Research Areas
John Adams
Courses Taught
Statistics, Product Quality
Research/Professional Interests
Applications of Probability and Statistics; Teaching of Probability and Statistics; Quality Engineering Program
Frank E. Curtis
Courses Taught
Operations Research
Research/Professional Interests
Large-scale mathematical programming and its applications, Applied mathematics, Scientific computing, Operations research
Keith Gardiner
Courses Taught
Microelectronics Manufacturing Systems and Technologies; Technology and the Factory of the Future; Organizational Planning and Control; Manufacturing Management; Agile Organizations and Manufacturing Systems; Aspects of Sustainable Systems Design; and Materials Science as needed. Also responsible for first year Engineering 5 courses.
Research/Professional Interests
Design issues relating to organizations, products, processes and systems, both individually and severally; Relationships between materials and process selections and the manufacturing systems interactions; Micromanufacturing, economic environmental and sociotechnological issues associated with future manufacturing systems and sustainability; Bioengineering
Mikell Groover
Courses Taught
Manufacturing Processes; Automation and Production Systems; Material Handling and Facilities Planning; Work Systems; Assembly Processes and Systems; Logistics; Metal Machining Analysis
Research/Professional Interests
Manufacturing Engineering; Manufacturing Processes; Production Systems; Automation; Material Handling
Nicholas Odrey
Courses Taught
Dynamics, Modeling, and Control of Production Systems; Systems Engineering; Discrete Event Dynamic Systems; Automations and Robotics; Production Engineering; Manufacturing; Measurement and Inspection Systems
Research/Professional Interests
Intelligent Control of Production Systems; Control Architectures for Production Systems; System Integration; Flexible Automation; Production Engineering; Measurement and Inspection Systems, Cellular Manufacturing
Eugene Perevalov
Courses Taught
Physics for Engineers, Operations Research -- Probabilistic Models
Research/Professional Interests
Dynamic Optimization; Financial Engineering; Wireless Communication Systems; E-Commerce
Louis Plebani
Courses Taught
Advanced Computer Programming and Applications; Operations Research; Probability and Statistics; Modeling and Simulation; Internet Applications
Research/Professional Interests
Dynamic Optimization; Financial Engineering; Wireless Communication Systems; E-Commerce
Ted Ralphs
Courses Taught
Integer Programming; Linear Programming; Non-linear Programming; Algorithms in Systems Engineering; Computation in Operations Research; Introduction to Engineering Practice; Systems Engineering Design
Research/Professional Interests
Discrete Optimization; Combinatorial Optimization; Logistics Problems; Routing and Packing Problems; Electronic Auctions; Graphs and Network Flows; Design and Analysis of Algorithms; Parallel Algorithms; Computational Biology
Katya Scheinberg
Courses Taught
Optimization Models and Applications, Optimization Methods in Machine Learning, Derivative free optimization
Research/Professional Interests
Mathematical programming, linear, convex and nonlinear optimization, Derivative free optimization, Application of optimization to machine learning, statistics and support vector machines, Conic programming, interior point methods, Matrix factorizations in interior point methods, Sensitivity analysis
Lawrence Snyder
Courses Taught
Production and Inventory Control; Operations Research; Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management; Advanced Inventory Theory; and Introduction to Engineering Practice
Research/Professional Interests
Supply Chain Management; Logistics, Transportation, and Facility Location Problems; Models for Decision-making Under Uncertainty; Applied Optimization
Robert Storer
Courses Taught
Probability and Statistics; Simulation; Design of Experiments; Time Series Analysis; Operations Research; Heuristics; Integrated Business and Engineering Courses
Research/Professional Interests
Heuristics; Logistics; Combinatorial Optimization; Operations Research; Applied Statistics and Statistical Modeling; Simulation; Financial Models
Tamás Terlaky
Research/Professional Interests
Linear and Nonlinear Optimization, Conic Linear Optimization, Second Order Conic and Semidefinite Optimization, Interior Point Methods, Pivot and Combinatorial Algorithms, Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization, Sensitivity Analysis, Duality Theory; Optimization in Engineering, VLSI design, MRI Imaging, Portfolio Optimization, Optimization Software, Optimization of Digital Communication Systems, Scientific Computing, Nuclear Reactor Reloading Optimization, PDE-Based Optimization
Aurélie Thiele
Courses Taught
Optimization Methods, Linear and Nonlinear Optimization, Stochastic Processes, Quantitative Models for Decision-Making, Production and Inventory Control
Research/Professional Interests
Robust Optimization, Decision-Making under Uncertainty, Risk-Averse and Data-Driven Decision-Making, Supply Chains, Revenue Management, Operations Management
Gregory Tonkay
Courses Taught
Automation; Manufacturing Processes; Electronics Manufacturing; Engineering Economy; Robotics
Research/Professional Interests
Automation; Electronics Manufacturing; Computer Control of Manufacturing Systems; Robotics
George Wilson
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses in Production Control; Operations Research. Graduate Courses in Nonlinear Programming; Stochastic Processes; Scheduling; and Dynamic Programming
Research/Professional Interests
Applied Stochastic Processes; Optimization; Production Planning and Control; Modeling and Analysis of Logistic Systems
S. David Wu
Courses Taught
Undergraduate courses in Supply Chain Analysis; Advanced Topics in Operations Research, and Information Technologies. Graduate courses in Quantitative Models in Supply Chain; Discrete Optimization; Networks and Graphs; Mathematical models in Manufacturing Logistics
Research/Professional Interests
Supply Chain Analysis: Technology Forecasting; High-Tech Supply Chains; Capacity and Demand Management. Distributed and Game Theoretic Decision Processes: Auction and Bidding: Combinatorial, Multi-Attribute, and Sequential Auctions; Game-Theoretic Modeling; Bargaining Theory. Optimization: Stochastic Programming; Discrete Optimization
Emory Zimmers
Courses Taught
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing; Computer Graphics; Manufacturing Problems; Experimental Industrial Engineering; Senior Project; Engineering Practicum
Research/Professional Interests
Computer Applications in Industrial Systems; Application of Traditional Industrial Engineering Techniques; Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Student-Run Companies; Agility; Enterprise Systems; Multi-Media Distance Learning
Luis Zuluaga
Courses Taught
Optimization Models and Applications
Research/Professional Interests
Polynomial Optimization; Financial Optimization; Large-scale Optimization