COMPUTATIONAL IE

Computational IE at Purdue

Opportunity lies at the intersection of data, networks, and algorithms, or programs. Where we once built programs optimized for a single processor, we will soon design new technologies to optimize systems still unimaginable.

Today we are in the midst of a revolution built on AI, machine learning, connected systems, and automation. In a Purdue lab today, a student team is building the next emerging, transformative tech revolution.

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CompIE Faculty
Vaneet Aggarwal

Vaneet Aggarwal

Reilly 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

Hua Cai

Hua Cai

Thomas and Jane Schmidt Rising Star Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering - Joint Appointment with School of Sustainability Engineering & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests

Carbon, water and material footprint of digitalization

Supply chain sustainability and resilience

Life cycle environmental impacts of emerging technology/system/service

System of systems (e.g., industry-agriculture-transportation-water-energy nexus)

Integrated system modeling at different scales

Zaiwei Chen

Zaiwei Chen

Assistant Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Reinforcement Learning

Learning in Games

Applied Probability

Optimization

Control

Danial Davarnia

Danial Davarnia

Associate Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Construction safety

Risk management

Decision making

Ana María Estrada Gomez

Ana María Estrada Gomez

Assistant Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Modeling, Monitoring, and Diagnosis of Multistage Manufacturing Processes Collecting High-dimensional Streaming Data: Adaptive Sampling Strategies for Online Monitoring

Directed Graphical Models for Root Cause Analysis

Joaquín Goñi Cortes

Joaquín Goñi Cortes

Juan Ernesto de Bedout Rising Star 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

Methods for simulation optimization –

optimization when the objective functions are defined implicitly through a Monte Carlo simulation model and can only be observed with stochastic error

Methods for multi-objective simulation optimization

Methods for two-stage multi-objective linear programs

Cost-effectiveness analysis

Liwei Jiang

Liwei Jiang

Assistant Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Nonlinear Optimization

Nonsmooth Optimization

Stochastic Optimization

Data Science and Learning

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 Systems Planning and Design: Developing optimization-based technology for dynamic decision making

Enhancing and streamlining operations using real-time analytics

Supporting planner-in-the-loop environments to facilitate human-AI interaction for effective decision-making

Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains: Performance and risk analysis of critical networks such as food supply chains in the defense industry

Designing transportation systems that trade off economic, environmental, and social goals

Methodology: System Modeling, Robust & Stochastic Optimization, Machine Learning for Optimization

Andrew Liu

Andrew Liu

Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Interactions of optimization

Game theory and Industrial organization, with applications to model and analyze 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

Approximation algorithms

Automated design and inference

Computational science and engineering

Discrete optimization

Machine learning

Medical operations research

Network science

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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