I'm an Industrial Engineering undergrad student looking for a topic for my dissertation on Operations Research. Are there any problems you consider worth exploring?<p>I had a couple data competitions [1][2] in mind, but I'm not sure they're viable "Operations Research" problems.<p>[1]: http://www.drivendata.org/competitions/5/<p>[2]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/walmart-recruiting-sales-in-stormy-weather
Reddit has a few subreddits for operations research. You may have better luck there: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/msor/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/msor/</a> , <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/sysor/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/sysor/</a>.<p>Also google has some famous operation research tools: <a href="https://github.com/google/or-tools" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/google/or-tools</a> .<p>I think operations research is a very broad topic. There is probably heavy overlap in managing large graphs of information as well.