Ph.D. Program Graduate Students (53 records)

Majid Al-Gwaiz
Ph.D. Program

Brian Anthony
Ph.D. Program

Majid M. Al-Gwaiz is currently researching energy systems management through the development of operations research models. His research interests include the optimal production, allocation, and pricing of energy utilities such as fossil fuels and electricity. He has ongoing research in the areas of (1) energy trading, (2) facility design and operations, and (3) contract designs between utility providers and users. Majid has worked on energy systems design in Saudi Aramco Energy Company before starting his PhD. program and his research goals are to contribute to energy conservation and emissions reduction efforts. He has authored and co-authored chemical process design papers in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the Foundation of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD), and has a pending patent in heat-exchanger network designs.

Academic Advisor: Xiuli Chao
Position Sought: Industry, consulting
Availability: May 2013

Christopher Best
Ph.D. Program

Rebecca Britten
Ph.D. Program

Shi Cao
Ph.D. Program

Vernnaliz Carrasquillo
Ph.D. Program

Shi Cao focuses his research on modeling human performance and mental workload in complex human-machine interactions using computational cognitive architectures. He has ongoing research in the areas of (1) theoretical and usability development of QN-ACTR, an integrated cognitive architecture and cognitive engineering tool; (2) quantitatively modeling the effect of physician multitasking on the quality of medical diagnosis; (3) modeling driver behavior in multitask scenarios involving complex cognitive tasks. He is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and serves as a reviewer for the HFES conference and Behaviour & Information Technology.

Academic Advisor: Yili Liu
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: April 2013

Vernnaliz Carrasquillo is a second year PhD student in the area of ergonomics. She has eight years of experience as a design engineer of interior components in the automotive industry. Now she is focusing her work in researching the effects of variations in manufacturing on ergonomic stresses.

Academic Advisors: Tom Armstrong and S. Jack Hu
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: Fall 2014

Eren Cetinkaya
Ph.D. Program

Boxiao Chen
Ph.D. Program

Eren Cetinkaya is a PhD candidate in the interdepartmental degree program combining the programs in Industrial and Operations Engineering and the Operations and Management Science at Ross School of Business. In his research, Eren develops and analyzes mathematical models related to supply chain management, inventory and capacity management, and resource allocation. He is also interested in using game-theoretical models to explore competition and collaboration between firms. Moreover, he has research experience in mixed integer nonlinear and derivative-free optimization methods. He has teaching experiences in statistics, management science, production and inventory analysis and lean manufacturing, having taught both engineering and business majors. Previously he has worked with Schlumberger-Doll Research and with Siemens AG.

Academic Advisor: Izak Duenyas
Position Sought: Consulting, industry
Availability: August 2011

Boxiao Chen is now a first-year PhD student in the department of IOE. Her research will focus on operations research, supply chain management and financial engineering.

Academic Advisor: Xiuli Chao
Position Sought: Academic, industry
Availability: May 2015

Youngjun Choe
Ph.D. Program

Jivan Deglise-Favre-Hawkinson
Ph.D. Program

Youngjun Choe's research interest is in applied statistics for wind energy. As a first year Ph.D. student, he is currently working on the simulation of wind turbine extreme loads. He received a B.S. in Physics (2010) and a B.S. in Management Science (2010) from KAIST in South Korea, where he graduated summa cum laude.

Academic Advisor: Eunshin Byon
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: 2015

Jivan Deglise-Hawkinson is a 2nd year PhD student in the IOE department. His research focuses on developing new methodologies based on operations research and systems models that use information technology to provide longitudinal health care in settings for which there are time-sensitive care protocols that require multiple visits over time with tight constraints on the times at which they occur and which resources are needed (e.g. cardiologist, rheumatologist, LPN, RN, chair, room, ...). Such settings occur in the treatment of many diseases (such as lupus) and for the conduct of clinical research trials. The methodology incorporates multi-visit patient flow models into an optimization framework for static planning (capacity management as well as control of incoming flows of patients) as well as for real-time dynamic scheduling. We currently have a partnership with the Michigan Clinical Research Unit (MCRU) within the CVC as well as the Cancer Center, who are interested in using the user-friendly IT software currently being developed to increase access to care, reduce overtime and under-utilization costs, and increase opportunities to gain clinical and research knowledge.

Academic Advisor: Mark P. Van Oyen
Position Sought: Government, Research or Industry
Availability: 2015

Fang Dong
Ph.D. Program

Chate Eamrungroj
Ph.D. Program

Fang Dong's research focus is on the developing a flexible production paradigm & effective operations control in the ship building process through an integrated planning and execution control model, to mitigate the cost growth and excessive construction times in shipbuilding. She has ongoing research in the areas of (1) Introduce operational flexibility to the ship block assembly process and formulate this problem as a flexible controlled queueing network. (2) Develop a planning model integrated with the flexible block assembly workshops and ship final assembly system to achieve a control model of the shipyard manufacturing system. (3) Propose new criteria and control policies for the flexible planning model. Quantify the value of flexibility and develop production scheduling heuristics in simulation. (4) Use Linear Programming, Markov Decision Process, and Queueing Theory to mathematically analyze the flexible system. (5) Design the long-range workload plan and supply chain network to stabilize the industrial shipbuilding system.

Academic Advisor: Mark P. Van Oyen and David J. Singer
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: June 2012

Fred Feng
Ph.D. Program

Rosemarie Figueroa
Ph.D. Program

Fred Feng's research interests include computational modeling of human cognitive systems and human-machine interactions. His ongoing research is to use the queuing network approach to quantitatively model the human visual search behavior.

Academic Advisor: Yili Liu
Position Sought: Academic, industry
Availability: June 2013

Rosemarie Figueroa is a first year PhD student focusing on physical ergonomics, with a special interest in rehabilitation. She is interested in the improvement and development of technology used by physicians to benefit people with special needs. Her research focus is on developing a hand model that will be scalable for hand size and shape, with scalable skeletal system and considers skin friction. She performed projects in human factors and general Industrial Engineering work for companies such as Medtronic, General Electric and Nissan.

Academic Advisors: Tom Armstrong
Position Sought: Industry, Academic
Availability: Fall 2016

Weihong Guo
Ph.D. Program

Jonathan Helm
Ph.D. Program

Weihong Grace Guo's research focuses on the design and analysis of statistical quality control methods, reliability and DOE with applications in complex production and manufacturing systems. Being a first year Ph.D. student right now, she joined the IOE department in 2010 fall with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University, China. During her undergraduate studies, she worked on a Student Research Training program on the modeling and simulation of repair systems with rotable parts, and her undergraduate thesis was also in this topic.

Academic Advisors: S. Jack Hu and Judy Jin
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: June 2015

Jonathan Helm's research program aims to improve the delivery of healthcare, both at the system level and the individual patient level, through the development of advanced operations research and operations management methods and the translation of those methods into practical decision support tools and managerial insights. His thesis work develops stochastic models of patient flow and associated arrival processes (a class of stochastic arrival-location models) to analytically capture the workload across a network of disparate healthcare resources. This allows for tractable optimization to coordinate a network of services in a variety of patient flow systems. This work won the POMS CHOM Best Paper Competition, is under 2nd revision at Operations Research, and has led to a commitment from two major hospital partners for implementation. We currently have a pilot outpatient flow design project at the Mayo Clinic and a collaboration to design and implement a bed management system for the National University Hospital of Singapore (NUH). He also works in developing linear Gaussian systems models and novel optimization approaches for chronic disease progression. He collaborates with faculty from the Univ. of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center on applications to glaucoma (under review at Operations Research). Jonathan was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a Bonder Fellow, and is currently a University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Predoctoral Fellow.

Academic Advisor: Mark P. Van Oyen
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: June 2012

Brock Husby
Ph.D. Program

Xiaoning Jin
Ph.D. Program

Brock Husby is a PhD Candidate whose research focuses on the translation and application of Lean/Toyota Production System (TPS) principles and methods to healthcare. With the continually increasing costs of healthcare, decreasing reimbursement and patient's ability to pay, and changing patient demographics and medical conditions, the need for healthcare organizations to simultaneously improve patient care while increasing their operational efficiencies have never been greater. At the same time, the traditional approaches to achieving these seemingly contradictory outcomes in healthcare have proven ineffective. Therefore, the relevance of Lean/TPS approaches, which have proven effective at improving quality and efficiency simultaneous in manufacturing and other industries, is significant. In order to maximize the effectiveness of Lean/TPS in a healthcare context, a detailed analysis of the unique characteristics of healthcare institutions in relation to Lean/TPS is necessary and is the primary motivation for his research. He is currently conducting healthcare research into (1) Lean/TPS leadership and change management, (2) integrating Lean/TPS continuous improvement methods, and (3) the use of Lean/TPS improving the effective selection, deployment, and integration of technology. For a Resume/CV and other information on his research, please visit his website at: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/bhusby/home

Academic Advisor: Jeffrey K. Liker
Position Sought: Academic (in parallel with current position at the Altarum Institute)
Availability: May 2011

Xiaoning Jin's research is mainly in the area of manufacturing system operational management and decision making. Her ongoing research mainly focuses on two topics: 1) End-of-life Li-ion electric vehicle battery options decision making (i.e., remanufacturing, recycling, refurbishing and secondary use application) to recapture the residual value of the used batteries. 2)Optimal control and performance evaluation of a re-assemble to order system in the remanufacturing environment where supply is the product/component returns with significant uncertainties in timing, quantity and quality and multi-class demand. She is now working on a collaborative research project with GM R&D and this collaborated project is sponsored by Department of Energy (DOE).

Academic Advisors: S. Jack Hu and Jun Ni
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: May 2012

Pooyan Kazemian
Ph.D. Program

Gregory James King
Ph.D. Program

Pooyan Kazemian's research is focused on improving patient safety in hospitals using operations research techniques. He is currently helping Mayo Clinic to develop new schedules for residents and fellows in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to reduce medical errors due to patient handoffs. Pooyan's research interests are in the area of mathematical programming, optimization, and stochastic systems control. Healthcare is his primary application area.

Academic Advisor: Mark Van Oyen
Position Sought: Industry
Availability: June 2015

Greg is interested in applications of stochastic dynamic programming and game theory to problems from manufacturing, business, and health care. Within this framework, he has research projects in three different direct application areas. The first is prescription drug choice, where he is actively working on a problem that analyzes the impact of drug coupons on patient drug selection, drug manufacturer profits, and total healthcare spending. The second is in the area of customer acquisition and retention. Motivated from a position Greg held working in sales strategy at a small company in Massachusetts; the research looks at how a company should balance the tradeoff between acquisition and retention of profitable customers. The third research projects uses game theory to analyze an optimal stopping problem with two players. The model has applications in business, where it can predict the timing of mergers or acquisitions, and in health care, where it predicts the timing of organ transplants. Outside of these three areas, Greg has broad research interests in important problems from across the spectrum of application domains. He has extensive industry experience, including two years as a senior business analyst at a small lending company and a summer associate position at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, and his academic background involves degrees from Cornell University and Michigan and a study abroad experience at the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Program.

Advisors: Xiuli Chao and Izak Duenyas
Positions Sought: Academic, Industry
Availability: Summer 2013

Marcial Lapp
Ph.D. Program

Ilbin Lee
Ph.D. Program

Marcial Lapp is a Ph.D. candidate in the Industrial and Operations Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. His research is based in the areas of Operations Research and Production, Distribution & Logistics with a focus on large-scale mathematical optimization with applications to transportation, specifically the airline industry. His has ongoing research in the following areas: (1) integrating airline scheduling for robustness and recovery, (2) exploring fuel and emission efficiencies in airline planning processes and (3) developing new pricing models within airline revenue management. He also conducts research in the area of Engineering Education with a focus on improving large undergraduate classroom climate through new methods of student engagement. He holds a Masters degree in Industrial & Operations Engineering, as well as a Masters and Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. For a complete CV and list of publications and presentations, please visit his personal website at http://www.umich.edu/~mlapp

Academic Advisor: Amy Cohn
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: Summer 2012

Ilbin Lee's research interest is the optimization of complex systems and its application to large-scale optimization problems. His ongoing research is application of the sampled fictitious play (SFP) algorithm and also seeking theoretical contributions to SFP and its variants.

Academic Advisors: Robert L. Smith and Marina Epelman
Position Sought: Summer internship
Availability: 2014

Elliot Lee
Ph.D. Program

Katharina Ley
Ph.D. Program

Elliot Lee's research is focused on developing screening policies for patients at risk for liver cancer. He is currently developing statistical models to predict the development of liver cancer, with hopes of creating dynamic learning models to optimize screening scheduling. His are primarily in healthcare applications in operations research.

Academic Advisor: Mariel Lavieri
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: 2016

Katharina Ley's research focuses on understanding the dynamics of the college education market in the United States as well as the effect of loans and credit on decisions made by students, parents, lenders, and institutions of higher education. She has worked on creating simple models of supply and demand structures that may help schools, parents, and policy makers to better understand this complicated market given the limited data that are available. She is currently working on creating better models of student loan defaults that take into account secondary market data on student-loan backed securities as well as time series data of default behavior. Governments and institutions of higher education needs to address rising tuition costs and student debt levels in order to prevent artificial price inflation and a decline in competitiveness of the US higher education system. Future research will continue to explore effectiveness of aid and new sources of information on defaults.

Academic Advisor: Jussi Keppo
Position Sought: Academic, policy analysis, finance
Availability: August 2013

Huiyang Li
Ph.D. Program

Qiang Li
Ph.D. Program

Huiyang Li's research interests are in human factors/cognitive ergonomics, engineering psychology and human-computer interaction. She has worked on specific topics such as human-automation interaction, health informatics, multi-modal human-computer interface, attention and interruption management, voice alarm, evacuation behavior and cultural issues in usability test. Her dissertation research focuses on the design of automation schemes and interfaces for automated system in complex data-rich domain. More specifically, she is developing a hybrid approach which could take advantages of both adaptive and adaptable automation, as well as designing interfaces to support operator's awareness of the system in dynamic function allocation. The results will contribute to the knowledge base in human-machine interaction and have a significant impact on the approach to, and the success of, future automation design. Huiyang is a member of IEEE and The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and was the Co-President of the student chapter of HFES at the University of Michigan. She has also served the college and university community in leadership at levels of the Industrial and Operations Engineering Department, the College of Engineering and University-wide student organizations.

Academic Adviser: Nadine Sarter
Position Sought: Academic and non-academic research
Availability: 2012

Qiang Li's research focus is on Quality Engineering and Applied Statistics: Statistical Learning, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing and Image Data Analysis with applications in forming manufacturing processes. He has ongoing research in the areas of 1) online classification of surface defects in hot rolling processes; 2) repeating defect pattern detection in hot rolling processes; 3) vibration monitoring in hot rolling processes based on image-processing methods.

Academic Advisor: Judy Jin
Position Sought: Industry
Availability: August 2011

Troy Long
Ph.D. Program

Sara Lu
Ph.D. Program

Troy Long's research is focused on treatment planning for radiation therapy. He has worked on lexicographic optimization for IMRT with an emphasis on sensitivity analysis. Currently he is working on beam orientation optimization for IMRT, as well as other low-cardinality optimization problems in radiation therapy treatment planning. He is a second-year student and is interested in optimization, modeling, and algorithms with healthcare applications.

Academic Advisor: Edwin Romeijn
Position Sought: Academic, Industry
Availability: 2015

Sara A. Lu's research is in cognitive ergonomics and focuses on task sharing, attention management, and interruption management in complex environments. She has ongoing research in the areas of: (1) multimodal interface design (such as redesigning cockpit displays for NextGen operations) and (2) cognitive processing limitations (such as change blindness and inattentional blindness). Applications include various data-rich domains such as the aviation industry, the medical domain, military operations, nuclear industry, and the automotive industry. She has also extended her work to the medical domain, primarily the Neonatal ICU, addressing the issues of effective teamwork and collaboration in healthcare.

Academic Advisor: Nadine Sarter
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: June 2014

Tim Maull
Ph.D. Program

Nadine Moacdieh
Ph.D. Program

Nadine Moacdieh is interested in the field of human factors and cognitive ergonomics. She is currently investigating the factors that affect the shape and size of the primary field of view. The aim of this project is to support better attention management and thus design better airplane cockpits for the next generation of airplanes.

Academic Advisor: Nadine Sarter
Position Sought: Academic, government
Availability: June 2015

Dan Nathan-Roberts
Ph.D. Program

Jie Ning
Ph.D. Program

Dan Nathan-Roberts conducts research in Cognitive Ergonomics under the guidance of advisor Dr. Yili Liu. Dan Nathan-Roberts' primary focus is on quantifying both the aesthetic ergonomic and physical ergonomic considerations involved in the physical design of hand-held medical devices and mobile phones using Interactive Genetic Algorithms. Dan's research interests include both physical and cognitive ergonomics, including; aesthetic ergonomic design, multimodal interface design, human computer interface research, automation and robotic interface support, hedonomics, and related fields. He is interested in applying his research in a wide variety of domains, such as medical devices, mobile phones, office ergonomics, and quantitative device design. An active HFES member, and attendee of the AAMI/HE 75 Medical Device Standard meetings, Dan has conducted research at the University of Rochester in cognitive science, the University of California Ergonomics Program primarily in physical ergonomics, Intel's digital health division in telemedicine, and the US Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) on non-clinical medical device human factors, and has served as an invited panelist on medical device human factors and standards by government and private organizations.

Academic Advisor: Yili Liu
Position Sought: Academic, government
Availability: June 2011

Jie Ning's interests lie in empirical research on the interface of financial economics and operations, particularly asset pricing under uncertainties. Her research projects include: (1) pricing demand risks in supply chain outsourcing under just-in-time contracts, collaborating with a Norwegian auto-parts supplier. Results of this research show risk-pooling effects and will improve supplier's position in negotiations with original equipment manufacturers; (2) pricing technical services offered by Xerox to its customers covering all the printers' supplies and maintenance costs, in collaboration with Xerox. This project is expected to provide a systematic way of determining the service price accounting for the uncertainties on maintenance costs. Jie is a member of Institute for Operations Research and Management Science.

Academic Advisors: Romesh Saigal and Jussi Keppo
Position Sought: Industry
Availability: December 2011

Hoda Parvin
Ph.D. Program

Kamran Paynabar
Ph.D. Program

Hoda Parvin is a PhD candidate in the IOE department. Her research focus is on employing stochastic dynamic programming techniques to solve real world problems. Currently she is working on three research application areas: (1) characterizing optimal assignment policies in queueing networks with limited server flexibility and impatient customers, (2) developing heuristic algorithms to benefit from flexibility in manufacturing setups, and (3) optimizing the deployment of malaria treatments in underdeveloped countries given demand uncertainty. She spent two summers in the IBM T.J.Watson Research Lab developing enhanced job routing policies for large-scale information technology service centers. The findings of her research resulted in registering a patent for lean dispatching techniques. She served on the INFORMS student chapter's executive board at the University of Michigan for two years. For her excellent academic performance she has been the recipient of several fellowships and awards including the Bonder fellowship, the NSF GRS fellowship, the STIET fellowship, the Rackham Merit fellowship and the Judith Liebman Award. She also collaborates with several faculty and students from other schools including the Ross School of Business and the School of Public Health.

Academic Advisor: Mark P. Van Oyen
Position Sought: Academic and non-academic research
Availability: November 2011

Kamran Paynabar's research focuses on the development and application of data mining and statistical methods for quality improvement in complex manufacturing and healthcare systems. He has ongoing research in the areas of system modeling, monitoring, and fault diagnosis through (1) improving the analysis of nonlinear single- and multi-channel waveform sensing signals using the nonparametric approaches; (2) monitoring the binary mortality data of surgical operations using risk-adjusted methods; (3) modeling and analysis of continuous human body movement profile data using functional data analysis approach to predict the ease of vehicle ingress and egress. He has been awarded 2010 Wilson Prize for the best paper in manufacturing systems and is a finalist for 2010 INFORMS Pierskalla Award for the best research paper in healthcare. He holds a Masters degree in Statistics from University of Michigan.

Academic Advisor: Judy Jin
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: August 2011

Fei Peng
Ph.D. Program

Brandon Pitts
Ph.D. Program

Fei Peng is a Ph.D. candidate in the area of Operations Research. His research interest lies in the design and optimization of large-scale systems, with special focus on treatment plan optimization for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). His ongoing research projects include: 1). robust IMRT treatment plan optimization; 2). treatment plan optimization for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT). He also has research experience in multi-fleet vehicle routing problems.

Academic Advisors: Edwin Romeijn and Marina Epelman
Position Sought: Industry
Availability: May 2013

Brandon Pitts' research focuses are in the field of human factors and cognitive ergonomics. He is currently working to better understand multimodal information processing, cross-modal interference, and interface design in data-rich real-world domains, e.g. aviation, medicine, and automotive. Brandon is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). He holds a bachelor of science in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana State University.

Academic Advisor: Nadine Sarter
Position Sought: Academic, government
Availability: June 2016

Julie Prinet
Ph.D. Program

Robert Riggs
Ph.D. Program

Julie Prinet conducts research in Cognitive Ergonomics under the guidance of Dr. Nadine Sarter. Julie's research is in cognitive ergonomics and human factors. She focuses on interruption management, task sharing and attention management, and multimodal interfaces design. She is currently working with 1) the Air Force on a multiple-UAV control interface design project, and 2) the FAA on the New Generation cockpit design project. Application domains include aviation and military operations.

Academic Advisor: Nadine Sarter
Position Sought: Industry, non-academic or academic research
Availability: June 2016

Robert J. Riggs' research focuses on the application and development of operations research models with applications in efficient assembly and disassembly methods and reconfigurable remanufacturing configurations with high product variety.

Academic Advisor: S. Jack Hu
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: June 2014

Amir Ali Sadrpour
Ph.D. Program

Soroush Saghafian
Ph.D. Program

Soroush Saghafian's research focus is on the application and development of operations research methods in modeling and control of stochastic systems with specific applications in (a) healthcare operations, (b) operations management, and (c) control of queueing systems. He has ongoing research in the areas of (1) modeling and optimal control of patient flow in Emergency Departments to (a) overcome overcrowding, (b) improve length of stay and time to first treatment of patients, and (c) improve safety metrics, (2) optimal design and control of flexible queueing systems and stochastic networks with applications in service centers, (3) effective mechanisms for mitigating disruption risks in supply chains, and (4) control of production systems with an emphasis on product recovery and sustainable operations. Since 2008, he has been working with some of the medical faculties of Emergency Department of University of Michigan Hospital to optimize and redesign their patient flow. He has been awarded the 2010 INFORMS Pierskalla Award for best research paper in healthcare, the 2010 Murty Prize for best research paper in Optimization, and the 2007 IOE Bonder Fellowship award for applied Operations Research. He was also among the four finalists for 2009 best student paper award of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). At the University of Michigan, he has taught IOE 440 (Operations Analyses and Management) as the primary instructor in both 2009 and 2010 and has had more than 150 graduate and undergraduate students. Prior to joining University of Michigan, he has taught courses in Applied Probability Theory and Plant Layout as a primary instructor. He has been a referee for various journals including Operations Research Letters, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and Production and Operations Management.

Academic Advisors: Mark P. Van Oyen and Wallace J. Hopp
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: June 2012

Gregory Schell
Ph.D. Program

Kathryn Schumacher
Ph.D. Program

Greggory J. Schell's research is currently on operations research applications to the degenerative eye disease, glaucoma. As a first year Ph.D. student, he has not had the opportunity to expand his research into other fields. His intentions are to pursue the application and development of operations research models to healthcare issues.

Academic Adviser: Mariel Lavieri
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: May 2015

Kathryn Schumacher's research focuses on developing optimization algorithms that can be used to design or operate a reliable power grid. Specifically, she has done research on the problem of where to install transmission capacity and is currently working on a security constrained unit commitment problem when transmission switching is allowed. She is also interested in problems that arise when renewable energy sources are integrated into the larger power grid, and how these problems can be mitigated with appropriate planning. Kathryn has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a Rackham Merit Fellowship.

Academic Advisor: Amy Cohn
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: Spring 2014

Samantha Scotland
Ph.D. Program

Brendan David See
Ph.D. Program

Brendan D. See's research focuses on supply chain management problems, with an emphasis on procurement. His ongoing research addresses procurement strategies when a buyer is faced with supply bases that are differentiated by non-price attributes such as qualification status, expected quality level, or production capacity. In his research, Brendan incorporates both operations research and economics techniques, such as auction theory and mechanism design. He is also interested in the applications of operations research to health care, and has studied hospital admissions scheduling and staffing issues in response to pandemic influenza. Brendan served as a summer associate at the RAND Corporation and has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a STIET Fellowship, and a Rackham Merit Fellowship. For a CV and more information, please visit his website at http://www.umich.edu/~bdsee.

Academic Advisors: Izak Duenyas and Damian Beil
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: August 2013

Zohar Strinka
Ph.D. Program

Saumuy Suriano
Ph.D. Program

Zohar M.A. Strinka's research focus is on supply chain optimization under uncertainty. Currently her focus is on market selection problems. She has dual bachelor's degrees from Purdue University in Industrial Engineering and Physics.

Academic Advisor: H. Edwin Romeijn
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: June 2015

Saumuy Suriano's research interests are in developing and applying statistical methodologies to monitor, diagnose, control and improve complex manufacturing systems. Her thesis research is focused on using spatial statistics techniques to perform product quality inferences and diagnosis from High Definition metrology.

Academic Advisor: S. Jack Hu
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: May 2012

Kathryn Tippey
Ph.D. Program

Adam Wadecki
Ph.D. Program

Kathryn Tippey is a second year PhD student with a concentration in cognitive ergonomics. Her research is currently geared towards analysis of electronic health care records systems.

Academic Advisor: Nadine Sarter
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: 2015

Adam A. Wadecki's research is centered on contemporary topics in finance, including supply chain management, private equity finance, and venture capital finance. His current research examines: 1) the impact of manufacturer-level competition and the use of shared suppliers on manufacturer profitability; 2) spillover effects of venture capital financing, including formation of new startups and receipt of venture capital financing; and 3) determinants of venture capital fundraising, including research and development expenditures and IPO financing. Adam is also co-author of Private Equity: History, Governance, and Operations (John Wiley & Sons, 2008) and of a forthcoming text, Fundamentals of Private Equity Finance (Yale University Press, 2011). Outside of academia, he has served as a consultant with engagements focused on operational improvement initiatives, due diligence, business turnaround, forensic accounting, and accounting/auditing malpractice.

Academic Advisor: Jussi Keppo
Position Sought: Industry
Availability: June 2011

Arleigh Waring
Ph.D. Program

Nattavut Yampikulsakul
Ph.D. Program

Arleigh Waring is a Ph.D. candidate in the Industrial and Operations Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. She has research interests in supply chain management, logistics and planning, and optimization. Arleigh's current research project applies financial risk management tools to extensions of the classic newsvendor problem. Arleigh has additional interests in education research, specifically K-12 evaluation and assessment, high school college preparedness, and engineering education.

Academic Advisor: H. Edwin Romeijn
Position Sought: Industry, government, non-profit
Availability: Summer 2011

Nattavut Yampikulsakul's research interest is in the area of optimization and algorithms, such as network design, logistics and transportation. He received his undergraduate degree in computer science with a minor in economics and a master's degree in operations research from Columbia University.

Academic Advisor: H. Edwin Romeijn
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: N/A (under a job contract with Thai Government)

Li Yang
Ph.D. Program

Denny Yu
Ph.D. Program

Li Yang's research focuses on the development and application of stochastic modeling and control in traffic engineering and finance. He has ongoing research in the areas of (1) data-driven stochastic highway traffic flow modeling and its application in the dynamic congestion pricing problem. The objective is trying to find the optimal congestion pricing policy maximizing expected the highway's throughput under the uncertainty of demand. (2) Optimal execution trading strategy under the market impact of the trades. (3) Stochastic modeling of spectrum utilization.

Academic Advisor: Romesh Saigal
Position Sought: Industry
Availability: December 2011

Denny Yu's research focuses on the developing models that describe complex surgical procedures and the development of tools that help assess best practices in surgeon in terms of patient outcomes and surgeon performance. He has ongoing research in the areas of (1) hierarchical task analysis for describing surgical procedures (2) assessment of surgical technique with patient outcomes, and (3) evaluation of visual aids on surgeon performance and comfort in microsurgery. He has a proceeding published in Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2010 Conference and has a manuscript in development.

Academic Advisor: Professor Tom Armstrong
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: June 2013

Hao Zhou
Ph.D. Program

Denny Yu's research focuses on the developing models that describe complex surgical procedures and the development of tools that help assess best practices in surgeon in terms of patient outcomes and surgeon performance. He has ongoing research in the areas of (1) hierarchical task analysis for describing surgical procedures (2) assessment of surgical technique with patient outcomes, and (3) evaluation of visual aids on surgeon performance and comfort in microsurgery. He has a proceeding published in Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2010 Conference and has a manuscript in development.

Academic Advisor: Professor Tom Armstrong
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: June 2013

Hao Zhou's research focuses on application of optimal control and operations research methods to traffic system. He is currently studying the effect of installing Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) system in cars, which enables vehicles exchanging their location, speed, road condition information with each other. The goal is to improve the car following algorithm so that we can 1) improve the safety 2) increase the capacity of highway by reducing the distance between vehicles 3) increase the fuel efficiency of vehicles by eliminating unnecessary acceleration and deceleration 4) achieve higher ride quality. He is currently collaborating with Professor Dion in UMTRI and working on a project simulating autonomous vehicle driving system.

Academic Advisor: Professor Romesh Saigal
Position Sought: Academic, industry
Availability: June 2013

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