Can we efficiently solve convex quadratic optimization with indicators over graphs? While the answer is a big NO for general graphs, we've shown it can be solved in quadratic time over trees! Joint work with the dream team: Aaresh Bhathena, Andrés Gómez, and Simge Kucukyavuz

The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (IEMS) at Northwestern Engineering is pleased to announce the hiring of Minshuo Chen as a tenure-track assistant professor. Chen will join IEMS in the fall.  Learn more here: tinyurl.com/5ed9b6bc

Congrats, to IEMS PhD grads Haoxiang Yang & Daniel Duque, & Prof. Dave Morton paper "Optimizing diesel fuel supply chain operations to mitigate power outages for hurricane relief" has been selected as Best Application Paper in the 2023 IISE Transactions Focus Issue.

We had a gorgeous day for our annual #NUIEMS Spring Picnic! ☀️🪻

This article features one of our own IE Undergraduates Eric Loza-Corona, #NU2024 🎓💜youtu.be/9gp1IvH0Du4

Monday we celebrated our 2023-2024 IEMS PhD Graduates! Congratulations, to a great group of students! #NU2024 #NUIEMS🎓💜

Professor @Noshir Contractor will help lead Web Science Trust’s efforts to promote understanding, through education and research, of how the Web shapes society and how society, in turn, shapes the Web. IEMS mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/…

🌟 Exciting news! Both undergraduate and graduate programs in IEMS at Northwestern Engineering were ranked #4 by US News & World Report! Thanks to our dedicated faculty, students, alumni, and staff for making this possible.

Check out a recent podcast featuring Viji Krishnamurthy (IEMS PhD, 2005), where she discusses her impressive career journey and her exciting work leading generative AI at Oracle. Don't miss this inspiring conversation! 🎙️✨ #GenerativeAI #IEMSAlumni share.transistor.fm/s/ad9560fc

"There is a need for a variety of powerful #optimization #algorithms." Jorge Jorge Nocedal of Northwestern is the 2024 recipient of the John von Neumann Prize--SIAM's flagship lecture--for his work to optimize deep #neuralnetworks. #SIAMED24 #SIAMDM24. sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/j…

#NUIEMS Prof. Dave Morton spoke on MDP's & multi-stage stochastic programming: modeling &computation at the #ISMP2024 Conference in Montréal, Canada. ismp2024.gerad.ca/schedule/WP/981

A research program led by Kellogg School and McCormick faculty has been awarded $20 million from the NSF for work on measuring, understanding, predicting, and accelerating technology innovations. Dashun Wang Jennifer Dunn The Lucks Lab Tullman-Ercek Lab IEMS spr.ly/6018chn4p

Our IEMS Advisory Board Spotlight: Director, SteelCloud and Colony Display, Senior Advisor to Ownership Works, & Chair of the McCormick Advisory Board. Learn more about our IEMS Advisory Board here: lnkd.in/g2KGgGZn

We are proud to share this article, Yian Yin (PhD ’22), who has accomplished plenty since earning his PhD in 2022 from IEMS at Northwestern Engineering. He was listed in Forbes 2024 ’30 Under 30’ in the science category. tinyurl.com/tt7j4yvy

Operations Research among the top 10 highest-paying college majors in the US according to CNBC: cnbc.com/amp/2024/09/05…. #orms

We are excited to welcome our Incoming Fall 2024 IEMS PhD Cohort! 💜🎉 #NUIEMS

Northwestern Engineering’s Hani Mahmassani has been named to the 2024 class of INFORMS Fellows, one of the highest honors in the operations research profession. Congrats, Hani! H Mahmassani NUTC INFORMS Northwestern Civil & Environmental Engineering IEMS spr.ly/6014UKHpe

Subject to: Simge Küçükyavuz (Northwestern University), youtu.be/g68xefHGrHo, #orms #optimization #analytics #WomenInSTEAM Simge Kucukyavuz Northwestern IEMS Women in OR/MS EURO WISDOM

Congratulations, to our IEMS Award Winners for 2023-2024! 👏 These are awarded each Fall: Grad Teaching Award, Prof. Daniel Apley, The Arthur P. Hurter Award for outstanding First Year, Cameron Curtis, & Student Leadership Awards, Megan Chan, Shambhobi Bhattacharya, & Mark Noll.

Congratulations to our Professor Jill Wilson Faculty and Assistant Chair for Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences on the Faculty Senate Presidency! Read the Q&A interview from The Daily Northwestern linked here :tinyurl.com/3pbk2at6