I advise students in the OREM department’s doctoral programs: the Doctor of Philosophy in Operations Research (PhDOR) and Doctor of Engineering in Engineering Management (DEEM). I have also advised students in the Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Engineering (PhDSE) program.
Current Students
| Student | Degree | Dissertation Title |
| Peter Furseth | PhDOR | Sales-Force Territory Design |
| Jorge Sugranes | DEEM | Design, Fabrication, and Performance Evaluation of a Miniaturized Desktop Smart Pharmaceutical Factory |
Alumni
| Student | Degree | Dissertation Title |
| Adreana Julander | PhDOR 2024 | Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics for Minimizing the Cost of Recidivism |
| Yulan Bai | PhDOR 2022 | Compact Formulation of Multicommodity Network Flows With Applications to the Backhaul Profit Maximization Problem and Fixed Charge Network Flow Problem |
| Adam Colley | PhDOR 2022 | Heuristics for Capacity Allocation and Queue Assignment in Congested Service Systems With Stochastic Customer Demand and Immobile Servers |
| Zhou (Jeremy) Chen | DEEM 2022 | Optimization of Commute Time and Competition in Sports League Design |
| Laura Vu | DEEM 2022 | Value-Oriented Business Process Management: Using a Process Re-engineering Approach to Identify Productivity Improvement Requirements and Justify Strategic Capital Investment |
| Justin Brown | PhDSE 2021 | A Methodology for Reliability-Based Selection of System Of Systems |
| Colin Wasiloff | DEEM 2018 | Maximizing Financial Benefit of Lean Six Sigma Through Optimized Selection Criteria |
| Erik Loen | DEEM 2017 | Private, Public, Or Hybrid: An AHP Model For Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) Cloud Strategy Selection For Enterprises And Software Development Organizations |
| Yuanyuan Dong | PhDOR 2015 | The Stochastic Inventory Routing Problem |
| Omotayo Olabumuyi | DEEM 2015 | Application of Optimization Methods to Bachelor’s Degree Planning |
| Razan Kattoa | DEEM 2015 | Inventory Cost Reduction with Improved Demand Estimation Using the tBISA Distribution |
| Laith Abu Hilal | DEEM 2014 | Decision Support Tools For Supply Chain Optimization In The Supermarket Industry |
| Derreck Holian | DEEM 2014 | Optimization Models for Flight Test Scheduling |
| Brandon Ha | PhDOR 2013 | Renewable Energy Integration for Hybrid Power Systems: Analysis and Optimization Algorithms |
| Christopher Davis | DEEM 2012 | Comparison Of The Analytic Hierarchy Process And Incomplete Analytic Hierarchy Process For Identifying Customer Preferences In The Texas Retail Energy Provider Market |
| Asad Ata | PhDOR 2011 | Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Flexible Manufacturing Capacity Assignment For New Product Introductions |
| Levent Kaan | PhDOR 2011 | The Vanpool Assignment Problem: Analysis and Optimization |
| Rick James | DEEM 2011 | Strategic Outsourcing for Manufacturing Firms |
| Tauhid Rahman | DEEM 2008 | Improving Telecommunications Network Throughput By Incremental Demand Routing |
| Gerard Ibarra | PhDSE 2007 | A Systems Engineering Approach to a Method and Mathematical Model for Identifying the Most Critical Links of Highway Systems |
| Nanthi Suthikarnnarunai | DEEM 2007 | Improving Transportation Service for the University of The Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC) |
| Charles C. Stein | DEEM 2004 | An Analytic Hierarchy Process Methodology to Combine Multiple Preferences with Data Normalization Effects in a Data Envelopment Analysis Model |