Decision, Risk, and Operations Seminars
The division holds brown bag lunch seminars on Thursdays to discuss research topics currently explored by its faculty and PhD students.
Also look for events in the weekly IEOR-DRO Seminar held on Tuesdays throughout the academic year. This seminar is a collaboration of two faculty groups: the DRO Division and the Engineering School's IEOR (Industrial Engineering & Operations Research) Department.
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IEOR-DRO Seminar Spring 2026 Schedule
February 17 - Paul Golz (Cornell) - IEOR/Morningside Campus
February 24 - Seth Neel (Google Research) - DRO/Manhattanville Campus
March 3 - Emma Brunskill (Stanford) - DRO/Manhattanville Campus
March 10 - Jim Dai (Cornell) - IEOR/Morningside Campus
March 24 - Yao Xie (Georgia Tech) - IEOR/Morningside Campus
March 31 - Anton Braverman (Northwestern) - DRO/Manhattanville Campus
April 7 - Alberto Del Pia (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - IEOR/Morningside Campus
April 14 - Peter Zhang (CMU) - DRO/Manhattanville Campus
April 21 - Swati Gupta (MIT) - IEOR/Morningside Campus
April 28 - Jann Spiess (Stanford) - DRO/Manhattanville Campus
Past Invited Speakers
Madeleine Udell (Stanford)
Levi DeValve (UChicago)
Katya Scheinberg (Georgia Tech)
Vincent Cohen Addad (Google Research)
Hanna Halaburda (NYU)
Alex Jacquillat (MIT)
Noah Gans (UPenn)
Adrian Vladu (CNRS)
David Pennock (Rutgers)
Clayton Thomas (RPI)
Omer Karaduman (Stanford)
Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research)
Rahul Mazumder (MIT)
Auyon Siddiq (UCLA)
Kent Quanrud (Purdue)
Ran Zhuo (Michigan)
Erol Gelenbe (Polish Acad. Science)
Mohsen Bayati (Stanford)
Andres Gomez (USC)
Zhengyuan Zhou (NYU)
Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia)
Larry Wein (Stanford)
Xi Chen (NYU)
Tauhid Zaman (Yale)
Rahul Mazumder (MIT)
Vasilis Syrgkanis (Stanford)
Ben Moseley (CMU)
Shreyas Sekar (UToronto)
Alex Belloni (Duke)
Noam Brown (OpenAI)
Dennis Zhang, (WUSTL)
Aldo Pacchiano (Boston University)