Simge Küçükyavuz
Biosketch
Simge Küçükyavuz is Chair and David A. and Karen Richards Sachs Professor in the Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Department at Northwestern University. She is an expert in mixed-integer, large-scale, and stochastic optimization. Her methodologies have applications in complex computational problems across numerous domains, including social networks, computing and energy infrastructure, statistical learning, and logistics. Her research has been supported by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR). She is an INFORMS Fellow, and the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize. She is the past chair of ICS and serves on the editorial boards of Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Operations Research, SIAM Journal on Optimization, and MOS-SIAM Optimization Book Series. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley.
Recent News and Events
- Plenary speaker at Third Vienna Workshop on Computational Optimization 2025 (VWCO25), Vienna, Austria, June 2025.
- Our paper, Integer Programming for Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs from Non-identifiable Gaussian Models, is published in Biometrika.
- Our paper, A Parametric Approach for Solving Convex Quadratic Optimization with Indicators Over Trees, is published in Mathematical Programming.
- Keynote speaker, 5th IMA and OR Society Conference on Mathematics of Operational Research, Birmingham, U.K., April-May 2025.
- Plenary speaker, The 18th INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2025.
- Check out our research highlight in the INFORMS Computing Society Newsletter, February 2025.
- Congratulations to Kim Yu for receiving the Nemhauser Best Dissertation Prize, 2025.
- Congratulations to PhD student Akul Bansal for receiving the Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) International Workshop Student Poster Prize Honorable Mention, 2024.
- Keynote speaker, Optimization Workshop: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, Bogota, Colombia, December 2024.
- Seminar speaker, Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research, Rice University, November 2024.
- Secretary/Treasurer and President-Elect of Association of Chairs of Operations Research Departments, 2024-2025.
- Featured in the s.t. podcast series by Anand Subramanian, October 2024.
- Seminar speaker, Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 2024.
- Seminar speaker, Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, September 2024.
- Invited speaker at International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Montreal, Canada, July 2024.
- Our paper, Dynamic Allocation of Reusable Resources: Logarithmic Regret in Overloaded Networks, is published in Operations Research.
- Keynote speaker, Inaugural ISE Student Conference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, April 2024.
- Seminar speaker, Wm Michael Barnes '64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University, April 2024.
- Our paper, On Constrained Mixed-Integer DR-Submodular Minimization, is published in Mathematics of Operations Research.
- Seminar speaker, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 2024.
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