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
Chevron Centennial Fellowship in Engineering 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
Associate Professor
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
Associate Professor
Fluor Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Engineering No. 2
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Robust and adaptive optimization and control; statistical learning; applications in telecommunications; applications in air traffic control
512-471-9269
EER 6.820
Dragan Djurdjanovic
Associate Professor
Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellowship No. 3
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
Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Stochastic models; multiclass queueing networks; semiconductor wafer fabrication
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
Benjamin Leibowicz
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University
Research Interests: Energy economics, technological change, energy and climate policy analysis, integrated assessment modeling, industrial organization and innovation
ETC 5.128D
Lauren Meyers
Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University
Research Interests: Mathematical epidemiology, theoretical evolutionary biology
PAT 656
Evdokia Nikolova
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Risk analysis from an algorithmic perspective arising in stochastic optimization, networks, economics and complex systems
EER 6.808
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
GDC 7.504
Peter Stone
Professor
David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship In Computer Sciences
Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, multiagent systems, machine learning, reinforcement learning and robotics
GDC 3.508
Affiliated Faculty
Omar Ghattas
Professor
John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Computational Geosciences
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
ACE 4.236A
Adjunct Faculty
Mehmet Candas
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests: Applied optimization; decision support systems; supply chain and inventory control
ETC 5.128C
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
