Faculty Oleg Prokopyev - Assistant Professor

• Education: Ph.D. (Industrial and Systems Engineering), University of Florida
• Areas of Expertise: Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimization, Data Mining

Dr. Oleg Prokopyev joined the faculty of the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh in fall 2006. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Moscow, Russia). Dr. Oleg Prokopyev’s primary research interests lie in the areas of combinatorial optimization, data mining, computational optimization methods, heuristics and computational complexity. He is a member of INFORMS and IIE.

Recent Selected Publications

• O.A. Prokopyev, "On Equivalent Reformulations for Absolute Value Equations", Computational Optimization and Applications, accepted for publication, 2007.
• S. Busygin, O.A. Prokopyev, P.M. Pardalos, "An Optimization Based Approach for Data Classification", Optimization Methods and Software, Vol. 22/1 (2007), pp. 3–9.
• M. Min, O.A. Prokopyev, P.M. Pardalos, "Optimal Solutions to Minimum Total Energy Broadcasting Problem in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Vol. 11/1 (2006), pp. 59–69.
• O.A. Prokopyev, H.-Z. Huang, P.M. Pardalos, "On Complexity of Unconstrained Hyperbolic 0–1 Programming Problems", Operations Research Letters, Vol. 33/3 (2005), pp. 312–318.
• S. Busygin, O.A. Prokopyev, P.M. Pardalos, "Feature Selection for Consistent Biclustering via Fractional 0–1 Programming", Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Vol. 10/1 (2005), pp. 7–21.

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