Very grateful for the support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. I am excited to continue advancing the state of the art in stochastic and robust optimization methodologies and developing tools for smarter decision-making under uncertainty. @viterbischool.usc.edu shorturl.at/dRlW5

New solo-authored paper, the trade-off between optimism and pessimism in multi-resource planning and allocation under demand uncertainty, just came out in EJOR. You can access it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #orms

Congratulations to my former PhD student, Dr. Man Yiu Tsang on being selected as the 3rd place winner of the IISE’s 2026 Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award. I am very proud of Dr. Tsang’s accomplishments and happy to see his outstanding work receive this well-deserved recognition.

I have strong statistical evidence that my love for optimization under uncertainty is, indeed, distributionally robust. Happy Valentine’s Day Eve—and happy (almost surely) 2nd birthday to my daughter. hashtag#OptimizationUnderUncertainty ❤️📊

We we had fun yesterday learning about statistical hypothesis testing 😍 in my ISE 225 Foundations of Data Analysis (Engineering Statistics) class #StatisticalInference #HypothesisTesting #ILoveTeaching

Happy to chair this year’s Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis Award committee with co-chairs Dr. Sibel Alumur Alev (University of Waterloo) and Dr. Rajan Batta (University at Buffalo). Please see the call for nominations and help spread the word!

I’m happy to share that I’m starting my term as President of @informs.bsky.social Section on Location Analysis. I look forward to continuing to serve our community, leading SOLA activities, supporting our members, and strengthening the impact of location analysis research and applications.

Congratulations to Dr. Shutian Li on a phenomenal dissertation defense​ today!!!!. Dr. Li’s dissertation introduces innovative and computationally efficient models and algorithms for emerging large-scale optimization problems in Healthcare and Transportation.

Associate Editor waiting patiently for late reviewers reports. Happy Friday, everyone! #AELife

New preprint 🚨. In this paper, we introduce an innovative framework that sets a new direction for the emerging fields of drone-based disaster management and FL for drone delivery problems. Brilliant work led by amazing USC PhD student Yuyang Ma optimization-online.org?p=32497

I’m incredibly honored to receive the Chuck ReVelle Rising Star Award from SOLA @informs.bsky.social. This recognition is both inspiring and humbling; it raises the bar and motivates me to keep advancing location science and to live up to the spirit of this award. @viterbischool.usc.edu @usc.edu

For patients, every hour waiting for surgery feels endless. @viterbischool.usc.edu found a way to help — building data models that cut delays, ease hospital congestion, & improve access to care.

I was born to become a professor, and I'm incredibly honored & grateful to continue contributing to our field as the WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of ISE at USC. I'm committed to advancing our research and educational mission at USC, and I'm thankful to everyone who makes this journey meaningful

Looking forward to presenting our recent work on improving fairness in graduate medical education at the Virtual Discrete Optimization Talks (DOTs) tomorrow. We’ll share insights on how equity-promoting optimization techniques can address fairness concerns in medical resident training.

I am super happy to share that my proposal, “Advancing Contextual Stochastic Optimization via Distributionally Robust Optimization Techniques,” has been recommended for sponsorship by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Mathematical Optimization program @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu

Congratulations to my brilliant PhD student, Shutian Li, on the acceptance of her paper, "Equity-promoting Integer Programming Approaches For Medical Resident Rotation Scheduling," in Health Care Management Science (co-authored with me, Prof. Frank E. Curtis, and Dr. Beth R. Hochman).

Thanks to Greta Harrison for writing this news item about our recent paper and to my amazing co-authors, Dr. Padman, Dr. Tsang, Dr. Kilic (MD) @viterbischool.usc.edu @usc.edu viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2025/09...

Kicking off my first semester with the Trojans family @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu Wishing everyone a happy and successful Fall semester. #FightOn

Thrilled to be joining @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu and the Daniel J. Epstein Department of ISE later this week as the Gabilan Assistant Professor of ISE. Excited to continue building, inspiring, elevating, and pushing boundaries. Onward and upward #FightOn!

Happy to share that I've officially become a U.S. citizen! I'm deeply grateful for everything this country has given me—from higher education and a career to lifelong friendships, family, and unconditional love. I've been a good human and citizen, and I will continue to be. #NewUSCitizen

Our paper, A Unified Framework for Analyzing and Optimizing a Class of Convex Fairness Measures, has been accepted in Operations Research.This paper, joint work w Dr.Tsang, presents a new step toward mulating and solving fairness-promoting optimization problems shorturl.at/hmMq4 @informs.bsky.social

Proud doesn’t even begin to cover it. Congratulations, Dr. Man Yiu (Tim) Tsang. It's been an honor to be part of your journey.

1/3 Congratulations to my first PhD student, Dr. Man Yiu (Tim) Tsang, on today's outstanding dissertation defense! Dr. Tsang's dissertation, which includes 7 chaps, pushes the theoretical and computational boundaries of stochastic and robust optimization methodologies and their applications…

Join us for the Robust Optimization Webinar (#ROW) this Friday, May 2, at 15:00 (CET). Speaker: Francesca Maggioni (University of Bergamo) Title: Sampling and Bounding Methods for Multistage Robust and Distributionally Robust Optimization More information: sites.google.com/view/row-ser...

I’m looking for a Postdoc to join my research group at the of Southern California @usc.edu (we’re moving to USC this August!) to work on exciting projects in stochastic and distributionally robust optimization, with real-world applications in healthcare, FL, and transportation. shorturl.at/5L4Ne

Just a few days left to submit those nominations

1/3 I reached a minor milestone today—my citation count hit 500 this morning! I started my career with just one published journal paper (+ some preprints) and around two citations in 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

With @karmelshehadeh.bsky.social and Milos Kopa, we are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the triennial Dupačová-Prékopa Student Paper Prize in Stochastic Programming. Nominations are due March 25. For details about the prize and nomination process, see icsp2025.org/student-pape...