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I am Professor in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department at Columbia University. I received my PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization (ACO) in 2008 from Tepper School ...

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Our laboratory was chartered to continue investigating the function of the immune system at a fundamental level and to developing therapeutics for autoimmune diseases and HIV. Our fundamental research ...