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ISE announces the release of </span><span style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-style:italic">Practical Nonconvex Nonsmooth Optimization</span><span style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(64,63,66)">, a new book by ISE faculty members Frank E. Curtis and
Daniel P. Robinson. Published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the book provides a comprehensive yet accessible treatment of optimization problems involving continuous functions that may be nonconvex, nonsmooth, or both.</span><span style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(64,63,66)">Written with both students and practitioners in mind, the book emphasizes practical relevance while maintaining a strong theoretical foundation.</span><span style="font-size:15px">
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<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(45,49,51)">Lehigh's Aida Khajavirad wins a $700K ONR award in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0" align="justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">L</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,63,66)">ehigh ISE is pleased to
announce that Associate Professor </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-weight:normal">Aida Khajavirad</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,63,66)">
has been awarded a research grant from the Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research, under the Mathematical and Resource Optimization program. The three-year project titled
</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-style:italic">Binary polynomial optimization through a hypergraph theoretic lens: theory and algorithms</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,63,66)">
will run from October 2025 through September 2028. The total award is $700,000, with $350,000 allocated to Lehigh University. This is a two-PI collaborative grant submitted in parallel through the two participating universities; the partner PI is Professor
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two new courses focused on the integration of AI into IE and OR, reinforcing the department’s leadership in preparing students and professionals for a rapidly evolving technological landscape. The first offering,
</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-style:italic">Embedding AI in Service Systems and Intelligent Operations</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,63,66)">,
is a non-credit, university-wide hybrid summer intensive course taught by our Assistant Professor
</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Meng Zhao</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">,
</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,63,66)">providing hands-on experience with generative AI, optimization engines, and analytics tools in realistic service-system contexts. The second offering,
</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-style:italic">Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Engineering and Operations Research,</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,63,66)">
is a for-credit course focusing on the application of modern machine learning to complex problems across manufacturing, logistics, and energy systems.</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">
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Colloquium, Saturday, May 16, 2026 IISE Annual Conference, Arlington, TX. We are also very pleased to report that Lehigh ISE Ph.D. alumnus Man Yiu (Tim) Tsang won a 3rd place at the 2026 Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award of the Institute of Industrial &
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0" align="justify"><span style="font-size:16px">The
</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;color:black">Lehigh ISE Newsletter Spring 2026
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