Resume
Education
Professional Employment
- Professor (with tenure), Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, August 2006-present.
- Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, August 2002-August 2006.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, October 1999-August
2002.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Decision and Information
Sciences, Rotterdam School of Management,
Erasmus University Rotterdam,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, October 1993-September 1999.
- Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Industrial Engineering
and Operations Research, Columbia
University, New York, New York, September 1992-September 1993.
- Assistant researcher,
Econometric Insitute/Tinbergen Insititute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June
1988-June 1992.
- Research/teaching
assistant, Econometric Insitute, Erasmus
University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 1985-May 1988.
Visiting Positions
- Visiting Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January-April 2007.
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November-December 2006.
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, California, September-October 2006.
- Visiting Professor, Department of Decision
Sciences, Business School,
National University of Singapore, Singapore, July 22-August
22, 2002.
- Visiting Professor, Department of
Quantitative Economics, Maastricht University,
Maastricht, The
Netherlands, May 20-June
20, 2002.
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Industrial and Operations
Engineering, The
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, January-March 1998,
June 1996, August 1994.
- Visiting Professor, Department of Automation and Production,
Ecole
des Mines de Nantes, Nantes, France, April 1996.
- Visiting Assistant
Research Scientist, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1992,
May-June 1991, April-June and September-December 1990, January-August
1989.
Teaching Experience
- University of Florida:
- Operations Research 1 (undergraduate level).
- Operations Research 2 (undergraduate level).
- Applied Probability
Methods for Engineers (Master's level, Outreach Engineering Management
program).
- Fundamentals of Mathematical Programming
(Ph.D. level).
- Stochastic Modeling and
Analysis
(Ph.D. level).
- Dynamic Programming (Ph.D. level).
- Decision Support
Systems for Industrial and Systems Engineers
(undergraduate/Master's level).
- Information Technology
for Engineers and Scientists (undergraduate/Master's level).
- Thesis supervision of
Master's and Ph.D. students in Operations Research.
- Erasmus University Rotterdam:
- Introductory Management
Science
(undergraduate level).
- Decision Systems for
Inventory Management and Production Planning (Master's level).
- Modern Quantitative
Techniques in Logistics Planning (Ph.D. level).
- Thesis supervision of
Master's students in Logistics Management.
Ph.D. Students (graduated)
- Dionne M. Aleman, Optimization Methods in Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning, December 2007,
Chairman. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- F. Zeynep Sargut, Efficient Approaches to Integrated Requirements Planning Problems in Supply Chain Optimization, August 2006,
Chairman. Project Manager, Innovative Scheduling, Gainesville, Florida.
- Ghina Yamout, Applications of Single Party and
Multiple Party Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty to Water
Resources Allocation Problems, August 2005, Co-Chairman (Chair: Kirk
Hatfield). Senior Water Resources Specialist, Parsons Transportation Group, Phoenix, Arizona.
- Arvind Kumar,
Novel Models for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Treatment
Planning, August 2005, Co-Chairman (Chair: Ravindra K. Ahuja).
Research Director, Innovative Scheduling, Gainesville, Florida.
- James Cao,
Stochastic Inventory Control in Dynamic Environments, August
2005, Chairman. Senior Analyst, FedEx Services, Memphis, Tennessee.
- Wei
Huang, Optimization Models for Sourcing Decisions in Supply
Chain Management, August 2004, Chairman. Research Director,
Innovative Scheduling, Gainesville, Florida.
- Sombat Sindhuchao, An Integrated
Inventory-Transportation System for Multi-item Joint Replenishment with
Limited Vehicle Capacity, April 2004, Co-Chairman (Chair: Rein Boondiskulchok). Lecturer, Department of
Industrial Engineering, Ubonratchathani University, Ubonratchathani, Thailand.
- Sandra
Duni Ekşioğlu, Optimizing
Integrated Production, Inventory and Transportation Problems in Supply
Chains, August 26, 2002, Co-Chairman (Chair: Panos M. Pardalos).
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Mississippi State
University, Mississippi State, Mississippi.
- Joongkyu Choi, Stochastic Production and Inventory
Models with Limited Resources, May 2001, Co-Chairman (Chair:
S.X. Bai). Chief Statistician, The Sequoya Group, Sarasota, Florida.
- Paveena Chaovalitwongse, Integrating
Transportation and Inventory Decisions in a Multi-Warehouse Multi-Retailer
System with Stochastic Demand, December 2000, Co-advisor and
committee member (Chairs: P.M. Pardalos, B. Sivazlian). Lecturer, Department of
Industrial Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
- Dolores Romero Morales, Optimization
Problems in Supply Chain Management, October
12, 2000,
Co-Chairman (Chair: J.A.E.E. van Nunen).
University University Reader, Saïd
Business School, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.
- Eligius
M.T. Hendrix, Global Optimization at Work, June
23, 1998,
Co-advisor and committee member (Chairs: P. van Beek,
A.J.M. Beulens). Assistant Professor, Department
of Mathematics, Agricultural University Wageningen,
Wageningen, The Netherlands.
- Michiel A. Odijk, Railway Timetable Generation,
January 12, 1998, Co-advisor and
committee member (Chairs: R.M. Cooke, H. van Maaren).
Consultant, ORTEC Consultants B.V., Gouda, The
Netherlands.
- Daniel J. Reaume, Efficient Random Algorithms for
Constrained Global and Convex Optimization, April
16, 1997,
Co-Chairman (with R.L. Smith). Research Engineer, Research and Development Center, General Motors, Warren, Michigan.
- Yu-Li Chou, Accelerating
the Solution of Dynamic Programs through State Aggregation, April
21, 1995,
Co-Chairman (with R.L. Smith). Partner, Wolverine Decision Technology, Irvine, California.
Ph.D. Students (current)
- Chunhua Men, Chairman. Projected graduation: Summer 2009.
- Mehmet Önal, Chairman. Projected graduation: Summer 2009.
- Chase Rainwater, Co-chairman (Chair: Joseph Geunes). Projected graduation: Summer 2009.
- Thomas Sharkey, Chairman. Projected
graduation: Summer 2008. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
recipient.
- Kanya Auckara-aree, Co-Chairman (Chair: Rein Boondiskulchok), Department of Industrial Engineering,
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Projected graduation:
Summer 2008.
Honors and Awards
- 2006 IERC Best Paper
Award, Service Systems Track, Orlando, FL.
- 2005 IERC Best Paper
Award, Logistics and Inventory Track, Atlanta, GA.
- 2004 Young
Investigator’s Award for paper presented at the ICCR conference in Seoul, Korea.
- 2003 Pierskalla
Best Paper Award, Health Applications Section, INFORMS.
- ERASM research fellow
(1996-1999).
- Tinbergen Institute external research
fellow (1995-1999).
- 1993 George E. Nicholson
Student Paper competition (ORSA), finalist.
- NATO Science Fellowship
of the Netherlands Organisation
for Scientific Research (NWO), September 1992-September 1993.
- 1989 Master's thesis
prize of the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research
(VVS).
Active Research Funding
- National Science
Foundation, Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy: integrated models
and algorithms (PI, with co-PI James F. Dempsey), US$ 249,816,
7/2005-6/2008.
- National Science
Foundation, Solving tactical logistics planning problems under
uncertainty (PI, with co-PI Joseph Geunes),
US$ 245,984, 5/2004-5/2008.
Past Research Funding
- Florida Department of
Health, Optimization of proton therapy treatment planning (co-PI,
with PI James F. Dempsey), US$ 429,275, 8/2004-6/2007.
- Varian Medical Systems, Efficient
global fluence map optimization (co-PI, with PI James F. Dempsey), US$
143,532, 12/2004-11/2005.
- Motorola, A
simulation tool for improving operations planning at Motorola GTSS
(co-PI, with PI Joseph Geunes), US$ 44,000,
2003.
- Motorola, Motorola
Global Telecommunications Solutions Sector inventory optimization
(co-PI, with PI Joseph Geunes and co-PI Elif Akçalı), US$ 35,000,
2002-2003.
- National Science
Foundation, Solving large-scale logistics problems in real-time –
models, algorithms and information systems (PI, with co-PI Ravindra K.
Ahuja), US$ 102,890, 9/2000-9/2002.
- St. John’s River Water
Management District, Development of a water supply operation management
system for the city of Cocoa water resource
department
(co-PI, with PI Kirk Hatfield), US$142,047, 7/2000-7/2002.
- ORTEC Consultants and
World Bank, A stochastic programming approach
to Asset Liability Management” (PI), US$ 32,000, 1997-1998.
- Netherlands Organization
for Scientific Research (NWO): several travel grants, US$ 6,500,
1988-1998.
- Netherlands Organization for
Scientific Research (NWO): NATO Science Fellowship, US$ 26,000, September
1992-September 1993.
- NATO Collaborative
Research Grant, 1989-1992 (Research collaborator; PIs: Robert L. Smith,
Jan Telgen).
- Vereniging Trustfonds
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam: travel grant, US$
1,750, May-June 1991.
- Dutch Network of
Operations Research (LNMB): travel grant, US$ 1,750, May-June 1991.
Professional Activities
- Chair and graduate
coordinator, ISE Department graduate committee (August 2004-August 2006 and August 2007-present).
- Member, ISE Department
graduate committee (August 2000-August 2004).
- Chair, ISE Department
ABET-committee (January 2001-August 2004).
- Member, ISE Department
ABET-committee (August-December 2000, August 2004-August 2005).
- Guest editor of Journal
of Global Optimization (special issue on Supply Chain Optimization,
2002).
- Associate editor of International Journal of Inventory Research (2006-present).
- Associate editor of Journal
of Global Optimization (1994-present).
- Invited session
chairman: INFORMS 2007, INFORMS 2006, ISMP 2006, INFORMS International 2006, IERC 2006, INFORMS 2005, IFORS 2005,
SIAM Optimization 2005,
INFORMS 2004, INFORMS 2001, INFORMS Maui 2001, ISMP 1997, ISMP 1994.
- Invited cluster
organizer: INFORMS 2007, INFORMS International 2007, INFORMS 2001.
- Panel member for
proposal review, National Science Foundation.
- External reviewer for Marsden Fund of The Royal Society of New Zealand,
National Institutes for Water Resources, Swedish Research Council.
- Referee for numerous
scientific journals.
- Member of INFORMS, MPS, VVS
(NGB), and AAPM.
Research Activities
- Supply chain management;
in particular: customer/warehouse allocation and production and inventory
planning under dynamic demand.
- Design of radiation
therapy treatment plans for IMRT.
- Asset/Liability
Management, in particular for pension funds.
- Probabilistic analysis
of combinatorial problems.
- Network flow problems in
infinite networks.