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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s (RPI) Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering will host an interactive virtual session to highlight how the field is driving technological evolution.
We would like to take a moment to honor and celebrate the remarkable contributions of our graduate students. They are the engine of our department's success, driving forward cutting-edge research, inspiring our undergraduate classes, and fostering a collaborative academic community. To our master’s and doctoral students: thank you for your relentless curiosity, your late nights in the lab and library, and the diverse perspectives you bring to our department. We are incredibly proud of everything you achieve.
Several of RPI’s faculty and PhD students recently attended and presented at the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Pictured here in the back row is Dr. Yinan Wang, Yue Zhao, Youssef Nsouli, Jason Dai, Talha Azfar, Wang Ngai Wong, Taemin Kim, Dr. Sean He, Jeremy Perez, Batuhan Celik, Carlos Morel Figueroa, John Nichols, and Chengjie Lu; in the front row is Dr. Andrew Trapp, Dr. James Bailey, Dr. Diego Moran Ramirez, Dr. Jennifer Pazour, Dr.
Professor Andrew Trapp was recently honored for his appointment as the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Endowed Chair during Honors Convocation on Saturday, October 24, 2026. Pictured here are President Martin Schmidt and Professor Andrew Trapp.
Dr. Azita Hirsa recently authored two Insight articles in PRISM Magazine (the American Society for Engineering Education’s flagship publication). When Innovation Meets Integrity was published in the Fall 2026 edition, and Let’s Talk About It: Abstract ethical principles turn into shared moments of reflection, dialogue, and real-world learning was published in the Winter 2025 edition.
Over the last 6 years, Anil Markose has been embedded with two of the most disruptive changes in technology--the rapid adoption of the public cloud, and rethinking of everything with AI. His front row seat at two of the most impacted organizations in these spaces, AWS and Oracle, gives him a unique perspective on the challenges of managing simultaneous frontier AI model deployment and workforce reskilling and deployment, while building regulatory and customer trust and enterprise security. The complexities of this tectonic shift are enormous.
Understanding and controlling the process–structure–property relationship is central to advancing manufacturing. This talk presents AI/ML methods that study manufacturing processes and material properties through physically meaningful intermediate representations.
The framework of multi-agent game-theoretic learning explores how individual agent strategies evolve in response to the strategies of others. A central question is whether these evolving strategies converge to classical solution concepts, such as Nash equilibrium.
Strategic Sharing Under Disruption
Understand Participation of Competing Firms in Supply Chain Information Sharing Under Disruption
Share when coordination gains outweigh competitive exposure.
We study the integrality gap of convex mixed-integer programs, that is, the difference between the optimal value of such a problem and the optimal value of its continuous relaxation. We study classes of convex sets whose associated optimization problem have finite integrality gap: Dirichlet convex sets, sets with full-dimensional recession cones and sets that can be approximated by polyhedral sets. In the latter two cases, we provide estimates for the value of the integrality gap.
