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OR Committee

 

Jose A. Ventura (Chair)
Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering and Dean’s Fellow
Office: 356 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-865-3841
Email: jav1@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Nonlinear network optimization, energy logistics, computational geometry applied to vision inspection, scheduling.


N. Serhat Aybat

Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
Office: 360 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-867-1284
E-mail: nsa10@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: First Order Methods for Large-Scale Convex Optimization, Compressive Sensing, Matrix Rank Minimization, Robust and Stable PCA, and Distributed Algorithms.


Saurabh Bansal

Professor of Supply Chain & Information Systems
Office: 405 Business Building
Phone: 814-863-3797
Fax: 814-863-7067
Email: sub32@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Risk estimation and optimization.


Enrique del Castillo

Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering and Professor of Statistics
Office: 357 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-863-6408
Email: exd13@psu.edu
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Research Interests: Process optimization and experimental design, time series analysis and control, bayesian statistics, large-scale spatial and functional data modeling, statistical learning theory, and manifold learning.


S. Ilgin Guler

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
Office: 403 Sackett Building
Phone: 814-867-6210
E-mail: iguler@engr.psu.edu
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Research Interests: Transportation and urban networks.


Yanyuan Ma

Professor of Statistics
Office: 415 Thomas Building
Phone: 814-863-0980
Email: yzm63@psu.edu
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Research Interests: Measurement error models, dimension reduction, mixed sample problems, latent variable models, selection bias and skew-elliptical distributions, missing not at random problems and more generally semiparametrics.


 

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