Associate Professor
Biography
Jim Ostrowski is an Associate Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at the University of Tennessee. Jim’s primary research focus has been on developing algorithmic tools and theory to solve difficult optimization problems. To date, the search for difficult problems has led to two different research areas, symmetry exploitation and application in power systems. His work "Orbital Branching," has become an industry standard in dealing with symmetry in integer programming, and has been implemented in almost all optimization solvers. Similarly, his work in power generator scheduling optimization is currently being used in practice. He is an associate editor for the INFORMS Journal on Computing. Jim was the recipient of the 2017 Department of Energy’s Early Career Award.