For patients, every hour waiting for surgery feels endless. @viterbischool.usc.edu found a way to help — building data models that cut delays, ease hospital congestion, & improve access to care.

I was born to become a professor, and I'm incredibly honored & grateful to continue contributing to our field as the WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of ISE at USC. I'm committed to advancing our research and educational mission at USC, and I'm thankful to everyone who makes this journey meaningful

Looking forward to presenting our recent work on improving fairness in graduate medical education at the Virtual Discrete Optimization Talks (DOTs) tomorrow. We’ll share insights on how equity-promoting optimization techniques can address fairness concerns in medical resident training.

Very grateful to AFOSR for their support, and to my students whose contributions have shaped this proposal and my broader research program. This award provides an exciting opportunity to advance our work on optimization under uncertainty, and I look forward to sharing our future contributions.

I am super happy to share that my proposal, “Advancing Contextual Stochastic Optimization via Distributionally Robust Optimization Techniques,” has been recommended for sponsorship by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Mathematical Optimization program @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu

Congratulations to my brilliant PhD student, Shutian Li, on the acceptance of her paper, "Equity-promoting Integer Programming Approaches For Medical Resident Rotation Scheduling," in Health Care Management Science (co-authored with me, Prof. Frank E. Curtis, and Dr. Beth R. Hochman).

Thanks to Greta Harrison for writing this news item about our recent paper and to my amazing co-authors, Dr. Padman, Dr. Tsang, Dr. Kilic (MD) @viterbischool.usc.edu @usc.edu

viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2025/09...

Kicking off my first semester with the Trojans family @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu
Wishing everyone a happy and successful Fall semester. #FightOn

Thrilled to be joining @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu and the Daniel J. Epstein Department of ISE later this week as the Gabilan Assistant Professor of ISE. Excited to continue building, inspiring, elevating, and pushing boundaries. Onward and upward #FightOn!

Happy to share that I've officially become a U.S. citizen! I'm deeply grateful for everything this country has given me—from higher education and a career to lifelong friendships, family, and unconditional love. I've been a good human and citizen, and I will continue to be.
#NewUSCitizen

*formulating and solving :-)

Our paper, A Unified Framework for Analyzing and Optimizing a Class of Convex Fairness Measures, has been accepted in Operations Research.This paper, joint work w Dr.Tsang, presents a new step toward mulating and solving fairness-promoting optimization problems
shorturl.at/hmMq4 @informs.bsky.social

Proud doesn’t even begin to cover it. Congratulations, Dr. Man Yiu (Tim) Tsang. It's been an honor to be part of your journey.

3/3 Dr.Tsang is the first PhD student from my group to defend and complete all degree requirements, and this milestone is the most meaningful and rewarding achievement of my career so far. It has been an honor and a true pleasure working with him, and I am incredibly proud of all he has accomplished

2/3 His work has been published in Operations Research, EJOR, INFORMS Journal on Optimization, and Operations Research Letters. Special thanks to Prof. Frank E. Curtis, Prof. Larry Snyder, and Prof. Henry Lam for serving on Tim's committee

1/3 Congratulations to my first PhD student, Dr. Man Yiu (Tim) Tsang, on today's outstanding dissertation defense! Dr. Tsang's dissertation, which includes 7 chaps, pushes the theoretical and computational boundaries of stochastic and robust optimization methodologies and their applications…

Join us for the Robust Optimization Webinar (#ROW) this Friday, May 2, at 15:00 (CET).

Speaker: Francesca Maggioni (University of Bergamo)

Title: Sampling and Bounding Methods for Multistage Robust and Distributionally Robust Optimization

More information: sites.google.com/view/row-ser...

I’m looking for a Postdoc to join my research group at the of Southern California @usc.edu (we’re moving to USC this August!) to work on exciting projects in stochastic and distributionally robust optimization, with real-world applications in healthcare, FL, and transportation. shorturl.at/5L4Ne

Just a few days left to submit those nominations

especially those from underrepresented groups. I hope we move away from this narrow metric in the future.

3/3 Moreover, citations take time to accumulate and are influenced by factors beyond research quality (you know). They can reinforce disparities, favoring well-established researchers while overlooking equally valuable contributions from early career researchers, ..

2/3 As an early-career scholar, I find it unfair when some folks use citation counts to measure success or research quality. Journal review and publication take a very long time (at least for me, each paper takes almost 1.5-2 years from submission to publication).

1/3 I reached a minor milestone today—my citation count hit 500 this morning! I started my career with just one published journal paper (+ some preprints) and around two citations in 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

With @karmelshehadeh.bsky.social and Milos Kopa, we are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the triennial Dupačová-Prékopa Student Paper Prize in Stochastic Programming. Nominations are due March 25. For details about the prize and nomination process, see icsp2025.org/student-pape...