News & Events

Lyle OREM assistant professor Dr. Digvijay Boob received a National Science Foundation CISE Research Initiation Initiative grant to study variational inequality and saddle point problems with complex constraints.

Congratulations to associate professor Dr. Eli Olinick on receiving National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, "BRITE Relaunch: Compact Network Flows for Critical Infrastructure Engineering.”

OREM assistant professor Harsha Gangammanavar is leading a multidisciplinary team to develop algorithms that improve complex energy systems—like the management of the energy grid under intermittent renewable power.

Dr. Sila Çetinkaya and her research team were featured in D Magazine for their work that provides quantitative evidence to support policy changes that improve wait times and patient outcomes.

Screening protocols to determine who qualifies for “compassionate dialysis” in hospitals with high numbers of uninsured patients are driving an unintended consequence. OREM chair Sila Çetinkaya and her research team show that these protocols are putting too much strain on emergency rooms.

Lyle OREM assistant professor Dr. Harsha Gangammanavar has received a new Office of Naval Research grant to study uncertain event-driven sequential decision making using stochastic programming methods.

SMU Lyle welcomes two new faculty members to the Operations Research and Engineering Management Department in Fall 2022, Dr. Ohad Perry and Dr. Diana M. Easton.

The paper on flipping classroom probability won the Best Paper Award in the Engineering Education Track at the 2021 IISE Annual Conference.

OREM Assistant Professor Digvijay Boob was among the finalists of INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition. Digvijay’s expertise is at the interface of Data Science and Optimization. Details of his paper can be found at the link below (INFORMS login required).

OREM Undergraduate David Troxell (a graduate student at Stanford as of Fall 2021) was selected runner-up for INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize. David's award winning work was co-advised by OREM Assistant Professors Miju Ahn and Harsha Gangammanavar. 

Department Chair and Cecil H. Green Professor of Engineering Sila Çetinkaya has been elected as President of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Association of Chairs of OR Departments (ACORD).