Members

Active Faculty Members

Shu Lu
Professor
Director of Admissions, M.S. Program
355 Hanes Hall
(919) 962-1048
shulu@email.unc.edu

Research interests: Variational inequalities, stochastic optimization

Gabor Pataki
Associate Professor
307 Hanes Hall
(919) 962-3838
pataki@email.unc.edu

Research interests: Convex Programming, Integer Programming

Quoc Tran-Dinh
Assistant Professor
333 Hanes Hall
(919) 843-6023
quoctd@email.unc.edu

Personal Website
Research interests: Numerical Optimization: Theory and Algorithms for Convex
Optimization and Non-convex Continuous Optimization

Aleksandr Touzov
PhD – INSTORE
Hanes Hall
B-4
touzov@live.unc.edu

Advisor: Prof. Gabor Pataki

Nhan (Nate) Pham H.
PhD – Operations Research
Hanes Hall
B-48
nhanph@live.unc.edu

Advisor: Prof. Quoc Tran-Dinh

Research Area: Stochastic Gradient-Based Methods

Deyi Liu
PhD – Operations Research
Hanes Hall
B-5
deyi@live.unc.edu

Advisor: Prof. Quoc Tran-Dinh

Research Area: Convex Optimization

involving Smoothness Structures

Melody (Yuzixuan) Zhu
PhD – Operations Research
Hanes Hall
B-30
zyzx@live.unc.edu

Advisors: Prof. Gabor Pataki and Prof. Quoc Tran-Dinh

Research Topics: Convex Optimization

Hongsheng Liu
PhD – Operations Research
Hanes Hall
B-36
hsliu@live.unc.edu

Advisor: Prof. Shu Lu

Yang Yu
PhD – INSTORE
Data Scientist at Google
yy0324@live.unc.edu

Advisors: Prof. Amarjit Budhiraja and Prof. Shu Lu

Tianxiao Sun
PhD – Operations ResearchData Scientist at Lowe’s Co.
tianx.sun@gmail.com

Advisors: Prof. Shu Lu and Prof. Quoc Tran-Dinh

Michael Lamm
PhD – Operations Research
SAS Inc

Advisor: Prof. Shu Lu

Sudhanshu Shekhar Singh
PhD – Operations Research
IBM Research, India

Advisor: Prof. Shu Lu

Liang Yin
PhD – Operations Research
FedEx

Advisors: Prof. Yufeng Liu and Prof. Shu Lu

Bala Krishnamoorthy
PhD – Operations Research
Department of Mathematics
Washington State University

Advisor: Prof. Gabor Pataki

Minghui Liu
PhD – Operations Research
SAS Inc.

Advisor: Prof. Gabor Pataki