- January 2023: Welcome Dr. Alexander Semenov on board as an Assistant Director for the center.
- January 2023: Welcome Dr. Jorge A. Sefair on board as an Associate Director for the center.
- November 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Panos Pardalos on being awarded an Honorary Ph.D. from Athens University, Greece. The award ceremony is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cXwjEAFe8k
- November 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Aleks Kazachkov on the grant from the UF Informatics Institute (UFII), entitled “A Fair and Efficient System for Allocating Food Bank Resources Through a Joint Prediction and Discrete Optimization Framework.”
- March, 2021 Congratulations to Dr. Xu Sun for his paper entitled “Scheduling to Differentiate Service in a Multiclass Service System“, with his colleagues Yunan Liu and Kyle Hovey, published at Operations Research.
- March 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Hongcheng Liu for his paper entitled “High-Dimensional Learning under Approximate Sparsity with Applications to Nonsmooth Estimation and Regularized Neural Networks“, with his colleagues Yinyu Ye and Hung Yi Lee, published at Operations Research.