I am currently looking for two PhD students interested in optimization under uncertainty and combinatorial optimization to join my research group in Fall 2022. Please refer to the attached flyer for details and feel free to forward it to any potential candidates. Thank you!

The Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAAM) at Rice University will change its name, effective July 1, to Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research (CMOR). bit.ly/3NpBcNT

My last in-person meeting as a postdoc at CMOR Rice Engineering and Computing! It was a great pleasure to work with @IllyaHicks and his group. Heading to the IMSE Texas Tech University for a new academic journey.

Our paper "Linear-size formulations for connected planar graph partitioning and districting" by me, Hamidreza Validi, @AustinLBuchanan, and @IllyaHicks. Paper: optimization-online.org/2022/08/linear… Code: github.com/JackDaihanZhan…

We are deeply saddened to communicate the death of Ismael DeFarias Jr., Assoc. Professor of Industrial, Manufacturing & Systems Engineering at Texas Tech U, a prolific researcher in integer optimization and quantum computing, and a wonderful friend. tributearchive.com/obituaries/255…

If you're a professor or a student in STEM in a Western country, you probably know someone from the Sharif University of Technology in Iran. They might have be your students, peers, or friends. That university is now under attack by the Islamic Republic. 🧵(1/16) #MahsaAmini

Congratulations to Prof. Illya Hicks, chair of the Dept. of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research, on being elected vice president of education for INFORMS! 🔗 bit.ly/3SIuoyd

I am excited to be presenting our work in Maral Shahmizad's political redistricting session at @INFORMS2022.

.Sina Aghaei is on the academic job market this year! He does great work at the interface of optimization and machine learning and focused on issues of interpretability, fairness, and robustness. Check out his talk and session in a bit @INFORMS2022 !

Enjoying @INFORMS2022 so much. Catching up with old friends, meeting new people, and learning recent research advances. I am especially thrilled to share this special moment with Peter Yun Zhang for winning the #JFIG paper competition.

I am as ecstatic as I am surprised (and I'm VERY surprised) to announce that I have received an NSF CAREER Award! My five year project will seek to establish optimal rates for continuous optimization over Riemannian manifolds. Award information: tinyurl.com/5u2zvuby

"..., Christos Papadimitriou told me that the traveling salesman problem is not a problem, it's an addiction," Dr. Bentley said

Huck will be missed at TTU IMSE! TAMU ISEN is super lucky to have you.

I had a great experience of using Tim Roughgarden’s book to cover the NP-completeness section of my Network Optimization course in Spring 2023. #orms

The paper is now available at link.springer.com/article/10.100………! Another huge shout-out to my mentors and coauthors Dr. Hamidreza Validi, Dr. @AustinLBuchanan, and Dr. Illya V. Hicks.

Super excited to be back at another INFORMS conference! At the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting, I will be presenting the work "Integer programming formulations for partitioning a graph into low-diameter clusters" in the session "Cliques and Their Relaxations."

Humbly honored to be the winner of the 2023 INFORMS Best Dissertation Award in the Telecommunication and Network Analytics section. Many thanks to my advisor, @AustinLBuchanan, for all the support!

Our paper "Partitioning a graph into low-diameter clusters" by me, Lucas Silveira, Hamidreza Validi , Logan Smith, @AustinLBuchanan , and Illya V. Hicks is finally available online! Paper: github.com/JackDaihanZhan… Code: github.com/JackDaihanZhan…