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
- Keynote speaker, 5th IMA and OR Society Conference on Mathematics of Operational Research, Birmingham, U.K., April-May 2025.
- Keynote speaker, The 18th INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2025.
- 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.
- Seminar speaker, Workshop in Operations/Management Science, University of Chicago, March 2024.
- Seminar speaker, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, March 2024.
- Visiting Professor, Vienna Graduate School on Computational Optimization, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Jan 2024.
- Joined the editorial board of Operations Research as an Associate Editor.
- Our paper, Consistent Second-Order Conic Integer Programming for Learning Bayesian Networks, is published in Journal of Machine Learning Research.
- Elected as INFORMS Fellow, October 2023.
- Invited tutorial speaker at INFORMS 2023, Phoenix, AZ, October 2023. The accompanying paper is published in TutORials in Operations Research.
- Received new Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems grant titled A Complex Challenge: Social Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with W. Brady and E-A. Horvat, October 2023.
- Seminar speaker, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech, October 2023.
- Started my term as Department Chair and David A. and Karen Richards Sachs Professor, September 2023.
- Invited participant at Mixed-integer Nonlinear Optimization: A Hatchery for Modern Mathematics, Oberwolfach, Germany, August 2023.
- Congratulations to Kim Yu for defending her Ph.D. thesis. She will join University of Montreal as an assistant professor in Fall 2023.
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