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Bio

Grani A. Hanasusanto is an Associate Professor in Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin and a Postdoctoral Scholar at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from Imperial College London and an MSc in Financial Engineering from the National University of Singapore. Grani’s research focuses on developing tractable solution approaches for decision-making under uncertainty, with applications in operations management, energy systems, finance, machine learning, and data analytics. His work has been published in leading journals, including Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Stochastic Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Grani received the NSF CAREER Award in 2018 and was named a Walker Scholar by the UT Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, recognizing his contributions to research, teaching, and service. He has served as an INFORMS DEI Ambassador and is currently on the INFORMS DEI Community committee as well as the editorial board of Operations Research as an Associate Editor.

Awards & Honors

  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students (2023)

  • INFORMS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Ambassador (2022)

  • ME Walker Scholar (2019)

  • NSF CAREER Award (2018)

  • First prize in Google Poster Competition (2014)

  • Imperial College International Scholarship (2011–2015)

  • RMI PSA Prize for student with the best aggregate CAP in computing and technical modules (2011)