Professor Dr. Alexander Shapiro
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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
Khachiyan Prize
Dantzig Prize
John von Neumann Theory Prize
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Specialization Notes
Department of Computer Science: GRE scores are optional for Fall 2026.