Recent ACO Graduates

2018

Joseph Briggs
with Wesley Pegden
Post-doc at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Stylianos Despotakis
with R. Ravi
Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong
Yang Jiao
with R. Ravi
Boeing
Kazachkov Aleksandr
with Egon Balas
Post-doc at Polytechnique Montréal

2017

Jennifer Iglesias
with R. Ravi
Waymo
Tony Johansson
with Alan Frieze
Post-doc at Uppsala University
Misha Lavrov
with Po-Shen Loh
Post-doc at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jeremy Karp
with R. Ravi
Lyft

2016

Zilin Jiang
with Boris Bukh
Post-doc at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
⇒ Post-doc at MIT
Sercan Yildiz
with Gerard Cornuejols
Post-doc at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2015

Marla Slusky
with Willem-Jan van Hoeve
Dynamic Science Lab, Infor Co.

2014

Brian Kell
with Willem-Jan van Hoeve
Google

2013

Deepak Bal
with Alan Frieze
Post-doc at Ryerson University
⇒ Assistant Professor at Montclair State University
David Bergman
with John Hooker
and Willem-Jan van Hoeve
Assistant Professor at University of Connecticut
Qihang Lin
with Javier Peña
Assistant Professor at University of Iowa
Marco Molinaro
with Gérard Cornuéjols
Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech
⇒ Assistant Professor at PUC-RIo, Brazil
Charalampos Tsourakakis
with Alan Frieze
Post-doc at Brown
⇒ Assistant Professor at Boston University

2011

Andrea Qualizza
with Egon Balas
Amazon
Amin Sayedi
with R. Ravi
Marketing, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
⇒ Assistant Professor at University of Washington
Zelealem Yilma
with Oleg Pikhurkho
Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire d'Informatique Algorithmique: Fondements et Applications, Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII)
⇒ Assistant teaching professor at Carnegie Mellon Univeristy Qatar

2010

Amitabh Basu
with Gérard Cornuéjols
Post-doc at Department of Mathematics, UC Davis
⇒ Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University
Samid Hoda
Christopher Wallace
with Egon Balas
Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Sciences, East Tennessee State University

2009

Páll Melsted
with Alan Frieze
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago
⇒ Assistant Professor at University of Iceland
Viswanath Nagarajan
with R. Ravi
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
David Offner
with Oleg Pikhurko
Department of Mathematics/Computer Science, Westminster College
Anureet Saxena Axioma
Karl Wimmer
with Ryan O'Donnell
Department of Computer Science, Duquesne University

2008

Barbara Anthony
with Anupam Gupta
Southwestern University
Prasad Chebolu
with Alan Frieze
Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool
Latife Genç Kaya
with John Hooker
Vineet Goyal
with R. Ravi
Postdoctoral Associate, Operations Research Center, MIT (currently at Columbia University)
Mohit Singh
with R. Ravi
Microsft Research, Cambridge, MA

2007

Hubert Chan
with Anupam Gupta
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (currently at the University of Hong Kong)

2006

Kelley Burgin
with Alan Frieze
National Security Agency, Washington, D.C.
Abraham Flaxman
with Alan Frieze
Microsoft Research, Theory Group (currently at University of Washington, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation)
David Kravitz
with Thomas Bohman
National Security Agency, Washington, D.C.
Teresa Sousa
with Oleg Pikhurko
Department of Mathematics, New University of Lisbon

2005

Konstantin Andreev
with Bruce Maggs
D.E. Shaw

2004

Paul Komarek
with Andrew W. Moore
Postdoctoral Fellow, Auton Lab, Robotics Institute, CMU
Amitabh Sinha
with R. Ravi
University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, MI

2003

Geoffrey Atkinson
with Alan Frieze
Department of Mathematics, Seton Hill Unioversity
Jochen Köenemann
with R. Ravi
Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Canada

2002

Ojas Parekh
with R. Ravi
Emory University, Atlanta, GA (current at Sandia)
Michael Perregaard
with Egon Balas
Dash Optimization, United Kingdom (now FICO)

2001

Bjarni V. Halldórsson
with R. Ravi
Celera Genomics, Rockville, MD (currently at Reykjavík University)
Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson
with John N. Hooker
Frisk Software International, Reykjavvík, Iceland

2000

Goran Konjevod
with R. Ravi
Department of Computer Science, Arizona State University

1999

Bertrand Guenin
with Gérard Cornuéjols
Department of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology (currently at the University of Waterloo)
Lei Zhao
with Alan Frieze
Microsoft

1998

Milind Dawande
with Egon Balas
and Gérard Cornuéjols
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (now at the University of Texas at Dallas)
Ljubomir Perkovic
with Bruce Reed & Dana Scott
Computer Science Department, Drexel University
Andréa Richa
with Bruce Maggs
Computer Science and Engineering Department, Arizona State University
Daniel Tunkelang
with Daniel Sleator
Endeca

1997

George Christopher
with Michael Trick
Department of Mathematics, Rochester Institute of Technology
Giuseppe Lancia
with Egon Balas & R. Ravi
Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, Italy (currently at the University of Udine (currently at the University of Udinee)
Neil Simonetti
with Egon Balas
Division of Mathematics and Science, Bryn Athyn College of the New Church
Yury Smirnov
with Manuela Veloso
Red Pepper Software, San Mateo, CA
Santosh Vempala
with Avrim Blum
College of Computing, Georgia Tech

1996

Hui Chen
with Alan Frieze
Credit Suisse First Boston, New York, NY 10010
Bill Niehaus
with Egon Balas
SRA (consulting company), Washington D.C.
Gabor Pataki
with Egon Balas
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1995

Jon Aronson
with Alan Frieze
National Security Agency, Washington, D.C.
Robert Carr
with Egon Balas &
Gerald Thompson
Sandia, Albuquerque, NM

1994

Mike Molloy
with Alan Frieze
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Shmuel Ur
with Michael Trick
IBM Israel
Kristina Vušković
with Gérard Cornuéjols
Department of Computer Science, Leeds University, UK

Ajai Kapoor
with Gérard Cornuéjols
Venkatesh Natarajan
with Thomas Bohman
Google
Michael Picollelli
with Thomas Bohman
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