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Research
At the MIT ORC, we highly value research and the important role it plays in operations research and analytics. That’s why our students are actively engaged in research from the start.
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New research adds evidence that learning a successful strategy for approaching a task doesn’t prevent further exploration, even if doing so reduces performance.
Assistant Professor César Terrer discusses pioneering volcano research to track carbon dynamics in tropical forests.
On February 27, 2025 at 4:15 pm till 5:15 pm
Entry-Specific Matrix Estimation under Arbitrary Sampling Patterns through the Lens of Network Flows
2/27/25 | 4:15pm | E51-376 Christina Yu Assistant ProfessorCornell University, Operations Research and Information Engineering Abstract: Matrix completion is a powerful tool for predicting missing values in data, with applications…