Dr. Alexander Shapiro

Professor

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Biography

Alexander Shapiro is the Russell Chandler III Chair Professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research interests focus on stochastic programming, risk analysis, simulation-based optimization, and multivariate statistical analysis. He has made significant contributions to the field of optimization and has received numerous accolades for his work, including the Khachiyan Prize in 2013 for lifetime achievements in optimization and the Dantzig Prize in 2018 awarded by the Mathematical Optimization Society. In 2020, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and received the John von Neumann Theory Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences in 2021. Dr. Shapiro has also served on the editorial board of several professional journals, acting as an area editor for optimization for the Operations Research Journal and as editor-in-chief for the Mathematical Programming Series Journal.

Research Interests

Awards

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Khachiyan Prize

2013-01-01
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Dantzig Prize

2018-01-01
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John von Neumann Theory Prize

2021-01-01

Requirements for Georgia Institute of Technology

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:19
Reading
Required:19
Writing
Required:19
Speaking
Required:19
Total
Required:100
IELTS
Listening
Required:6.5
Reading
Required:6.5
Writing
Required:5.5
Speaking
Required:6.5
Overall
Required:7.5
Prerequisites
Undergraduate degree in computer science or related field
Application Checklist
  • Online application
  • Official transcripts
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Statement of Purpose
Specialization Notes

Department of Computer Science: GRE scores are optional for Fall 2026.