Sherrerd Hall

Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Teaching and research in Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) focus on foundations of data science, probabilistic modeling, and optimal decision-making under uncertainty, with applications in economics and finance, energy and the environment, healthcare management, physical and biological sciences, social networks, and transportation. The graduate and undergraduate programs provide strong technical grounding in statistics, stochastics, and optimization, which are central in the analysis of massive datasets that arise in areas as diverse as the human genome and financial markets, and for applications ranging from clinical trials to robotics.

News

Graphic with text "Commendation for Outstanding Teaching".

Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

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Tools to navigate an uncertain world: ORFE department celebrates a quarter century

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Risk science brings reliability to changing energy grids

Teaching Awards 2025.

Engineering faculty honored for outstanding teaching, service and mentorship

Class Day awards celebrate graduates’ outstanding leadership, research and service

Innovation funds support advances in artificial intelligence, bioengineering, materials science and more

Events

December 03

4:30 pm

Optimal Control and Proximal Optimal Transport Divergences for Robust Machine Learning

Faculty

Amir Ali Ahmadi

Rene Carmona

Matias D. Cattaneo

Jianqing Fan

Boris Hanin

Jason Klusowski

Alain Kornhauser

Sanjeev Kulkarni

William Massey

John Mulvey

Elizaveta Rebrova

Ronnie Sircar

H. Mete Soner

Portrait of Bartolomeo Stellato

Bartolomeo Stellato

Ludovic Tangpi