Marina Epelman

Marina Epelman is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she has been a faculty member since Fall 1999. She also serves as the Associate Chair of Graduate Education. Her teaching includes graduate and undergraduate courses in linear and nonlinear optimization, such as Linear Programming II and Nonlinear Programming.

• PhD in Operations Research from MIT (1999)

Her research focuses on mathematical programming, covering linear, semidefinite, and nonlinear optimization, with applications in healthcare operations (e.g., medical residency scheduling, radiation therapy optimization), automotive scheduling (e.g., crash test and vehicle prototyping), and algorithm design (e.g., simplex methods, sampled fictitious play, column generation).

Recent publications highlight her work in stochastic optimization for healthcare scheduling, dose distribution in radiation therapy, and automotive production planning. Her methodologies often bridge dynamic programming, Markov decision processes, and network optimization.