News & Events
Professor Michael Ball (University of Maryland) – Quantity-Contingent Auctions and Allocation of Airport Slots
We define and investigate quantity-contingent auctions. Such auctions can be used when there exist [...]
Assistant Professor Bhavani Shanker Uppari (SMU) – Inconvenience, Liquidity Constraints, and the Adoption of Off-grid Lighting Solutions at the Bottom of the Pyramid
A significant proportion of world's population does not have access to grid-based electricity, and [...]
Associate Professor Anke van Zuylen (College of William & Mary) – Improved Tours and Paths for the Traveling Salesman: Classical Tools and Recent Advances
The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is one of the most famous and widely studied combinatorial [...]
ESD Summer Newsletter 2018
June 19th, 2018
[Click here to download the newsletter] We are excited to launch the new ESD core curriculum in [...]
Singapore Airlines App Challenge – Grand Prize
November 27th, 2017
Congratulations to ESD student Yustynn Panicker, Naunidh Bhalla (ISTD student), Lee Tze How (ISTD [...]
Singapore Airlines App Challenge – 1st Runner Up
November 7th, 2017
Congratulations to ESD students, Jarvin Ong and Justinian Siah, for being the 1st runner-up and [...]
INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JIFG) Paper Competition
October 30th, 2017
Assistant Professor Yiwei Chen's paper "Joint Pricing and Inventory Management with Strategic [...]
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