Jacob Aguirre

I am a 2nd year Operations Research PhD Candidate at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Institute of Technology. I am grateful to be advised by Professors Anton J. Kleywegt and Renato D.C. Monteiro, and quite fortunate to collaborate and learn from Dr. Arkadi Nemirovski.

My research interests lie in the area of continuous optimization and complexity of algorithms. More specifically, I am interested in the theory, complexity analysis, and implementation of algorithms for solving large-scale optimization programs.

Prior to joining ISyE, I graduated from Georgia Tech with focuses in Economics and Mathematics. I also pursued MS degrees in math and econ while as undergrad through BS/MS.

I am grateful for the support provided by the National Science Foundation GRFP, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Georgia Tech, and GEM PhD Fellowship.

Recent News

  • I look forward to presenting recent work on semidefinite programming at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Please reach out if we share any common interests in continuous optimization theory and methods. (April 2025)

  • I am excited to be the incoming Georgia Tech ISyE INFORMS Chapter President for the 2025-2026 academic year. (March 2025)

  • I am deeply appreciative to Georgia Tech ISyE, particularly Ms. Amanda Ford and Dr. Christos Alexopoulos, for the increase and support of my academic fellowships for the next few years. (December 2024)

  • I recently gave a presentation on inexact high-order proximal point methods for convex tensor optimization at Georgia Tech. (April 2024)

  • I gave a presentation on hybrid low rank methods for large-scale nonlinear convex programming in the ISyE PhD research seminar at Georgia Tech. (Feb 2024)

  • I will attend the 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society (IOS) conference in Houston, Texas from March 22nd-24th. Feel free to connect, especially if we share similar interests! (Oct 2023)

  • I am happy to announce that I won the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. (Apr 2023)

  • I was awarded the H. Milton Stewart fellowship, alongside the Ernst & Young fellowship, for my first-year PhD studies at Georgia Tech. Thank you to ISyE department for this generous support. (Feb 2023)

  • I am happy to be an incoming Research Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Machine Learning Group within the CCSD Directorate. (Jan 2023)

  • I have graduated from Georgia Tech with my undergrad degrees! Thank you to Professors Daniel Dench and Gian-Gabriel Garcia for being excellent research advisors to me. (Dec 2022)

  • I received a Full PhD Fellowship from the GEM Consortium for my studies at Georgia Institute of Technology. (Nov 2022)

  • I will be giving presentations on my recent work with Dr. Daniel Dench entitled "The Effects of EVALI Crisis on Youth and Adult Usage of E-cigarettes: Evidence from PATH" at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale and American Economic Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Feel free to reach out! (Nov 2022)

  • I was named a Presidential Undergraduate Research Fellow and Summer Research Fellow at Georgia Tech! Along with generous financial support, I will be working with Dr. Gian-Gabriel Garcia in ISyE on topics related to Medical Decision Making and Stochastic Optimization. (May 2022)

  • I will give a talk on E-cigarettes and the effects of EVALI at a seminar organized by the University of Virginia. Thanks for the invite! (April 2022)

    • Contact

    Office: ISyE Main 322D
    You can also spot me at any of the various coffee shops around campus ☕️
    Email: lastname [at] gatech [dot] edu
    ISyE Webpage: Here
    Twitter: @JacobMAguirre
    Github: JacobAguirre9