The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research is proud to celebrate the recent achievements of two Ph.D. students whose work has been recognized at major academic conferences in their respective fields.
IEOR Ph.D. Student Matías Villagra Honored at Mixed Integer Programming Workshop
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research celebrates Ph.D. student Matías Villagra's achievement at the Mixed Integer Programming Workshop. Villagra received first place in the Best Poster Award and the Popular Poster Award for his research on "Symmetries and Lift-and-Project Hierarchies." Villagra conducted the award-winning research with co-authors Yuri Faenza (IEOR Associate Professor), José Verschae, and Víctor Verdugo.
The Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) Workshop is a single-track workshop highlighting the latest trends in integer programming and discrete optimization.
IEOR Ph.D. Student Chengpiao Huang Receives Best Student Presentation Award
|IEOR Ph.D. student Chengpiao Huang has been honored with the Best Student Presentation Award at the 38th New England Statistics Symposium (NESS).
Huang received this recognition for presenting his paper titled "Uncertainty Quantification for LLM-Based Survey Simulations," conducted in collaboration with co-authors IEOR Assistant Professor Kaizheng Wang and Yuhang Wu.
Huang’s research focuses on statistical machine learning and data-driven decision-making. Recently, he has been working on learning under distribution shift. He was recently selected as a 2025–2026 Deming Doctoral Fellow.
