Post-Docs

Federico Battista is a postdoctoral researcher at Lehigh University's Department of Industrial and System Engineering (ISE). He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Rome "Sapienza". He earned his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from the University of L'Aquila (Italy). He is a member of the Computational Optimization Research at the Lehigh (COR@L) group.
His research interests are in Mixed-Integer Bilevel Optimization (MIBLP) algorithms and software development, as well as Semidefinite Programming (SDP) algorithms and their application in Combinatorial Optimization.

Tommaso Giovannelli is a postdoctoral researcher at Lehigh's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering working with Luis Nunes Vicente since June 2020. Giovannelli received his Ph.D. in Operations Research in May 2021 from Sapienza University of Rome, where he obtained his BSc and MSc in Management Engineering in 2015 and 2017, respectively. From January 2020 to May 2021 he stayed at Lehigh ISE as a visiting scholar. Giovannelli's methodological research interests include nonlinear optimization, derivative-free optimization, and simulation-based optimization. His main application areas concern healthcare operations, machine learning, and transportation systems. He won a doctoral award from the EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS) of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) at the Doctoral Consortium ORAHS 2019, Karlsruhe, for his research proposal titled A simulation-based optimization approach for the improvement of the emergency department management.

Xin Jiang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Lehigh University. He is also affiliated with the Program in the Foundations and Applications of Mathematical Optimization and Data Science (MODS). Xin received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in June 2022, where he was advised by Lieven Vandenberghe. He obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering at the University of Hong Kong in 2015, and an M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA in 2017. Xin's research interests broadly include theory and algorithms for optimization, especially semidefinite programming. He designs, analyzes, and implements efficient and scalable optimization algorithms for various applications from engineering, machine learning, and data science.

Nimita is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University since June 2023. Nimita received her Ph.D. in 2022 jointly from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Monash University where she was advised by Prof. Vishnu Narayanan and Dr. James Saunderson. She was a postdoctoral fellow at ICERM, Brown University from September 2022 to May 2023. Nimita is broadly interested in memory-efficient techniques as applied to large-scale convex optimization problems, integer and combinatorial optimization, and non-smooth optimization.
Ph.D. Students
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Advisor: Luis F. Zuluaga Lehigh ID: bra216 |
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Advisor: Larry Snyder
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Name: Griffin Kent
Advisor: Luis Nunes Vicente
Lehigh ID: gdk220
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Advisor: Xiu Yang
Lehigh ID: bil215
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![]() Name: Kangye Li
Advisor: Larry Snyder
Lehigh ID: kal318
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![]() Name: Shutian Li
Advisor: Karmel S. Shehadeh
Lehigh ID: shl919
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![]() Name: Sharmine Akther Liza
Advisor: Larry Snyder
Lehigh ID: shl622
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![]() Name: Rodolfo Alexander Quintero Ospina
Advisor: Luis F. Zuluaga
Lehigh ID: roq219
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Advisor: Larry Snyder
Lehigh ID: bjr221
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Advisors: Larry Snyder and Ted Ralphs
Lehigh ID: mos519
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Advisor: Aida Khajavirad
Lehigh ID: hus221
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![]() Name: Oumaima Sohab
Advisor: Luis Nunes Vicente
Lehigh ID: ous219
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![]() Name: Secil Sozuer
Advisor: Robert Storer
Lehigh ID: ses515
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![]() Name: Yakun Wang
Advisor: Aida Khajavirad
Lehigh ID: yaw220
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Advisor: Daniel Robinson
Lehigh ID: chw222
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