Eval. Rev. 50, 2 (September 2022), 30–32. https://doi.org/10.1145/3561074.3561085

Routing with too much information?

E. Hyytiä, P. Jacko, and R. Righter, “Routing with too much information?” Queueing Systems, vol. 100, pp. 441-443, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11134-022-09818-y

VisuoSpatial Foresight for physical sequential fabric manipulation

Hoque, R., Seita, D., Balakrishna, A. et al. VisuoSpatial Foresight for physical sequential fabric manipulation. Auton Robot 46, 175–199 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-021-10001-0

Deep Transfer Learning of Pick Points on Fabric for Robot Bed-Making

Seita, Daniel & Jamali, Nawid & Laskey, Michael & Tanwani, Ajay & Berenstein, Ron & Baskaran, Prakash & Iba, Soshi & Canny, John & Goldberg, Kenneth. (2022). Deep Transfer Learning of Pick Points on Fabric for Robot Bed-Making. 10.1007/978-3-030-95459-8_17.

LS3: Latent Space Safe Sets for Long-Horizon Visuomotor Control of Sparse Reward Iterative Tasks

Wilcox, A., Balakrishna, A., Thananjeyan, B., Gonzalez, J.E., and Goldberg, K.. (2022). LS3: Latent Space Safe Sets for Long-Horizon Visuomotor Control of Sparse Reward Iterative Tasks. Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Robot Learning, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 164:959-969 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v164/wilcox22a.html.