Ilya Ryzhov | Smith School

Ilya Ryzhov

Area Chair, Decision, Operations and Information Technologies

Professor of Management Science and Operations Management

Ph.D., Princeton University

Contact

301-405-1118

iryzhov@umd.edu

4347 Van Munching Hall

Personal Website

I am a Professor in the Department of Decision, Operations, and Information Technologies at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. I received my Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2011. I am a co-author (with W.B. Powell) of the book Optimal Learning, available on Amazon.

I work in the general area of business analytics, encompassing topics in optimization, probability, and statistics. More specifically, my research deals with decision-making under uncertainty, often with the additional dimension of information collection. Much of this work is theoretical and methodological, but I have also worked on applications in humanitarian/nonprofit operations, medical decision-making, revenue management, and transportation. Please see my homepage for more information.

Associate Editor, Operations Research, 2018-present.
Associate Editor, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2021-present
Associate Editor, IISE Transactions, 2018-present.
Associate Editor, Operations Research Letters, 2022-present
Co-editor, Proceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference.

Winner, Outstanding Paper Award, INFORMS Urban Transportation SIG, 2020.
Finalist, Best Paper Award, POMS College of Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management, 2019.
Winner, Outstanding Publication Award, INFORMS Simulation Society, 2017.
Winner, Glover-Klingman Prize, 2015.
Finalist, INFORMS Junior Faculty Forum Paper Competition, 2014.
3x Distinguished Teaching Award, Robert H. Smith School of Business, 2017-2019.