Operations Research and Industrial Engineering faculty work in disciplines and departments across UT Austin, bringing experience and expertise to every area in ORIE.
Jonathan Bard
Professor
Industrial Properties Corporation Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering
D.Sc. George Washington University
Research Interests: Design and analysis of manufacturing systems; large-scale hierarchical optimization; healthcare delivery improvement; workforce planning and scheduling
512-471-3076
512-471-1336
ETC 5.126
Eric Bickel
Professor
Engineering Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 1
Ph.D. Stanford University
Research Interests: Decision-making under uncertainty; analytics; value of information; economics; business strategy; energy and climate policy; decision-making in sports; free-market solutions to policy challenges
512-232-8316
ETC 5.128C
Raghu Bollapragada
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Research Interests: Nonlinear Optimization, Stochastic Optimization, Derivative-Free Optimization, Distributed Optimization, Optimization for Machine Learning
ETC 5.118
Stephen Boyles
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Clyde E. Lee Endowed Professorship in Transportation Engineering
Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests: Network modeling; traffic assignment; transportation user behavior; infrastructure systems
512-471-3548
ECJ 6.204
Constantine Caramanis
Professor
Chandra Family Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering #1
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Autonomous decision-making in large-scale complex systems, machine learning, reinforcement learning and agents, and applications to generative models.
512-471-9269
EER 6.820
Dragan Djurdjanovic
Professor
Accenture Endowed Professorship in Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Research Interests: Advanced quality control in multi-station manufacturing systems; immunity inspired approaches to diagnosis and control of complex dynamic systems; maintenance decision-making in flexible and reconfigurable systems; applications of advanced signal processing in biomedical engineering
512-232-0815
ETC 5.122
John Hasenbein
Professor
Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering #4
Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Stochastic models; multiclass queueing networks; semiconductor wafer fabrication; Markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, stochastic optimization, and grid resilience models.
512-471-3079
ETC 5.128B
Erhan Kutanoglu
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Lehigh University
Research Interests: Applied operations research; supply chain management; manufacturing and transportation logistics; game theoretic and distributed mechanisms (e-commerce and auctions)
512-232-7194
ETC 5.114
Jinsun Lee
Assistant Professor - Joining Fall 2026
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: convexification of mixed-integer convex optimization, tractable distributed MIP algorithms, combined frameworks of optimization and machine learning, and optimization under uncertainty
Benjamin Leibowicz
Associate Professor
Banks McLaurin Fellowship in Engineering
Ph.D. Stanford University
Research Interests: Systems analysis; applied optimization; economics; energy and environment; policy analysis; technological change
512-475-9550
ETC 5.128D
Lauren Meyers
Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University
Research Interests: Mathematical epidemiology, theoretical evolutionary biology
PAT 656
Yashaswini Murthy
Assistant Professor - Joining Fall 2026
Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Developing and analyzing reinforcement learning algorithms for long-term decision-making under uncertainty, with an emphasis on average-reward and robust formulations
Purnamrita Sarkar
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: Large-scale statistical machine learning, statistical models, asymptotic theory and scalable inference algorithms for large networks
512-232-0693
WEL 5.2298B
Peter Stone
Professor
Truchard Foundation Chair in Computer Science
Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, multiagent systems, machine learning, reinforcement learning and robotics
512-471-9796
GDC 3.508
Hairong Wang
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Machine learning, data mining, applied optimization, precision medicine, healthcare analytics, clinical decision making under uncertainty
ETC 5.120
Affiliated Faculty
Omar Ghattas
Professor
Ernest & Virginia Cockrell Chair in Engineering
Ph.D. Duke University
Research Interests: Computational fluid, solid, bio, and geomechanics; inverse problems and optimization; uncertainty quantification; parallel numerical algorithms and large-scale supercomputing
512-232-4304
POB 4.236A
Adjunct Faculty
Ilyas Iyoob
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence; cloud computing; IT supply chain; network design; reliability
ETC 5.128A
