Ph.D. Program Graduate Students (51 records)
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Majid Al-Gwaiz
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Maya Bam
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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
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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
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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
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has a pending patent in heat-exchanger network designs.
Academic Advisor: Xiuli Chao
Position Sought: Industry, consulting
Availability: May 2013 |
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Maya Bam is a first year PhD student, interested in healthcare applications of operations research, particularly in scheduling and resource allocation.
Advisor(s): Brian Denton, Mark Van Oyen
Position Sought: academic, research, industry
Availability: 2017
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Christine Barnett
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Christopher Best
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Christine Barnett is a first year PhD student, and she is interested in healthcare applications in operations research. Her research is focused on investigating the health and economic implications of biomarker tests, which physicians use for the early detection and monitoring of many different types of cancer. The particular focus of her research will be the development of an optimal active surveillance strategy for prostate cancer.
Academic Advisor: Brian Denton
Position sought: Research, Government
Availability: 2016 |
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Katharina Best
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Rebecca Britten
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Katharina Best'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
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Rebecca Britten's research interests focus on adapting Toyota Production System (TPS) to non-manufacturing environments. This research includes modeling and analysis relating to warehouse layout, order picking/batching heuristics, technology usage, and general operational processes within distribution centers. Also, she is interested in how the overall supply chain structure and design impacts activities within the distribution centers. Current research projects include: (1) Lean Order Picking in Automotive Service Part Distribution Centers, (2) Attitudes of Technology in Automotive Service Part Distribution Centers, (3) Case study of Toyota Service Part Distribution.
Advisor(s): Professor Liker & Professor Bozer
Availability: May 2014
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Shi Cao
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Vernnaliz Carrasquillo
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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) Human performance and cognitive modeling:
Theoretical and usability development of QN-ACTR, an integrated cognitive architecture and cognitive engineering tool modeling cognitive multi-task scenarios that previous methods have difficulties to model;
(2) Healthcare human factors:
Quantitatively modeling the effects of physician multitasking on the quality of medical diagnosis;
(3) Transportation human factors:
Modeling driver behavior and skill learning, e.g., in multi-task scenarios involving complex cognitive tasks.
He is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and serves as a reviewer for Behaviour and Information Technology and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans.
Academic Advisor: Yili Liu
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: 2013
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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
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Academic Advisors: Tom Armstrong and S. Jack Hu
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: Fall 2014 |
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Jeremy Castaing
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Eren Cetinkaya
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Jeremy Castaing's field of interest is scheduling for satellites and airlines
Advisor(s): Amy Cohn
Position sought: industry
Availability: Spring 2017
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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 |
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Boxiao Chen
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Zhihao Chen
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Beryl (Boxiao) Chen's research focuses on revenue management and inventory management, such as dynamic pricing, customer behavioral analyses and multi-echelon inventory problems. She is also interested in sustainability issues and their impact on the performance of supply chain, which is inspired by a summer intern project with Ford Motor Company to consider the societal cost of satisfying greenhouse emission constraints.
Advisor(s): Prof. Xiuli Chao and Prof. Hyun-Soo Ahn
Position sought: academic, industry
Availability: Summer 2015
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Zhihao Chen's research is in stochastic programming.
Advisor: Professor Siqian Shen
Position sought: Academic, research, industry
Date of availability: May 2016 |
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Youngjun Choe
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Jivan Deglise-Favre-Hawkinson
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Youngjun Choe's research interest is in applied statistics for wind energy. Specifically, he is currently working on optimization of computationally expensive stochastic simulation by which one wants to estimate a rare event probability. Application of the method would impact various fields but the current approach is focused on the estimation of extreme physical loads on a wind turbine which involves complex aerodynamic simulations.
Advisor(s): Eunshin Byon
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: 2015
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Jivan Deglise-Hawkinson's research focuses on developing new methodologies based on operations research and systems models that use information technology to provide longitudinal health care coordination in settings for which there are time-sensitive care protocols that require multiple visits over time with specific resource needs (e.g. cardiologist, rheumatologist, LPN, RN, chair, room, ...). Such settings occur in the treatment of many chronic diseases and for the conduct of clinical research trials. The methodology incorporates multi-visit patient flow models and metrics' forecasting 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, the University of Michigan Rheumatology Division, Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ypsilanti, and Mayo clinic in Rochester, MN.
Academic Advisor: Mark P. Van Oyen
Position Sought: Government, Research or Industry
Availability: 2015
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Yan Deng
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Fang Dong
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Yan Deng's field of interest is Integer programming and stochastic optimization.
Advisor(s): Siqian Shen
Position sought: faculty, research
Date of availability: June 2016 |
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Fang Dong's research focuses on the design, control, and optimization of manufacturing and service systems. My current work specializes in the design and control of flexible queueing systems with application to shipbuilding. The approach is to introduce flexibility and Constant Work in Process (CONWIP) concepts to shipbuilding through the use of queueing theory, stochastic control, statistical analysis, and simulation to analyze the systems and optimize the key performance measures such as cost, throughput, work in process, and cycle time. Besides shipbuilding, she also endeavors to develop research frameworks that are broadly applicable to a diverse set of systems with similar fundamental dynamics, including manufacturing/service systems, supply chain models, and global healthcare delivery systems.
Academic Advisor(s): Mark P. Van Oyen and David J. Singer
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: April 2013 |
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Chate Eamrungroj
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David Escott
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David Escott's research focus is on Stochastic Programming and Network Programming using Mixed Integer Linear Programs. Application areas are currently focused on scheduling and facility location problems for Cloud Computer infrastructures and MapReduce algorithms.
Advisor(s): Siqian Shen
Position Sought: Faculty, Research, Industry
Availability: 2015
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Fred Feng
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Rosemarie Figueroa
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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: May 2014 |
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Rosemarie Figueroa is a 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 scalable 3D biomechanical hand model using technology such as CT-Scans and MRI's. She worked in human factors and Industrial Engineering area for companies such as Medtronic, General Electric and Nissan.
Academic Advisors: Tom Armstrong
Position Sought: Industry, Academic
Availability: Fall 2016
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Weihong Guo
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Young-Chae Hong
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Weihong Grace Guo's research is mainly in the area of statistical quality control methods with applications in complex production and manufacturing systems. She joined the IOE department in 2010 fall with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University, China. Her ongoing research focuses on integrating statistical process control and automatic control for ultrasonic welding of battery tabs. She is now working on a collaborative research project with General Motors Advanced Vehicle Manufacturing Lab at the University of Michigan.
Advisor(s): S. Jack Hu and Judy Jin
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: June 2015
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Young-Chae Hong's research interests are in the area of large-scale optimization problems. He is currently working on optimization algorithms that can be used to improve the scheduling process for residents in hospitals. He has research experience on heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem using a column generation approach.
Academic Advisor: Amy Cohn
Position Sought: Academic, Industry
Availability: 2016 |
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Sean Huber
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Pooyan Kazemian
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Pooyan Kazemian's current research is focused on developing broadly applicable methods to improve monitoring, control and management of patients with chronic diseases. The primary focus of his research is open-angle glaucoma, a major cause of blindness worldwide. If successful, the results of this research will indicate to clinicians when glaucoma progression has occurred and how chronic diseases such as glaucoma are likely to progress. In addition, the results will provide a recommendation on when to next monitor the patient, which test(s) to take, and which intervention should be considered by a physician to get the disease state as close to the target as possible. Such knowledge will improve the health outcomes of the population and also result in cost containment.
Pooyan's past research was on reducing medical errors in hospital, thereby improving patient outcomes. In collaboration with Mayo Clinic, he developed a new patient-centered decision support system that leverages integer programming methods to design on-call schedules for residents and fellows which minimize number of patient handoffs, therefore reduce medical errors due to communication breakdown, while complying with all mandatory duty-hour standards, providing required coverage, and maintaining physician quality of life.
Pooyan's research interests are in the area of applied operations research, optimization, stochastic control, Markov decision process and Kalman filtering.
Advisor(s): Mark Van Oyen
Position Sought: Research, Industry, Consulting
Availability: June 2015
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Gregory James King
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Jeff Kritzman
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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 |
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Jeffrey Kritzman's research is focused on operations research, with an emphasis on logistical and scheduling problems, especially as applied to healthcare. He is currently working with Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital to improve ICU utilization. He previously worked at Epic, where he gained much practical knowledge of the healthcare industry.
Advisor(s): Mark Van Oyen
Position Sought: Academic, Research, Industry, Consulting
Availability: 2017 |
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Ilbin Lee
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Elliot Lee
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Ilbin Lee's research interest is the optimization of complex systems and its application to large-scale optimization problems. His ongoing research is linear programming approach to Markov decision processes with countably infinite number of states and simplex algorithm for countably infinite linear programs.
Academic Advisors: H. Edwin Romeijn and Marina Epelman
Position Sought: Summer Internship
Availability: 2014 |
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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
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Troy Long
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Sara Lu
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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 third-year candidate and is interested in optimization, modeling, and algorithms with healthcare applications.
Academic Advisor: Edwin Romeijn
Position Sought: Industry, Academia
Availability: 2015 |
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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 |
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Kayse Maass
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Nadine Moacdieh
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Kayse Maass is a first year PhD student, and she is interested in healthcare applications in operations research. Her research is focused on large scale optimization and decomposition methods that will enable mathematical models to efficiently incorporate rich data generated by big data.
Advisor(s): Mark Daskin
Position Sought: Academic, Research, Industry
Availability: Summer 2017
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Nadine Moacdieh's research is in cognitive ergonomics and focuses on attention management and augmented cognition in complex, data-rich environments. She is currently working on developing eye-tracking-based display adaptation techniques to support users during stressful, off-nominal situations. She is also involved in a project to improve the location and grouping of information on NextGen primary flight displays.
Academic Advisor: Dr. Nadine Sarter
Position sought: Academic
Availability: June 2015 |
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Patrick Nestor
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Jie Ning
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Patrick S. Nestor's fields of interest are Operations Research, Economic Markets, Game Theory
Advisor(s): Izak Duenyas
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: 2017 |
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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 |
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Fei Peng
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Brandon Pitts
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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
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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, and has an
Engineer Intern License (E.I.T.) with the state of Louisiana.
Academic Advisor: Nadine Sarter
Position Sought: Academic, government
Availability: June 2016
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Julie Prinet
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Saumuy Puchala
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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
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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.
Advisor(s): Prof. Jack Hu
Position sought: academic, research, industry
Availability: Jan 2013 |
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Robert Riggs
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Amir Ali Sadrpour
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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 |
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Greggory Schell
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Kathryn Schumacher
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Greggory Schell’s research focuses on the management of chronic disease through operations research and statistical modeling/analysis. His current applications include the monitoring of glaucoma and treatment decisions for coronary heart disease. He is especially interested in the role of resource scarcity in global health systems.
Academic Adviser: Mariel Lavieri
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: May 2015
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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 |
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Samantha Scotland
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Brendan David See
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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,
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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 |
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Emily Speakman
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Zohar Strinka
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Emily Speakman's field of interest is all areas of optimization, specifically discrete optimization. Her current work involves exploring new ways of maximizing submodular functions.
Advisor(s): Professor Jon Lee
Position sought: Academic, Research or Industry
Date of availability: Summer 2017 |
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Zohar M.A. Strinka's research is in the area of supply chain optimization under uncertainty and focuses on supplier choice problems. These problems consider the tools available to suppliers in choosing which subset of customers to serve. Examples of these problems include market selection problems and supplier-run auctions. These problems are studied using a variety of tools including stochastic optimization and game theory. 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 |
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Kathryn Tippey
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Victor Wu
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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
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Victor Wu's field of interest/research: He is interested in large-scale and stochastic optimization in healthcare applications. Currently, he is working on developing stochastic optimization models in radiation therapy treatment planning and algorithms to solve those models.
Advisor(s): Edwin Romeijn and Marina Epelman
Position Sought: Industry, Academia
Availability: May 2016
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Nattavut Yampikulsakul
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Denny Yu
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Nattavut Yampikulsakul's research interest is in the diagnosis of wind power systems under non-stationary weather conditions. He received his undergraduate degree in computer science with a minor in economics and a master's degree in operations research from Columbia University.
Advisor(s): Eunshin Byon
Position Sought: Academic
Availability: N/A (under a job contract with Thai Government)
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Denny Yu's research focuses on developing models that describe complex surgical procedures and developing 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) linking surgical technique with patient outcomes; (3) quantifying surgical work postures; and (4) design and assessment of alternative displays on surgeon performance and fatigue. In addition to academic research, he has completed internships conducting needs assessments for surgical device design in China and interfacing KinectTM motion tracking with 3D-Static Strength Prediction Program. He has also been involved as a teaching fellow for the College of Engineering and designs physics labs for Ypsilanti High School.
Academic Advisor: Professor Tom Armstrong
Position Sought: Academic, Industry
Availability: Early 2014 |
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Hao Zhou
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Denny Yu's research focuses on developing models that describe complex surgical procedures and developing 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) linking surgical technique with patient outcomes; (3) quantifying surgical work postures; and (4) design and assessment of alternative displays on surgeon performance and fatigue. In addition to academic research, he has completed internships conducting needs assessments for surgical device design in China and interfacing KinectTM motion tracking with 3D-Static Strength Prediction Program. He has also been involved as a teaching fellow for the College of Engineering and designs physics labs for Ypsilanti High School.
Academic Advisor: Professor Tom Armstrong
Position Sought: Academic, Industry
Availability: Early 2014 |
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Hao Zhou is working on using optimization techniques in building Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), particularly in using Vehicle-to-Vehicle, Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communication and dynamic toll pricing to reduce traffic congestions.
Advisor(s): Romesh Saigal
Position Sought: Research, Industry
Availability: June 2013
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