UT Austin ORIE

This Friday's @ut_orie seminar will be given by Prof. James Smith from @dartmouth @TuckSchool. Join us in ETC 5.132 at 2pm for his talk "Unit Commitment Without Commitment: A Dynamic Programming Approach for Managing an Integrated Energy System Under Uncertainty."

I was very flattered to receive the Best Paper Award (2025) from the journal Computers & Operations Research! 🏅 Most of the credit goes to my co-authors, especially my former PhD student Donghao Liu. Link to our paper, now open access due to this award: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Campus is quiet this week. Wishing all of our students a safe and enjoyable Spring Break. I know you’ll come back ready to finish the semester strong.

Five researchers at UT Austin are bridging engineering and public policy to study how carbon capture could work as a full system. The team, spanning @CockrellSchool and @TheLBJSchool, is creating a research road map to find better carbon capture processes. The collaboration was supported by an Incubator planning grant from UT’s Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors. 📖 Read the story: bit.ly/4lhPpyQ

This Friday's @ut_orie seminar will be given by Lukesh Singla from @Nike. Join us in ETC 5.132 at 2pm for his talk on "Forecast Bias and Inventory Inaccuracy: A Machine Learning Approach to Root Cause Analysis." #MachineLearning #SupplyChain #Forecasting #InventoryManagement

New journal article from @ut_orie PhD graduate Lillian Ding and Prof. Jonathan Bard in Socio-Economic Planning Sciences: "Long-term workforce planning for home healthcare" #optimization #healthcare #workforce 🧑‍⚕️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New semester, new lineup of Byron Short Seminars! This Friday we're joined by professor Angelia Nedich from @AsuEnergy. Come check it out tinyurl.com/mfwnt59n

We're #1 again! UT Austin is No. 1 in the nation for research funded by the National Science Foundation (@NSF). According to the latest HERD rankings, UT Austin also ranks No. 5 in research financed by the Department of Defense (DOD) and No. 6 for Department of Energy (DOE) research. Together, these rankings reflect the scale and impact of the research happening on the Forty Acres, driving innovation, strengthening Texas’ economy and delivering solutions that improve lives across our nation. Learn more about these rankings: utex.as/4juhfqu

Wishing all Texans and Longhorn Nation happy holidays from The University of Texas at Austin. Here’s to a bright year ahead. 🤘

Congrats to UT Austin’s @INFORMS student chapter on receiving the 2025 Magna Cum Laude Annual Award! This award reflects the @ut_orie chapter’s strong involvement throughout the 2024–2025 academic year, which included hosting research seminars and social events.

Congratulations to my student Donghao Liu for successfully defending his dissertation in @ut_orie! 🤘🎓 It's been a pleasure to co-supervise Donghao with Prof. Jon Bard. Donghao is a whiz at developing algorithms to solve difficult (integer/stochastic) #optimization problems!

UT Austin’s acquisition of 4,000 NVIDIA GPUs and high-performance Dell PowerEdge servers marks another major investment in our research infrastructure, accelerating discovery across the Forty Acres and powering innovations for Texas and the nation. Read more here ➡️ utex.as/4r1mjpX

We are excited to welcome three new tenure-track Assistant Professors who are joining the UT Austin ORIE faculty in 2025 and 2026! Jisun Lee, Yashaswini Murthy, and Hairong Wang all bring new methodological and application domain expertise to our program: orie.utexas.edu/news/101-orie-…

Congratulations to my student Abdullah Albeladi for successfully defending his PhD dissertation in @ut_orie! 🤘🎓 After graduating next month, Abdullah will return to his native Saudi Arabia as an Assistant Professor at King Abdulaziz University. #orms #optimization #energy

We're proud to share that the @INFORMS Student Chapter at @UTAustin has received a Magna Cum Laude Student Chapter Annual Award from INFORMS for 2025! 🏅 The award recognizes our chapter's strong commitment to professional development & community building informs.org/Recognizing-Ex…

We're thrilled to have Dr. Hairong Wang join our program as an Assistant Professor! Dr. Wang is an expert in #machinelearning, data mining, applied #optimization, #healthcare analytics, and precision medicine. For more about Dr. Wang and the ORIE faculty: orie.utexas.edu/people/faculty…

This Friday's @ut_orie seminar will be given by Dr. Daniel Tabas from @basepowerco. Join us in ETC 5.132 at 2pm for his talk on "Deploying and Operating Texas's Largest Virtual Power Plant." #orms #energy #batteries #algorithms 🔋

We're proud to be a Bronze Level sponsor of the 2025 @INFORMS Annual Meeting, which kicks off this weekend Many of our faculty members, students, and alumni will attend and present their work. If you'll be at #INFORMS2025, we'll see you there! #HookEm 🤘 meetings.informs.org/wordpress/annu…

I'm looking forward to speaking at the Texas Energy Summit on Nov 4. Registration is open and *free* for students! In #Energy 101: Beginner's Guide to the Big Picture workshop, I'll give a brief overview of the #electricity sector in TX @txenergysummit texasenergysummit.com

This Friday's @ut_orie seminar will be given by ORIE faculty member Prof. @EBickel. Join us in ETC 5.132 at 2pm for his talk "Beyond Parameters: The QFlex System for Direct Quantile Modeling." Joint work with PhD student Connor Colombe and @BDLeibowicz. #orms #decisionanalysis