Grani A. Hanasusanto

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Associate Professor and ISE Faculty Fellow
Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering
Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
106 Coordinated Science Lab
E-mail: gah at illinois dot edu

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Prospective students: Unfortunately, I am unable to respond to individual email inquiries about positions in my group. Admissions to our graduate program are managed at the department level. To apply, see here.

News

  • September 2025: Two of our papers, “Distributionally Robust Performative Optimization” and “Clip-and-Verify: Linear Constraint-Driven Domain Clipping for Accelerating Neural Network Verification,” have been accepted to NeurIPS 2025!

  • July 2025: Congratulations Hank Park for successfully defending his thesis on “Data-Driven Robust Solution Schemes for Sequential Decision Making”!

  • January 2025: Our paper on “Robust System Identification: Finite-Sample Guarantees and Connection to Regularization” is accepted at ICLR 2025!

  • October 2024: Our paper on “Scalable Neural Network Verification with Branch-and-bound Inferred Cutting Planes” is accepted at Neurips 2024!

  • September 2024: Congratulations to Yijie Wang on his appointment as Assistant Professor in the School of Economics and Management at Tongji University!

  • August 2024: Thank you NSF for supporting our project on Distributionally Robust Quadratic Optimization for Power Systems Applications.

  • May 2024: I will be presenting our work on “Distributionally Robust Path Integral Control” at the Robust Optimization Webinar [video].

  • Apr 2024: Our paper on “Distributionally Robust Observable Strategic Queues” is accepted in Stochastic Systems.

  • Apr 2024: Congratulations Zhuangzhuang Jia for receiving the Ben Hamilton Graduate Research Award!

  • Mar 2024: Our paper on “Wasserstein Robust Classification with Fairness Constraints” is accepted in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

  • Feb 2024: Our paper “Learning Fair Policies for Multi-Stage Selection Problems from Observational Data” is accepted for oral presentation at AAAI 24!

  • Jan 2024: I am joining the editorial board of Operations Research as an Associate Editor for the Optimization area.

  • Jan 2024: I am honored to be recognized on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students.

  • June 2023: Our paper on “Improved Decision Rule Approximations for Multi-Stage Robust Optimization via Copositive Programming” is accepted in Operations Research. A news article is available at ISE announcement.

  • April 2023: Xiangyi Fan has successfully defended her thesis on “Distributionally Robust Approaches for Two-stage Optimization and Interdiction Problems Under Uncertainty.” Congratulations!

  • March 2023: Congratulations Yijie Wang for successfully defending his thesis on “Robust Solution Schemes for Queue Management, Fair Classification, and Portfolio Selection Problems”!

  • July 2022: Our paper on “A Robust Spectral Clustering Algorithm for Sub-Gaussian Mixture Models with Outliers” is published in Operations Research.

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