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Ilya Ryzhov
Area Chair, Decision, Operations and Information Technologies
Dean's Professor of Decision Sciences
Ph.D., Princeton University
Ilya Ryzhov is the Area Chair of Decision, Operations, and Information Technologies and the Dean's Professor of Decision Sciences at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2011. Ryzhov is a co-author of the book “Optimal Learning” with W.B. Powell. His research focuses on business analytics, including optimization, probability, and statistics, with a particular emphasis on decision-making under uncertainty and information collection. His work spans both theoretical and applied areas, including humanitarian and nonprofit operations, medical decision-making, revenue management, and transportation.
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- 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.