Assistant Professor at Imperial College Business School Optimization+Machine Learning+Renewable Energy Runner | Kiwi 🇳🇿 | ryancorywright.github.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/ryancorywright.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ryancorywright.bsky.social/post/3lxk7of4rok2iThe Analytics & Operations group at Imperial Business School is hiring for an open-ranked position (especially interested in rookies). Deadline 8 October, please apply via the link here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jobs/description/index.php?jobId=25344&jobTitle=Professor+%28Assistant%2FAssociate%2F+Full+Professor%29+in+Analytics+and+Operations29 Aug 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:d6qovxu77yzjgbppud45o7vl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxk7of4rok2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ryancorywright.bsky.social/post/3lniwknteyc24Hidden gems in OR/MS: "L. V. Kantorovich: The Price Implications of Optimal Planning" www.jstor.org/stable/2727266 Duality theory was almost discovered in the Soviet Union in the 1940s by Kantorovich. His research was halted for ideological reasons.23 Apr 2025 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:d6qovxu77yzjgbppud45o7vl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lniwknteyc24https://bsky.app/profile/ryancorywright.bsky.social/post/3lm63snrct22rOn 4 April, we had the pleasure of organizing the 2nd London Operations Research Day with Agni Orfanoudaki, Yi-Chun Akchen and Jean Pauphilet at Oxford. The conference took place at Worcester College; thx to Qube Research and Technology for sponsorship A recap thread ⬇️ londonorday.github.io06 Apr 2025 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:d6qovxu77yzjgbppud45o7vl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm63snrct22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/ryancorywright.bsky.social/post/3lltpgdefb22jJust finished reading Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Super interesting book! Made me think about the NeurIPS submission checklist. Since 2021, the number of questions in the submission checklist has ballooned from 5 to 16. Is this another example of "everything bagel liberalism"?02 Apr 2025 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:d6qovxu77yzjgbppud45o7vl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lltpgdefb22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/ryancorywright.bsky.social/post/3lf2xqytboc2cNew paper alert 🚨 https://optimization-online.org/2025/01/improved-approximation-algorithms-for-low-rank-problems-using-semidefinite-optimization/ “Improved Approximation Algorithms for Low-Rank Problems Using Semidefinite Optimization” (w/ Jean Pauphilet) Inspired by Goemans-Williamson’s success in binary quadratic optimization, we generalize to semi-orthogonal and low-rank matrices.06 Jan 2025 10:52 +0000at://did:plc:d6qovxu77yzjgbppud45o7vl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf2xqytboc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/ryancorywright.bsky.social/post/3lbnbow4w422aAre you an Ops researcher in the London area (broadly construed)? Are you free on 4 April 2025? Consider signing up for the London OR day in Oxford: mailing list available at londonorday.github.io23 Nov 2024 19:57 +0000at://did:plc:d6qovxu77yzjgbppud45o7vl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbnbow4w422ahttps://bsky.app/profile/ryancorywright.bsky.social/post/3lbnbkomel22aHidden gems in OR and MS: When I was a PhD student at the OR Center at MIT, the students ran a software tools course every winter, introducing tools like Git and Julia/JuMP. I shared this with my PhD student, so 2024 version (it gets updated each year): https://github.com/angkoulouras/15.S60_202423 Nov 2024 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:d6qovxu77yzjgbppud45o7vl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbnbkomel22a