Welcome to Cornell University: Any person, any study.
Cornell offers a rich intellectual environment, with tremendous interdisciplinary flexibility, which is helpful for the mix of ORIE-relevant topics. Ithaca is a beautiful area that offers many natural wonders—Cayuga Lake, waterfalls, hiking trails, and wineries to name a few.
Being a Ph.D. student at ORIE has been one of the most challenging experiences of my professional life, but it sure has also been the most rewarding. The academic and human excellence that I have experienced here has influenced me in ways that I never imagined before. I am very grateful to my peers, ORIE's staff, and, in particular, my Ph.D. advisor, Peter Frazier, for their support and for allowing me to be a part of such a dynamic and welcoming community.
When faced with how to schedule classes during the pandemic, Cornell turned to its School of ORIE, where faculty and students live and breathe mathematical modeling, optimization, and analysis for data-driven decision-making.
The faculty in the ORIE department are friendly and accessible. Through my Ph.D., I've had the opportunity to work with excellent colleagues, and the collaborative research experiences helped me expand my expertise. The uniquely interdisciplinary program helped me understand a wide variety of topics from optimization to statistics and probability.
For me, Cornell ORIE is a great warm family. Although the pandemic moved our classes online, it didn’t stop me from forming close friendships with ORIE people all around the world. Some ORIE professors even said that I could swing by their office any time and discuss any questions I might have. Here at Cornell, we are treated as colleagues rather than students.
Sean SinclairSinclair has realized the truth of this at Cornell. “I look around the department and see how relevant so much of the work is,” he said. “COVID testing policies, classroom assignments, final exam schedules, ambulance deployment — these are all challenges people in ORIE are tackling.”
Pamela Badian-Pessot“I was not convinced I could get into Cornell, but several people at Smith (College) convinced me I should try. When I got in, it was an easy decision to come to Ithaca.”
Sam Gutekunst“It was so easy to decide to come to Cornell,especially after my visit. It was clear that people in the department liked each other and treated each other with respect. People’s doors are always open and they like to talk about ideas with any student—not just their advisees.”
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ORIE Professor Katya Scheinberg and her co-authors have received the INFORMS Simulation Society’s Outstanding Publication Award for 2021. Read more about ORIE’s Scheinberg, colleagues win INFORMS’ Best Simulation Publication Award
Researchers set out to model the probability of how often pairs of shoppers might overlap in a store – an approach that could be used to predict the transmission of COVID-19, and guide strategies to... Read more about Faster checkouts could reduce virus spread at stores
Mark Lewis, the Maxwell M. Upson Professor, has been reappointed as director of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering. His reappointment is for a two-year period from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2024. Read more about Mark Lewis reappointed ORIE director
I love that everyone at Cornell is super friendly. I also liked the fact we can develop our interest in our first year. ORIE provides the flexibility of not tying the admission offer to a specific advisor. The area around Ithaca is gorgeous with plenty of state parks and natural scenery.
What I appreciate most about ORIE is its blend of high-quality theoretical and applied research, as well as the collaborative nature of the department. Cornell's field system allows Ph.D. students to gain exposure to a wide range of disciplines outside of Operations Research, making the environment especially conducive to interdisciplinary work.
Seeing Is Believing Explore campus from anywhere (Video and virtual tour of Cornell University).
Experience the beauty and energy of Cornell’s Ithaca campus in this video. Short version (3 minutes), below.
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