Ted Ralphs

• Student Supervision
• Student Awards

Student Supervision

• Ph.D Dissertation Advisor and Committee Chair
  • Sean Kelley, ISE, TBD.
  • Hesam Shaelaie, ISE, TBD.
  • Samira Fallah, ISE, TBD.
  • Yu Xie, ISE, TBD.
  • Suresh Bolusani, ISE, TBD.
  • Jiadong Wang, ISE, Advances in Integrated Decomposition Methods for Integer Programming.
  • Sahar Tahernajad, ISE, Two-stage Mixed Integer Stochastic Bilevel Linear Optimization, December 2019.
  • Aykut Bulut, ISE, Computational Methods for Discrete Conic Optimization Problems, December 2017.
  • Jiadong Wang, ISE, Advances in Integrated Decomposition Methods for Integer Programming.
  • Anahita Hassanzadeh, ISE, Two-stage Stochastic Mixed Integer Optimization, September 2015.
  • Scott Denegre, ISE, Interdiction and Discrete Bilevel Linear Programming, May 2011 (Dissertation).
  • Matthew Galati, ISE, Decomposition in Integer Linear Programming, December 2009 (Dissertation).
  • Menal Guzelsoy, ISE, Dual Methods in Mixed Integer Linear Programming, December 2009 (Dissertation).
  • Zeliha Akca, ISE, Integrated Location, Routing, and Scheduling Problems: Models and Algorithms, December 2009 (Dissertation).
  • Ashutosh Mahajan, ISE, On Selecting Disjunctions in Mixed Integer Linear Programming, May 2009 (Dissertation).
  • Yan Xu, ISE, Scalable Algorithms for Parallel Tree Search, December 2007 (Dissertation).
• Ph.D Dissertation Committee Chair
  • Jerry Shen, ISE, Solving Multi-stage Stochastic Linear Programs on the Computational Grid.
  • Jim Ostrowski, ISE, Symmetry in Mixed Integer Programming, May 2009.
  • Wasu Glankwamdee, ISE, Branch and Bound on Computational Grids, August 2008.
  • Kumar Abhishek, ISE, Topics in Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming, May 2008.
• Ph.D Dissertation Committee Member
  • Sertalp Cay, ISE, TBD.
  • Seyedalireza Yektamaram, ISE, TBD .
  • Sambhawa Priya, CSE, TBD.
  • Zhengxiang Pan, CSE, Towards a Global Scale Semantic Web.
  • Xiaocun Que, ISE, Randomized Algorithms for Nonconvex Nonsmooth Optimization, May 2015.
  • Julio Goez, ISE, Mixed Integer Second Order Cone Optimization, Disjunctive Conic Cuts: Theory and Experiments, August 2013.
  • Tolga Seyhan, ISE, Network Design Under Competition, May 2012.
  • Cagri Latifoglu, ISE, Models for Production Planning and Power Procurement Portfolios, May 2012.
  • Udom Janjarassuk, ISE, Using the Computational Grid for the Effective Solution of Stochastic Programs, May 2009.
  • Qing Ye, CSE, Dynamic Multicast and Time Synchronization in Wide-area Sensor Networks, December 2007.
  • Brian Heinold, Mathematics, Sum List Coloring and Choosability, May 2006.
  • Joao Goncalves, ISE, Extensions of von Neumann’s Algorithm for Linear Programming, May 2005.
  • Lilong Huang, Chemical Engineering, Constrained Closed-loop Optimal Control, May 2005.
  • Jinlong Ban, ISE, Lehigh University, The Generalized Parallel Replacement Problem, December 2003.
• M.S. Advisor
  • Shelley Heist, ISE, Lehigh University, Constraint Programming and Sourcing Problems, May 2003.
  • Andrew Hofmann, ISE, Lehigh University, The Mixed Postman Problem, May 2003.

Student Awards

• Suresh Bolusani, Van Hoesen Family Best Publication Award, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, April 2020.
• Sahar Tahernejad, Best Poster Award (Honorable mention), Mixed Integer Programming Workshop, Clemson University, June 2018.
• Sahar Tahernejad, Van Hoesen Family Best Publication Award, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, April 2017.
• INFORMS Transportation and Logistics Society Dissertation Prize
  • Zeliha Akca, 2010 (runner-up)
• ISE graduate student of the year
  • Matthew Galati, 2003
  • Menal Guzelsoy, 2004
• Lehigh Engineering Ingenuity Award for Graduate Research and Scholarship
  • Matthew Galati, 2004
  • Menal Guzelsoy, 2005
• First Open Contest of Parallel Programming
  • Yan Xu and Ted Ralphs, First Place, 2007
• Computational Interface for Operations Research Open Source Coding Contest
  • Yan Xu, First Place, 2003