Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Ravindra K. Ahuja, Professor
IIT Kanpur, 1982
Network and combinatorial optimization; linear and integer programming; routing and scheduling heuristic optimization.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/ahuja/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2004
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Elif Akçali, Associate Professor
Purdue University, 2001
Production planning and control; discrete and heuristic optimization; semiconductor manufacturing; spare parts management.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/akcali/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2005
Weil 303
Sherman X. Bai, Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991
Manufacturing systems; real-time scheduling; optimal control/optimization; dynamic game models; digital simulation; supply chain management; information systems technology.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/bai/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2006
Weil 478
Vladimir Boginski, Assistant Professor
University of Florida, 2005
Systems Engineering; Mathematical Modeling of Complex Networks; Operations Research/Optimization; Robustness/resiliency characteristics of networked systems in adverse/uncertain environments; Large-scale random graph models and related asymptotic phase transition problems; Data mining techniques
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/boginski

(352) 392 1464
Joseph P. Geunes, Professor
Associate Chair
Pennsylvania State University, 1999
Production planning and inventory Control; applied optimization; Supply chain management.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/geunes/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2012
Weil 450A
Yongpei Guan, Associate Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005
Integer Programming and Stochastic Optimization; Supply Chain Management; Power Grid Security and Energy Policy Analysis
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/guan/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2037
Weil 413
Joseph C. Hartman, Professor
Department Chair
Georgia Institute of Technology , 1996
Engineering Economic Decision Analysis; Transportation Logistics; Manufacturing Logistics;
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/hartman/

(352) 392 1464
Weil 301
Serdar Kirli, Senior Lecturer
University of Florida, 1999
Software engineering; internet technologies, real-time control, industrial applications of microcontrollers.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/kirli/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2014
Weil 415A
George Lan, Assistant Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009
Theory, algorithms and applications of stochastic and nonlinear optimization
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/glan/

(352) 392 1464
Weil 302
Siriphong (Toi) Lawphongpanich, Associate Professor
Undergraduate Coordinator
University of Florida, 1983
Operations research; mathematical programming; transportation sciences.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/toi/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2015
Weil 304
Petar Momcilovic, Associate Professor
M.S. Program Coordinator
Columbia University, 2003
Applied Probability, Service Engineering
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/momcilovic/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2053
WEIL 479
Panos M. Pardalos, Distinguished Professor
Director, Center for Applied Optimization
University of Minnesota, 1985
Global optimization; integer programming and graph algorithms; complexity; parallel computing; optimization software.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/pardalos/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2017
Weil 401A
Jean Philippe Richard, Associate Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002
Operations Research; Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Integer Programming Theory and Applications; Polyhedral Theory; Algorithms.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/richard/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2018
Weil 372
J. Cole Smith, Professor
Ph.D. Program Coordinator
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2000
Integer programming and combinatorial optimization, network flows and facility location, heuristic and computational optimization methods, large-scale optimization due to uncertainty or robustness considerations.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/cole/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2020
Weil 302B
R. Keith Stanfill, Engineer
IPPD Director
University of Florida, 1995
Technology transfer, product realization process, design education, design for X, manufacturing systems.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/stanfill/

(352) 846 3354
Weil 378
Suleyman Tufekçi, Associate Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology, 1977
Integrated product/process design; manufacturing systems; decision support systems; production planning; emergency management and engineering.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/tufekci/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2022
Weil 468
Stanislav Uryasev, Professor
Director, Risk Management and Financial Engineering (RMFE) Lab
Institute of Cybernetics (Kiev), 1982
Operations research; optimization of large stochastic systems, risk management, Financial Engineering (portfolio optimization, ALM, credit risk, trading strategies), and military applications.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/uryasev/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2023
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Affiliated Faculty

Timothy Middelkoop, Adjunct Professor
University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006
Clean energy optimization and control, multi-core and high performance (HPC) computational optimization, cyberinfrastructure, distributed sensor networks, and multi-agent systems.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/middelkoop/

(352) 392 1464 ext 2052
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R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, Adjunct Research Professor
Harvard University, 1963
Development of optimization methodology for modeling large-scale problems in decision or control over time, possibly with stochastic elements; numerical techniques for solving such problems; and associated innovations in mathematical analysis.
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/rockafellar/

(352) 392 1464

Emeriti Faculty

James F. Burns,
Professor Emeritus

(352) 392 1464 ext 2007
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Barney L. Capehart,
Professor Emeritus

(352) 392 1464 ext 2008
Weil 377
Kenneth E. Dominiak,
Retired Associate Engineer

(904) 833 9350 ext 240
D. Jack Elzinga,
Professor Emeritus

(352) 392 1464 ext 2010
Weil 482
Richard L. Francis,
Professor Emeritus

(352) 392 1464 ext 2011
Weil 378
Donald W. Hearn,
Professor Emeritus

(352) 392 1464
Weil 301
John F. Mahoney,
Professor Emeritus

(352) 392 1464 ext 2016
Weil 481
Eginhard J. Muth,
Professor Emeritus

(352) 377 8949
Weil 378
Eginhard J. Muth
Richard PattersonRichard Patterson,
Professor Emeritus

(352) 392 3092 ext 2016
Weil 481
Robert T. Sorkin,
Professor Emeritus

(352) 392 601 ext 229

Staff

Zac Bielling
Fiscal Officer

(352) 392 1464 ext 2025
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Cynthia Blunt
Academic Support Services Coordinator

(352) 392 1464 ext 2026
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Tammi Gibson
Program Assistant, OEM

(352) 392 0928
Weil 471
Erin Hodge
Senior Director of Development

(352) 392 6795
Weil 330
Patsy Messinger
Associate Director, OEM

(352) 392 0982
Weil 471
Maureen Milch
Program Assistant, IPPD
(352) 846 1975
NEB 176
Norman Miller
Systems Administrator, IPPD

(352) 392 4629
NEB 176
Leslie Redding
Program Assistant

(352) 392 1464 ext 2036
Weil 303
Sara Pons
Program Assistant, Advising Office

(352) 392 1464 ext 2024
Weil 371
Jennifer Reeger
Office Manager

(352) 392 1464 ext 2003
Weil 303