I am fortunate to have the opportunity to work with many fantastic students. Here’s my current research group:

Current PhD Students and Postdocs: 

  • Jonathan Zhou (Starting Fall 2025: ORC, MIT (jointly coadvised with Rahul Mazumdar))
  • Thomas Daillak (Started Fall 2024: ORC, MIT)
  • Madeleine Pollack (Started Fall 2023: ORC, MIT)
  • Jai Moondra (Started Spring 2021 at Georgia Tech, ACO/CS PhD Program (jointly advised with Mohit Singh))

Here are some pictures from our group hangouts and outings.

Current Masters and Undergraduate Students: 

  • Milani Chatterji-Len (LGO, MIT)
  • Ju Young (Jessie) Lee (MEng EECS, MIT)
  • Bhargavi Lanka (MBAn, MIT)
  • Prateek Gautam (MBAn, MIT)
  • Alec Zhu (Math UG, MIT –> Princeton PhD ORFE)

Current Capstone Advisees: 

  • Atharva Navarthe (MBAn MIT, Faculty Advisor for Capstone Project with Comcast)
  • Andrez Gomez (MBAn MIT, Faculty Advisor for Capstone with Comcast)
  • Jeiyi Wang (MBAn MIT, Faculty Advisor for Capstone with Comcast)
  • Yuki Yu (MBAn MIT, Faculty Advisor for Capstone with Comcast)

Prospective Students: 

I like to hire 1-2 students per year in my research group. If you are already an MIT student (irrespective of the program), please contact me directly. An ideal candidate for my lab would have had some exposure to optimization, algorithm design, and machine learning (it’s okay if you don’t know all three).

I am affiliated with the Operations Research Center (ORC) at MIT, and LIDS at MIT. Apply to these PhD programs and mention my name in your application if you’d like to work with me.

If you are interested in an internship, you can email me directly. If you have taken courses in optimization or algorithms and have a decent GPA, this will help.

Past PhDs, Masters, and Postdocs:

  • Jad Salem (ACO/Math PhD Georgia Tech –> Assistant Professor of Mathematics, US Naval Academy)
  • Reuben Tate (ACO/Math PhD Georgia Tech –> Los Alamos National Labs)
  • Hassan Mortagy (OR/ISyE PhD Georgia Tech –> OR Scientist at Roadie Inc./UPS)
  • Ghazanfar Yezdan (MBAn MIT with Capstone with Cognira –> Consultant at IQVIA)
  • Rory Wilson (MBAn MIT with Capstone with Cognira –> Data Scientist at TaxAct)
  • Seth Chatterton (MBAn MIT with Capstone with Accenture –> ML Scientist at Wayfair)
  • Pranav Shankar Girish (MBAn MIT with Capstone with Accenture –> Data Scientist at Palantir)
  • Yichen (Eric) Yu (MFin, MIT)
  • Cameron Dahan (MFin, MIT –> Squarepoint Capital)
  • Raghav Manoharan Jayanthi (MBAn/MIT –> Data Scientist at C3.ai)
  • Mehrdad Ghadiri (postdoc, MIT)
  • Brandon Augustino (postdoc MIT –> Senior Associate, Quantum Computing at JPMorgan Chase & Co.)