Mar 24: Ha presented First Order Trust Region Methods with Adaptive Sampling at the 2nd INFORMS Optimization Society’s Conference in Houston, TX.

Mar 24: Shashaani to present a tutorial on Simulation Optimization in 2024 Winter Simulation Conference at Orlando!

Mar 24: Paper “Iteration Complexity and Finite-Time Efficiency of Adaptive Sampling Trust-Region Methods for Stochastic Derivative-Free Optimizationaccepted for publication in IISE Transactions.

Mar 2024: Paper “Building Trees for Probabilistic Prediction via Scoring Rules” is tentatively accepted at Technometrics

Jan 24: New paper “Two-stage Estimation and Variance Modeling for Variational Quantum Algorithms” submitted.

Dec 23: Shashaani selected for the Baden-Württemberg/North Carolina – Faculty Mobility Program.

Nov 23: Ha successfully defends his PhD dissertation and receives an unconditional pass from the committee. He will next be joining the National Laboratory of Renewable Energy as a postdoc working with a computational optimization group. Congratulations Dr. Ha!

Aug 23: Vahdat successfully defended her PhD dissertation and will be a data analyst in Liberty Mutual after graduate school. Congratulations Kimia!

Jul 23: Paper “Risk Score Models for Unplanned Urinary Tract Infection Hospitalization” with Alizadeh, Vahdat, Ozaltin, and Swann submitted.