Faculty & Projects

Applications of Optimization

Modeling Tools

Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization

Stochastic and Dynamic Optimization

Game Theory and Equillibrium Models

Faculty & Projects
Browse through the links on the right to explore current topics on optimization research, organized by Faculty Member.

Moshe Dror, MIS

Active Projects:


Areas of Interest:
  • Vehicle routing & scheduling
  • Generalized combinatorial problems
  • Interactive MOLP
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Guzin Bayraskan, SIE

Active Projects:
  • Parallel Computing and Algorithms for Stochastic Optimization
Areas of Interest:
  • Stochastic Programming
  • Monte Carlo Simulation-based Optimization
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Jitamitra (Jita) Desai, SIE

Active Projects:
  • Development of stochastic discrete optimization models and algorithms for sequential network interdiction
  • Global optimization approaches for reliable network design problems
  • Addressing distributed autonomous MDO problems via derivative-free optimization techniques
  • Mathematical formulations and efficient algorithms for representing decision trees
Areas of Interest:
  • Global optimization/Nonconvex programming
  • Resource allocation problems
  • Mathematical modeling of decision trees and event trees
  • Parallel algorithms for multidisciplinary design optimization
  • Optimization in transportation networks and location theory
  • Semidefinite programming
  • Optimization software modeling and development
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Jeff Goldberg, SIE

Active Projects:

Areas of Interest:

  • Applied optimization modeling and solution
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Mark Hickman, CEEM

Active Projects:
  • NSF-Funded Routing Project
Areas of Interest:
  • Stochastic & time-dependent shortest paths
  • Path enumeration and pruning methods
  • Airline and transit passenger routing
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Simge Kucukyavuz, SIE

Active Projects:


Areas of Interest:
  • Integer Programming
  • Computational Optimization
  • Applications such as network design, supply chain management and logistics
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Kevin Lansey, CEEM

Active Projects:
  • EPA-Funded Metaheuristics for Water Systems; USGS-Funded Reservoir Optimization
Areas of Interest:
  • Metaheuristic development
  • Soil aquifer treatment systems
  • Water distribution systems
  • Reservoir Optimization
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Leonardo Lopes, SIE

Active Projects:


Areas of Interest:
  • Modeling: representing the essential aspects of concrete problems as (usually, but not always, mathematical) objects and using those objects to improve decsion-making.
  • Hedging: how to make decisions here and now which take into account: uncertainty about the future; and future opportunities to review policies.
  • Computational Optimization: developing algorithms that combine the right amount of mathematical theory and brute force to take advantage of modern computing architectures
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Pitu Mirchandani, SIE

Active Projects:
  • ATLAS (Advanced Traffic and Logistics Algorithms and Systems)
Other Areas of Interest:

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Samy Missoum , AME

Active Projects:
 
 
Areas of Interest:
  • Structural and Multidisciplinary optimization
  • Reliability-based and robust optimal design
  • Design of experiments and metamodeling techniques
  • Evolutionary optimization algorithms
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Stan Reynolds, ECON

Active Projects:

Areas of Interest:
  • Online auctions
  • Electricity policy
  • Game theoretic modelling of business strategy
  • Laboratory experimental tests of game theory models
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Suvrajeet Sen, SIE

Active Projects:
  • MURI: Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
Areas of Interest:
  • Modeling: telecommunications, power systems, transportation, & manufacturing
  • Linear, non-linear, large-scale and stochastic optimization
  • Please note that as of October 2006, Dr. Sen will be at Ohio State University.
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Ferenc Szidarovszky, SIE

Active Projects:


Areas of Interest:

  • Game theory
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Multicriteria decision making
  • Applications in natural resources management & economics
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