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GAMMA Lab Current and Former Members

Current Ph.D. Students

  • Rafal Muszalski, M.S.
  • Bingxin Chen, M.S.

Graduated Ph.D Students

  • Yan Cheng Hsu, Ph.D., Co-advised with R. Batta (Graduated: 2017). Dissertation: Mathematical Models for Solving Petroleum Replenishment and Routing Problems. Current Position: Ford Motor Company.
  • Jessica Dorismond Ph.D., Co-advised with R. Batta (Graduated: 2018). Dissertation: Data-Driven Models for Promoting Impulse Items in Supermarkets. Current Position: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
  • Ningji Wei, Ph.D. (Graduated: 2020). Dissertation: Integer Programming Methods for Boolean Interdiction Games. Current Position: Texas Tech University, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor.
  • Cai Gao, Ph.D. (Graduated: 2020). Dissertation: On Routing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Surveillance and Reconnaissance Activities. Current Position: Walmart Global Tech.
  • John E. Fontecha, Ph.D., Co-advised with A. Nikolaev (Graduated: 2021). Dissertation: Mathematical Models for the Design of Policies to Promote Behavior/Product Adoption. Current Position: American Airlines.
  • Fatemeh Monsapour, Ph.D. Co-advised with R. Batta (Graduated: 2022). Dissertation: On the Development and Analysis of a Comprehensive Police Patrolling Model. Current Position: Global Summit Consulting.
  • Rishabh Bhandawat, Ph.D. Co-advised with S. Casucci.(Graduated: 2022). Dissertation: Blood Supply Chain Networks: Framework and Models to Improve Blood Product Utilization. Current Position: Smurfit Westrock.
  • Hadi Feizollahi, Ph.D. (Graduated: 2025) Dissertation: Developing solution approaches for Multi-Dimensional Assignment Problem and Orienteering Problem with Stochastic Profits. Current Position: Deloitte.
  • Svetlana Riabova, Ph.D. (Graduated: 2025) Dissertation: Mathematical models for emerging pricing applications. Current Position: ISO New England.

Former ABD-Ph.D Students

  • Demetrios V. Papazaharias. Current Poition: Linde.

Master's Students

  • Bingxin Chen, Graduated: Fall 2025. Thesis title: A Branch-and-Price Framework for Time-Sensitive Request Routing in Terrestrial-Satellite Communication Networks
  • Samir NiƱo, Graduated: Spring 2022.
  • Michael Young, Graduated: Spring 2022.
  • Luca Wrabetz, Graduated: Spring 2020.
  • Ningji Wei, Graduated: Spring 2016. Thesis title: Integer Programming Formulations for the Minimum Edge Blocker Problem Respect to Minimum Spanning Trees.
  • Medha Nemade, Graduated: Spring 2016. Thesis title: A Mathematical Framework for Analyzing Vulnerabilities in Large-Scale Urban Evacuation Plans.
  • Manjunath Holaykoppa Nanjunda Jois, Co-advised with A. Nikolaev, Graduated: Spring 2015. Thesis title: A Column Generation Approach to Solve Multi-Team Influence Maximization Problem for Social Lottery Design