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Ryan Cory-Wright is an Assistant Professor in the Analytics and Operations Group at Imperial College Business School. He previously held a Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship at IBM Research and earned his PhD in Operations Research from MIT in 2022 under Dimitris Bertsimas, after obtaining a BE (1st class Hons) in Engineering Science from the University of Auckland.
- Education: MIT (PhD), University of Auckland (BE)
- Affiliations: Imperial College Business School, IBM Research, MIT
His research bridges optimization, machine learning, and sustainability, focusing on extending optimization methods to solve practical problems like rank-constrained product recommendations and low-carbon economy transitions. Collaborations include projects with OCP to guide two billion USD solar-battery investments.
Recent work includes AI-Hilbert (2024 Nature Communications, Outstanding Technical Achievement Award), Stability Regularized Cross-Validation, and Matrix Goemans-Williamson Rounding. He has developed scalable algorithms for sparse portfolio selection and certifiably optimal matrix completion.
- Honors:
- Goldstine Fellowship (2022-23)
- Nicholson Prize (2020)
- Pierskalla Award (2020)
- INFORMS DMDA Best Paper (2024)
- ICS Student Paper Award (2019)
- Advising: Co-advises Lingjun Meng as a doctoral student.
He teaches Decision Making Under Uncertainty (PhD), Optimization and Decision Models (Online MSc), and Data Structures/Algorithms (UG Econ/Finance), with a focus on Python-based computational methods.
