O.R. Advances through Collaboration (ORACL)

Over the past 30 years the lag time between operations research and application has grown larger. Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering has established ORACL to address this glaring problem. Founding companies who join the membership-based ORACL will have both influence and access. And through this influence and access they will gain a competitive advantage.
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Influence

Companies will have the opportunity to influence the types of research projects professors and graduate students undertake at Cornell. If a company sees certain operations research challenges looming in the middle-term future, they can work with professors to design research questions that will address these challenges.

Access

Projects will involve faculty and students from a school with a long and distinguished record of leadership and innovation in the field of data driven decision-making. Member companies will also participate in annual workshops where faculty, postdocs and Ph.D. students will provide updates on the latest developments in machine learning, simulation and optimization.
 

Through ORACL, Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering will gain stronger ties to leading users of operations research as well as important information about the challenges the member companies see themselves facing in the coming years. And the gap between research and application will shrink, which is in everyone’s interest.
 

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Program Features

  • Cornell’s first affiliates program

  • 10-20 member enterprises

  • $75K/year with discount for multi-year commitment

  • Two ORACL workshops/year, one in Ithaca and one at Cornell Tech

  • Influence research directions

  • Early insight into project progress, findings, and results

  • Access to faculty, postdocs, and students

ORACL Members

  • Citizens Bank

  • CVS Health

  • E&J Gallo Wineries

  • General Motors

  • Munich RE

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