Jay Sethuraman

Jay Sethuraman serves as a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, with research spanning theoretical and applied domains in operations research.

His primary research focuses on:

• Discrete Optimization and its real-world applications
• Scheduling Theory for complex systems
• Applied Probability models
• Matching and Assignment Problems in resource allocation

His work bridges theoretical algorithms with practical industrial engineering challenges, notably contributing to the field during his Fall 2016 tenure as Visiting Scientist for the Algorithms and Uncertainty program at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.

While his teaching portfolio includes IEOR E4407: Game-Theoretic Methods in Operations (scheduled for Fall 2025), details regarding student advising, grant funding, and laboratory teams are not documented in available sources.