Operations Research at Purdue


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Vaneet Aggarwal

Vaneet Aggarwal

Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Supervised learning

Reinforcement Learning

Large Language Models

Quantum Machine Learning

Applications in Networking, Transportation, Robotics, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Biomedical, and Climate

Stephan Biller

Stephan Biller

Harold T. Amrine Distinguished Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering & Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business Director of Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises
Research Interests

Digital-Industrial Strategy, Business and Financial Models

Resilient and Sustainable Manufacturing & Supply Chains

Production Systems, Operations Management, Enterprise Systems

Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, AIoT

Digital transformation, Digital Twins

Energy Transition & Transportation

Innovation Commercialization & Go-to-Market @Scale

Danial Davarnia

Danial Davarnia

Research Interests

No topics listed for Operations Research.

Joaquín Goñi Cortes

Joaquín Goñi Cortes

Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering - Joint Appointment with Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests

Complex Systems

Graph Theory and Network Science

Information Theory

Neuroimaging and Brain Connectomics

Syed Helmi

Syed Helmi

Professor Of Engineering Practice, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering; Joint appointment with the School of Engineering Education
Research Interests

Operations and Supply Chain Strategy

Smart Manufacturing and Process Optimization

Digital Twin and Predictive Simulation (Discrete Events and System Dynamics)

Engineering Learning Innovation and Pedagogy

Harsha Honnappa

Harsha Honnappa

Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Analysis of stochastic models

Optimal design and control of stochastic systems

Model estimation and inverse problems for stochastic models

Generative modeling

Space operations

Manufacturing and service operations

Susan Hunter

Susan Hunter

Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Stochastic optimization

Multi-objective optimization under uncertainty

Simulation modeling and analysis

Applied probability and statistics

Liwei Jiang

Liwei Jiang

Assistant Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Nonlinear Optimization

Nonsmooth Optimization

Stochastic Optimization

Data Science and Learning

David Johnson

David Johnson

Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering - Joint Appointment with Political Science
Research Interests

Decision-making under uncertainty (climate change adaptation & environmental policy)

Flood risk modeling

Sustainable agriculture

Environmental risk communication and decision support tools

Multi-criteria tradeoff analysis

Charles Robert Kenley

Charles Robert Kenley

Professor of Practice Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Quantitative methods for systems engineering

Modeling and simulation methods for systems engineering

Programmatic risk management and risk analysis

Cost and schedule forecasting for technology development

Bayesian methods

Effectiveness of systems engineering management methods and processes

Reem Khir

Reem Khir

Assistant Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Logistics and transportation planning

Supply chain analytics

System modeling and optimization

Robust and stochastic optimization

Machine learning for constrained optimization

Nan Kong

Nan Kong

Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Joint Appointment with Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Stochastic integer programming/global optimization under uncertainty

Scheduling, resource allocation, and capacity planning in healthcare and supply chain applications

Computational modeling of disease and disease management

Computational image processing/hyperspectral imaging/compressive sensing

Andrew Liu

Andrew Liu

Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Interactions of optimization

Game theory and Industrial organization (applications to energy markets and environmental policy)

Nagabhushana Prabhu

Nagabhushana Prabhu

Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Nonlinear optimization and its applications

Eigenvalue computation of large sparse matrices

Computational oncology

Soliton physics

Gesualdo Scutari

Gesualdo Scutari

Pedro and Barbara Granadillo Professor, Edwardson School Industrial Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests

Distributed and Large-scale Optimization

Computational Game Theory

Variational Inequalities

Machine Learning

Big Data Analytics

Applications in Communications, Networking, Signal Processing, and Sensor Networks

Sivaranjani Seetharaman

Sivaranjani Seetharaman

Assistant Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Control systems

Machine learning

Networks

Energy

Transportation

Cyber-physical systems

J Shanthikumar

J Shanthikumar

Richard E. Dauch Chair in Manufacturing and Operations Management, Courtesy Appointment in Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Production system modeling and analysis

Queueing theory and applications

Reliability and probability theory

Scheduling and sequencing

Simulation methodology

Stochastic processes and modeling

Young-Jun Son

Young-Jun Son

James J. Solberg Head and Ransburg Professor of Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Real-time Control of Smart Factory and Extended Enterprises via Digital-Twin

Modeling Human Decision-Making (Extended Belief-Desire-Intention Model)

Multi-paradigm Simulations (agent, discrete event, system dynamics, virtual reality)

Modeling and Control of Emerging Applications (Emergency Evacuation, Healthcare, UAV/UGV Coordination, Social Network)

Mario Ventresca

Mario Ventresca

Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Spread of pandemic diseases through populations (local to global scale, e.g., Zika, COVID-19)

Spread of antigenically variable pathogens (local to global scale, e.g., Influenza H3N2)

Deriving and optimizing vaccination distribution strategies/public health policies (including equity)

Influence of social media messaging on health policy acceptance

Utilization of ML for policy discovery

Use of network science for trust in healthcare collaborative networks

fMRI data analysis via network science

Network science, operations research, stochastic modeling, ML, algorithm design and analysis

Miaolan Xie

Miaolan Xie

Assistant Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Stochastic Optimization

Data Science

Nonlinear Optimization

Machine Learning

Algorithms

Applications in Healthcare

Zhe Zhang

Zhe Zhang

Assistant Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Stochastic Optimization

Distributed Optimization

Machine Learning

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