Recent PhD Graduates

Vanessa Sawkmie, PhD ’26

Assistant Professor

BNF Railway

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Harshit Kothari, PhD ’26

Applied Scientist II

Microsoft

Jah’inaya Parker, PhD ’26

Technical Systems Analyst

MIT Lincoln Lab

Fernando Acosta Perez, PhD ’26

Assistant Professor

University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez

Qinyang He, PhD ’26

Applied Scientist

Amazon

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Vipul Bansal, PhD ’26

Assistant Professor

University of Florida ISE

Ashley Peper, PhD ’25

Faculty Member

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Changyu Gao, PhD ’25

Applied Scientist

Amazon

Ramsey Rossmann, PhD ’25

Senior Engineer Transmission Planning

Madison Gas and Electric

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Dekun Zhou, PhD ’25

Data Scientist

Bayer

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Anna Konstant, PhD ’25

Senior Human Factors Engineer

Baxter International

Rebecca Alcock, PhD ’25

Postdoctoral Fellow

Centre for Global Engineering

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Yifan Lu, PhD ’25

Operations Research Scientist

DoorDash

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Ari Smith, PhD ’25

Assistant Professor of Computer, Information, and Data Sciences

University of Wisconsin-River Falls

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Oliver Li, PhD ’25

Applied Scientist

Amazon

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Eric Stratman, PhD ’25

Lecturer-in-Discipline in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

Columbia University

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Ye Kwon Huh, PhD ’25

Quantitative Analyst

Wells Fargo

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Weijun Shen, PhD ’25

Assistant Professor

School of Engineering & Engineering Technology

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

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Ashley Peper, PhD ’25

Faculty Member

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point