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Omar El Housni

Assistant Professor

School of Operations Research and Information Engineering

Omar El Housni
Omar El Housni
Graduate Field Affiliations
Applied Mathematics
Operations Research and Information Engineering

Biography

Omar El Housni is Assistant Professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and Cornell Tech at Cornell University. His research revolves around decision-making under uncertainty where he aims to design robust and efficient algorithms for a wide range of dynamic optimization problems with applications in revenue management and matching platforms. Omar spent a few internships as a research and data scientist at Amazon and Uber where he contributed to the design and implementation of data-driven optimization models for matching and retailing platforms. He holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from École Polytechnique (France), and a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in operations research from Columbia University.

Select Publications

  • Omar El Housni, Vineet Goyal and David Shmoys. “On the Power of Static Assignment Policies for Robust Facility Location Problems,” In Proceedings of Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO2021).

  • Omar El Housni, Vineet Goyal. “On the Optimality of Affine Policies for Budgeted Uncertainty Sets,” Math of Operations Research, 46 (2), 674-711, 2021.

  • Omar El Housni, Aharon Ben-Tal and Vineet Goyal. “A Tractable Approach for Designing Piecewise Affine Policies in Dynamic Robust Optimization,” Math Programming, 182 (1), 57-102, 2020.

  • Omar El Housni, Vineet Goyal. “Piecewise Static Policies for Two-stage Adjustable Robust Linear Optimization,” Math Programming 169 (2), 649-665, 2018.

  • Omar El Housni, Vineet Goyal.”Beyond Worst-case: A Probabilistic Analysis of Affine Policies in Dynamic Optimization,” Journal version under review. Preliminary version published as spotlight in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2017.

Select Awards and Honors

  • Cornell Tech Urban Tech grant 2022-2023
  • Second prize in the INFORMS George Nicholson student paper competition 2020
  • Amazon Inventor Award 2017
  • The Graduate Fellowship for Masters in Operations Research, Columbia University 2016
  • École Polytechnique Research Prize in Applied Mathematics 2015
  • French Government’s Major-Excellence Scholarship 2012

Education

  • B.S. (Applied Mathematics), École Polytechnique 2015
  • Ph.D. (Operations Research), Columbia University 2020