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YinzOR2022

After one year of postponement and one year of virtual conference due to Covid, the CMU INFORMS Student Chapter was very excited to host the 5th YinzOR Conference in person....

Industry Panel

The CMU INFORMS Chapter hosted three alumni currently working with the Amazon Modeling and Optimization (MOP) Group. Dr. Amitabh Sinha was a tenured professor of Operations at Michigan Ross and...

David Shmoys: Algorithmic Tools for Congressional Districting

The American winner-take-all congressional district system empowers politicians to engineer electoral outcomes by manipulating district boundaries. To date, computational solutions mostly focus on drawing unbiased maps by ignoring political and...

Podcast: Optimizing You Episode 4

Dr. Nock is an Assistant Professor of Engineering & Public Policy and Civil & Environmental Engineering at CMU. She received her PhD in IEOR in 2019 from UMass Amherst, and...

Podcast: Optimizing You Episode 3

Chris Villi has worked at FedEx Ground over the past 21 years. Chris currently holds the role of Operations Research Principal - providing technical leadership surrounding coordination of OR efforts,...

Ice Skating!

The CMU INFORMS Chapter met up with the University of Pittsburgh INFORMS Chapter to go Ice Skating at the PPG Ice Skating Rink in downtown Pittsburgh. We went around the...