YinzOR 2025

2025 YinzOR Student Conference

The CMU INFORMS Student Chapter is excited to host the 8th YinzOR Conference. This student conference provides an opportunity for students whose research is in Operations Research, Management Science, Industrial Engineering, and other related fields to connect and explore common research interests. Come join us at the Tepper School of Business at CMU on August 29th and 30th!

Information

Registration is now open for the YinzOR 2025 conference!

Attendance is free—sign up by August 15 to secure a spot. Want a conference t-shirt? Be sure to complete your registration by July 15. We look forward to welcoming you!

Interested attendees are invited to apply for the Poster Session and 10-Minute Flash Talk Contest, both of which have cash prizes and accepted applicants can receive complimentary housing.

Meet Our Esteemed Speakers for YinzOR 2025

We are thrilled to announce an exceptional lineup of speakers for this year’s YinzOR conference. Each expert brings a wealth of knowledge and innovative research from the fields of operations research, industrial engineering, machine learning, and more:

Fred Gardi - Founder and CEO of Hexaly
Ted Ralphs - Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University
Léonard Boussioux - Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management, University of Washington
Oliver Hinder - Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Huiwen Jia - Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, UC Berkeley
Michael Li - Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Peter Zhang - Assistant Professor of Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University
Lin An - 5th Year PhD Candidate at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Stay tuned for further announcements and additions to our speaker list! We invite all participants to join us for what promises to be an enriching and engaging series of discussions and presentations. More updates to come — including session schedules and topics.

Organizing Committee

CMU OR/OM/IS PhD Students

Helia Niaparast (Chair) (Email)
Nilsu Uzunlar (Sponsor Chair)
Lin An (Speaker Co-Chair)
Macarena Navarro (Speaker Co-Chair)
H. Satyam Verma (Webmaster Co-Chair)
Emily Cai (Webmaster Co-Chair, Logistics Co-Chair)
Sebastian Vasquez (Logistics Co-Chair)
Daniel Yamín (Marketing Co-Chair)
Zongqi (Aurora) Yu (Marketing Co-Chair)
Guanting Wu (Flash Talk and Poster Session Co-Chair)
Stephen Arndt (Flash Talk and Poster Session Co-Chair)

* Please feel free to email our Chair with any of your questions/comments!

YinzOR Trivia

“Yinz” means you-ones or yous-ones (2nd person plural pronoun) and derives from the Scots language, sometimes called Lowland Scots, spoken in southern Scotland until the late 18th century. It was spoken by such famous people as Adam Smith and David Hume, who also spoke and preferred English.

Many Lowland Scots migrated to Ulster (Northern Ireland) around 1600, and many from there to North America, where they are known as Scots-Irish. Most originally settled in western Pennsylvania, including the Mellons (as in Carnegie Mellon University), who are from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. This is why the Pittsburgh dialect is influenced by their language, and Pittsburghers are known as Yinzers today.

Prof. John Hooker

Past Conferences

YinzOR 2024
YinzOR 2023
YinzOR 2022
YinzOR 2021
YinzOR 2019
YinzOR 2018
YinzOR 2017