Francis Bahk

Research Assistant in ORIE

Department of Operations Research and Information Engineering
Cornell University, NY, USA

Email: feb47@cornell.edu
Phone: +1 585 287 4025
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About Me

I'm a Research Assistant at Cornell, fortunate enough to work under Prof. Peter Frazier in leveraging LLMs to efficiently navigate and rank Pareto-optimal solutions—see a demo of our research. During undergrad, I used integer programming techniques to help schedule courses at Cornell under Prof. David Shmoys and completed two Mathematics REUs.

I graduated from Cornell in May 2025 with a B.A. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Classics.

Projects and Research Publications

• A. Jovine, T. Ye, F. Bahk, J. Wang, D. Shmoys, P. Frazier: LISTEN - LLM Framework for Multi-Objective Selection. NeurIPS MLxOR 2025. (Paper)
• UMich-Dearborn Math REU, F. Bahk, A. Russell, A. Sarro, T. A. Wong: Zeros of Period Polynomials of Bianchi Modular Forms. SUMMR Conference, July 2024. (Presentation)
• Cornell Directed Reading Program, F. Bahk, P. Utthenthal: Functional Equation for L-functions. May 2024. (Presentation)
• U. Rochester Physics REU, F. Bahk, J. Rolland: Orthogonal Polynomials for Freeform Surfaces and Elliptic Apertures. August 2023. (Paper)
• Cornell Scheduling Team, F. Bahk: Large-Scale Linear Programs for Minimal-Conflict Course Schedules. Cornell Undergraduate Research Symposium, May 2023. (Website)

Experience

• Teaching Assistant — ORIE 3310: Optimization II, Cornell (Spring 2024)

Awards

• 3rd Placed Team (of 50 Teams) Cornell Trading Competition (with J. de Leeuw, I. Yang), 2024
• Recipient of Cornell Mathematics Department REU Research Grant, 2024