Social Optimization Laboratory

Mission

Optimization for the social good encompasses modeling and prescriptive efforts to foster practices aimed at helping people be educated, healthy, and conscious of the issues of societal concern

in today's well-connected, data-rich world. 

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The long-term objective of SOLLAB is to make advances in social network modeling, influence maximization, and inference based on big data, to strategically build teams and communities that will promote human collaboration, synergy, and informativeness.

SOLLAB Residents

Alexander Nikolaev

DIRECTOR

An Associate Professor, working in Operations Research, Dr. Nikolaev holds degrees from University of Illinois, the Ohio State University, and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Rahul Gopalsamy

M.S. STUDENT

A second year student of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science at University at Buffalo, Rahul is involved in the work on Crowdlearning.

Laiyun Wu

PH.D. STUDENT

A second year student of Industrial Engineering at University at Buffalo, Laiyun conducts research informed by big transportation data.

Mohammed Helal
M.S. STUDENT

A first year M.S. student in Industrial Engineering, Mohammed is interested in developing methods for causal inference with network data.

Abhinav Perla

PH.D. STUDENT

A third year student of Industrial Engineering at University at Buffalo, Abhinav moves forward Good Citizen Science.

Alireza Farasat

PH.D. GRADUATE

A Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science, Alireza is now at Twilio; in SOLLAB, he is still active in developing intelligent tutoring system solutions for Crowdlearning. 

Mohammadreza Samadi

PH.D. GRADUATE

A Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Mohammad is now with American Airlines; in SOLLAB, he is still active in moving forward the research on influence maximization.

Sabrina Casucci

PH.D. GRADUATE

A Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Sabrina is now a Teaching Assistant Professor; in SOLLAB, she is still active doing research on health information technology and process improvement.

Sushant Khopkar

PH.D. GRADUATE

A Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Sushant is now an Applied Research Scientist at Llamasoft; in SOLLAB, he is still active doing computing-intensive social network analysis.

    Active External Collaborators of SOLLAB

Vladimir Boginski (University of Central Florida)

Dinissa Duvanova (Lehigh University)

Scott McIntosh (University of Rochester)

Rakesh Nagi (University of Illinois)

Eduardo Pasiliao (AFRL)

Alexander Veremyev (University of Florida)

Alexander Semenov, Jari Veijalainen (University of Jyväskylä)

 
 

CONTACT SOLLAB

Our Address:

Social Optimization Laboratory

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

University at Buffalo

327 Bell Hall, Buffalo, New York, 14260, USA

Phone  Numbers:

1-716-645-4710

1-716-645-1799