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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fully Funded Ph.D. Student Positions in the
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at RPI<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fall 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Applications are invited for Ph.D. studies in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research in the
</span><a href="https://ise.rpi.edu/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (ISE) at
</span><a href="https://www.rpi.edu/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (RPI). We seek students with a strong background in engineering, mathematics,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ph.D. students will be provided with tuition and a stipend to support their research and education. All applications received by
<b>January 1<sup>st</sup></b>, 2024 will receive full consideration. Later applications will be considered until all positions are filled.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Faculty have a diverse set of research interests and focus on topics in supply chain management, discrete and online optimization, and game theory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Specific Research Areas Include:</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Capacity Allocation in Service Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Disaster Preparation and Response<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Heuristics for ML-Driven Optimization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Last Mile Logistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mixed Integer Programming<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Optimization for Statistics and ML<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Physics-Informed Methods for Online Optimization/Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Supply Chain Resilience<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Voting and Mechanism Design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interested candidates are encouraged to apply to the
</span><a href="https://ise.rpi.edu/programs/phd-decision-sciences-and-engineering-systems"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Decision Science and Engineering Systems Ph.D. program</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.
In your Personal Statement, please indicate your research interest and which </span>
<a href="https://ise.rpi.edu/people/faculty"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ISE faculty</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> that you are interested in working with. More information on the application process can
be found here: </span><a href="https://admissions.rpi.edu/graduate"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://admissions.rpi.edu/graduate</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For more information, the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering will be hosting a
<b>webinar</b> for potential students on <b>December 18<sup>th</sup> at 9:00am EST</b>. Ph.D. application fees will be waived for webinar attendees. To register for the webinar please visit
</span><a href="https://apply.rpi.edu/register/DSES2023"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://apply.rpi.edu/register/DSES2023</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Any questions can be submitted through
</span><a href="https://forms.gle/6M8S8owKdTeMMdHJ6"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">this link</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">About the University and City</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: RPI is a private research university in Troy, New York. Established
in 1824, RPI is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere. RPI is organized into six main schools which contain 37 departments, with an emphasis on science and technology. It is classified as “R1: Doctoral
Universities: Very High Research Activity” and recognized for its degree programs in engineering, computing, business and management, information technology, the sciences, design, and liberal arts. The main campus is in the New York capital region within
175 miles of New York City, Boston, and Montreal (approximately 3-hour drive). <span style="color:#2E333B">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F4E79;mso-ligatures:none">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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