Santanu Dey

Santanu S. Dey is an Anderson-Interface Chair Professor and Director of Doctoral Recruiting and Admissions in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has also served as Associate Chair of Graduate Studies and held the A. Russell Chandler III Professorship from 2019 to 2022 and the Fouts Family Junior Professorship from 2013 to 2016 in the same school. Dey earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University in 2007, M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University in 2003, and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Mumbai University in 2000. Prior to Georgia Tech, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.

Dey's research centers on algorithms for non-convex optimization, particularly mixed-integer linear and nonlinear programming, motivated by applications in electrical power engineering, process engineering, structural engineering, logistics, and statistics. He received the inaugural INFORMS Optimization Society Egon Balas Prize in 2020, INFORMS ENRE Best Publication Award in Energy in 2019, NSF CAREER Award in 2012, IBM Faculty Award in 2009, and Class of 1969 Teaching Fellow in 2010. Dey serves on editorial boards of Mathematical Programming A and SIAM Journal on Optimization, was associate editor for INFORMS Journal on Computing and Mathematics of Operations Research, and area editor for Mathematical Programming C. He has contributed to program committees for Mixed Integer Programming Workshop 2013 and Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization 2017 and 2020. His over 85 journal publications include highly cited papers such as "Strong SOCP relaxations for the optimal power flow problem" (Operations Research, 2016), "Solving mixed integer bilinear problems using MILP formulations" (SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2013), "Mixed-integer quadratic programming is in NP" (Mathematical Programming, 2017), and "Improving the integer L-shaped method" (INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2016), amassing over 4,000 citations on Google Scholar and influencing optimization in engineering.

Professional Email: santanu.dey@isye.gatech.edu