Operations Research and Statistics

Publications and Working Papers

Here is a selection of highlighted publications by the Operations Research and Statistics Faculty.

Arnold I. Barnett

Arnold I. Barnett

George Eastman Professor of Management Science

Featured Publications

"Collision Course? The North Airfield Safety Study at Los Angeles International Airport."

Barnett, Arnold, Michael Ball, George Donohue, Mark Hansen, Amedeo Odoni and Antonio Trani. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Vol. 77, (2015): 14-34.

"Probability as a Reality Show."

Barnett, Arnold. ORMS Today, June 2015.

"Has Successful Terror Gone to Ground?"

Barnett, Arnold I. Risk Analysis Vol. 35, No. 4 (2015): 732-740.

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Dimitris Bertsimas

Dimitris Bertsimas

Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management

Featured Publications

"Characterization of the Equivalence of Robustification and Regularization in Linear, Median, and Matrix Regression."

Bertsimas, Dimitris, and Martin S. Copenhaver. European Journal of Operational Research Vol. 270, No. 3 (2018): 931-942. arXiv Preprint.

"From Physical Properties of Transportation Flows to Demand Predictions: An Optimization Approach."

Bertsimas, Dimitris, and Julia Yan. Transportation Science Vol. 52, No. 4 (2018): 1002-1011.

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Robert M. Freund

Robert M. Freund

Theresa Seley Professor in Management Science

Featured Publications

"Accelerating Greedy Coordinate Descent Methods."

Haihao Lu, Robert M. Freund, and Vahab Morrokni. In 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018, edited by Iain Murray and Shakir Mohamed. Stockholm, Sweden: July 2018. Supplementary Material.

"New Computational Guarantees for Solving Convex Optimization Problems with First Order Methods, via a Function Growth Condition Measure."

Freund, Robert M., and Haihao Lu. Mathematical Programming Vol. 170, No. 2 (2018): 445-477.

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David D. Gamarnik

David D. Gamarnik

Nanyang Technological University Professor of Operations Research

Featured Publications

"Delay, Memory, and Messaging Tradeoffs in Distributed Service Systems."

David Gamarnik, John N Tsitsiklis, and Martin Zubeldia. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Science, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France: June 2016.

"Finding a Large Submatrix of a Gaussian Random Matrix."

​Gamarnik, David, and Quan Li. Annals of Statistics Vol. 46, No. 6A (2018): 2511-2561.

"Join the Shortest Queue with Many Servers. The Heavy Traffic Asymptotics."

​Eschenfeldt, Patrick, and David Gamarnik. Mathematics of Operations Research Vol. 43, No. 3 (2018): 867-886.

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Swati Gupta

Swati Gupta

Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Statistics

Featured Publications

"Secretary Problems with Biased Evaluations using Partial Ordinal Information."

Salem, Jad and Swati Gupta. Management Science. Forthcoming. SSRN.

"Using Algorithms to Tame Discrimination: A Path To Algorithmic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion."

Desai, Deven R., Swati Gupta, Jad Salem. UC Davis Law Review, April 2023.

"Discovering Opportunities in New York City's Discovery Program: Disadvantaged Students in Highly Competitive Markets."

Yuri Faenza, Swati Gupta, and Xuan Zhang (Journal version, under submission). In EC '23: Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, New York, NY: July 2023. arXiv.

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Alexandre Jacquillat

Alexandre Jacquillat

Class of 1942 Career Development Professor; Associate Professor, Operations Research and Statistics

Featured Publications

"Routing Optimization with Vehicle-Customer Coordination."

Zhang, Wei, Alexandre Jacquillat, Kai Wang, and Shuaian Wang. Management Science Vol. 69, No. 11 (2023): 6876-6897. SSRN Preprint.

"Vertiport Planning for Urban Aerial Mobility: An Adaptive Discretization Approach."

Wang, Kai, Alexandre Jacquillat, and Vikrant Vaze. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. Forthcoming. Supplemental Materials.

"Relay Logistics: A Multi-variable Generation Approach."

Jacquillat, Alexandre, Alexandria Schmid, and Kai Wang, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6811-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, October 2022.

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Thomas Magnanti

Thomas Magnanti

Institute Professor

Featured Publications

"Scheduling with Testing."

Levi, Retsef, Thomas Magnanti, and Yaron Shaposhnik. Management Science Vol. 65, No. 2 (2019): 776-793.

Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications.

Ahuja, Ravindra K., Thomas Magnanti, and James B. Orlin. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.

"Maintenance Scheduling for Modular Systems – New Models and Algorithms."

Levi, Retsef, Thomas Magnanti, Jack Muckstadt, Danny Segev and Eric Zarybnisky. Naval Research Logistics Vol. 61, No. 6 (2014): 472-488.

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Rahul Mazumder

Rahul Mazumder

Nanyang Technological University Associate Professor of Operations Research and Statistics

Featured Publications

"A Computational Framework for Multivariate Convex Regression and its Variants."

Mazumder, Rahul, Arkopal Choudhury, Garud Iyengar, and Bodhisattva Sen. Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol. 114, No. 525 (2019): 318-331.

"Flexible Low-rank Statistical Modeling with Missing Data and Side Information."

Fithian, William, and Rahul Mazumder. Statistical Science Vol. 33, No. 2 (2018): 238-260. arXiv Preprint.

"A New Perspective on Boosting in Linear Regression via Subgradient Optimization and Relatives."

Freund, Robert M., Paul Grigas, and Rahul Mazumder. Annals of Statistics Vol. 45, No. 6 (2017): 2328-2364.

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James B. Orlin

James B. Orlin

E. Pennell Brooks (1917) Professor in Management

Featured Publications

Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications.

Ahuja, Ravindra K., Thomas Magnanti, and James B. Orlin. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.

"An O(nm) Time Algorithm for Finding the Min Length Directed Cycle in a Graph."

James B. Orlin and Antonio Sedeño-Noda. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, edited by Philip N. Klein. Barcelona, Spain: January 2017.

"Max Flows in O(nm) Time or Better."

James B. Orlin. In STOC '13 Proceedings of the Forty-fifth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, New York, NY: June 2013.

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Georgia Perakis

Georgia Perakis

John C Head III Dean (Interim), MIT Sloan School of Management

Featured Publications

"The Impact of Linear Optimization in Promotion Planning."

Cohen, Maxime C., Ngai-Hang Zachary Leung, Kiran Panchamgam, Georgia Perakis, and Anthony Smith. Operations Research Vol. 65, No. 2 (2017): 446-468. Media Mentions: MIT Sloan Experts. O.R. by the Beach. HuffPost.

"Regret in the Newsvendor Problem with Partial Information."

Perakis, Georgia and Guillaume Roels. Operations Research Vol. 56, No. 1 (2008): 188-203. Related extended abstract. Appendix.

"The 'Price of Anarchy' Under Nonlinear and Asymmetric Costs."

Perakis, Georgia. Mathematics of Operations Research Vol. 32, No. 3 (2007): 614-628.

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Roy E. Welsch

Roy E. Welsch

Eastman Kodak Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management

Featured Publications

"Robust Dependence Modeling for High-Dimensional Covariance Matrices with Financial Applications."

Zhu, Zhe, and Roy Welsch. The Annals of Applied Statistics Vol. 12, No. 2 (2018): 1228-1249.

"Learning Word Dependencies in Text by Means of a Deep Recurrent Belief Network."

Chaturvedi, Iti, Yew-Soon Ong, Ivor W. Tsang, Roy Welsch, and Erik Cambria. Knowledge Based Systems Vol. 108, (2016): 144–154.

"Statistical Evaluation of the Causal Mechanisms Associated with Astronaut Shoulder Injury in Space Suits."

Anderson, Allison, Dava J. Newman, and Roy E. Welsch. Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance Vol. 86 , No. 7 (2015): 606-613.

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Gordon Kaufman

Gordon Kaufman

Morris A. Adelman Professor of Management, Emeritus

Featured Publications

"Probabilistic Aggregation of Uncertain Geological Resources."

Kaufman, Gordon M., Ricardo A. Olea, and R. Faith, M.S. Blondes. Mathematical Geosciences Vol. 50, No. 7 (2018): 729–752.

"Chapter 5: Properties of Sums of Geologic Random Variables."

Kaufman, Gordon M. In Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences: Fifty Years of IAMG, edited by B.S. Daya Sagar, Frits Agterberg, and Qiuming Cheng, 105-115. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

"Properties of Successive Sample Moment Estimators."

Barouch, E., S. Chow, Gordon M. Kaufman, and T. Wright, Working Paper. 1985.

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