Yingying
Kang; graduated 5/11. Dissertation title: “Value-at-Risk Models for
Hazardous Material Transportation.” Co-advisor was C. Kwon. Job Placement: Analyst, Southern Pacific
Railroad Company, Atlanta, GA.
Frank Muffali;
graduated 4/11. Dissertation title: “Simultaneous
Sensor Selection and Routing of
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Complex
Mission Plans.” Co-advisor was R. Nagi. Job Placement: Analyst, Praxair, Inc.,
Tonawanda, NY.
Wanyan
Yu; graduated 2/11. Dissertation title: “Search for an Entity on
a Network.” Job Placement: Analyst, Bloomberg Financial Services, Inc., New
York.
Yen-Hung Lin;
graduated 8/10. Dissertation title:
“Delivery of Critical Items in a Disaster Relief Operation: Centralized and
Distributed Supply Strategies.” Co-advisor
was P. Rogerson.
Job Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Industrial
Engineering, University of Arkansas.
Amruth
Sivalenka; graduated
5/10. Dissertation title: “Pricing and
Expiration Management in Apartment Industry.” Job Placement: Vice President,
Rainmaker Group, Atlanta.
Elif
Tokar-Erdermir; graduated
10/08. Dissertation title: “Location-covering
models: Nodal and path demand, multiple-type facilities, unavailability of
servers.” Co-advisor was P. Rogerson. Job Placement:
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of
Minnesota.
Justin T. Yates; graduated 8/08.
Dissertation title: “Network-based Risk Mitigation and Resource
Evaluation in the Transportation of Hazardous Materials and Terrorist Threat.” Co-advisor was M. Karwan. Job Placement: Assistant Professor,
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University.
Xiaofeng
Nie: graduated
7/08. Dissertation title: “Optimization
and Resource Allocation Models in an Aviation Security System.” Job Placement:
Postdoctoral Associate, School of Business, McGill University.
Min Zhang; graduated
11/07. Dissertation title: “Designing
the Layout and Routing of a Manufacturing Facility to Mitigate Workflow
Congestion.” Co-advisor was R. Nagi. Job placement:
Operations Research Analyst, AVIS-Budget Rent-a-Car, New York, New York.
Jomon
Paul; graduated 8/06. Dissertation title: “Study of Effects of
Facility Damage on Hospital Capacity Estimates and Location-Allocation Planning
for Management of Natural Disasters.”
Co-advisor was L. Lin. Job placement:
Visiting Assistant
Professor, Kennesaw State University, Georgia.
Arun Jotshi; graduated 8/06.
Dissertation title: “Search for an Immobile Entity on a Network.” Job
placement: Operations Research Analyst, AT&T Corporation, Morristown, New
Jersey.
Abhay
Joshi; graduated 2/06. Dissertation title: “Optimization Approaches
to Network Toplogy Design for Dynamic Distributed
Wireless Sensing in a Hostile Environment.”
Co-advisor was R. Nagi. Job Placement: Operations Research Analyst, Curbell Inc., Orchard Park, New York.
Jayasankar Neelakantan; graduated 9/05.
Dissertation title: “Strategies for Clearance-Markdown Optimization in
the Retail Industry.” Co-advisor was A. Gosavi. Job
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University, Georgia.
Qiang Gong;
graduated 9/05. Dissertation title: “Responding
to Casualties in a Disaster Relief
Operation: Initial Ambulance Allocation and
Reallocation, and Switching of Casualty Priorities.” Job Placement: Operations Research Analyst,
United Airlines, Chicago, Illinois.
Mohan R. Akella; graduated 2/05.
Dissertation title: “Base Station Location and Channel Allocation
Problems in Cellular Network Design.”
Job Placement: Operations Research Analyst, Triology,
Inc., Bangalore, India.
Simin Huang, graduated 9/04. Dissertation
title: “The Connection/Location Problem and its Application to Supply Chain
Design.” Co-advisor was R. Nagi. Job Placement:
Postdoctoral Associate, School of Business, University of Toronto.
Avijit Sarkar; graduated 9/04.
Dissertation title: “Finite-Size Facility Placement in the Presence of
Generalized Congested Regions.”
Co-advisor was R. Nagi. Job Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor,
University of Toledo.
William J. Frank;
graduated 9/01. Dissertation title: “On Investigating the Effect of Temporal Link
Parameters on Hazmat Route Selection.”
Job Placement: Postdoctoral
Associate, CMIF Lab, University at Buffalo (SUNY).
Vedat Akgun; graduated 2/01.
Dissertation title: “Routing
Hazardous Materials in the Presence of Weather Systems.” Co-advisor was C. Rump. Job Placement: Senior System Analyst, Emery Worldwide
Airways.
Abdul Sarac; graduated 2/01.
Dissertation title: "Daily
Operational Aircraft Maintenance Routing Problem." Co-advisor was C. Rump. Job Placement: Operations Research Analyst,
United Airlines, Chicago, Illinois.
Shoou-Jiun Wang;
graduated 9/00. Dissertation title: "Optimal Police Enforcement Allocation -
A Socio-Economic Model of Criminal Geographic Displacement." C. Rump was a co-advisor. Job placement: First USA Bank, Wilmington,
Delaware.
Selcuk Savas; graduated 9/00.
Dissertation title: "A
Spatial Modeling Perspective to Problems in Facilities Design.” R. Nagi was a
co-advisor. Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Koc
University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Qian Wang;
graduated 9/00. Dissertation title: "Discrete Facility Location Design with
Stochastic Customers and Immobile Servers." Co-advisor was C. Rump. Job Placement: Senior Operations Research Specialist, Synquest, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Christopher Oboth; graduated 2/97.
Dissertation title:
"Conflict-Free Routing of Automated Guided Vehicles: A Simulation
Study." M. Karwan was a
co-advisor. Job Placement: Lecturer, Makede University, Uganda.
Peiwu Zhao;
graduated 6/96. Dissertation title: "Analysis of Aggregation Effects in
Location Problems." Job Placement:
OR Analyst, ESRI Corporation, San Bernadino,
California.
Ramprasad T. Narasimhan; graduated 1/96.
Dissertation title:
"Conflict-Free Routing and Scheduling of Automated Guided
Vehicles." M. Karwan was a
co-advisor. Job Placement: Analyst,
Corporate Research, United Airlines, Chicago, Illinois.
Linda Chattin; graduated 9/94.
Dissertation title:
"Maximizing Expected Coverage Using State Sensitive Dispatch
Assignments." Job Placement: Lecturer, Department of Industrial
Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo.
Alok Baveja; graduated 9/93.
Dissertation title:
"Crackdowns on Drug Markets."
M. Karwan was a co-advisor. Job
Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Management Science, Rutgers,
Camden, New Jersey.
Thomas D. Hill;
graduated 9/93. Dissertation title: "Equity Constrained Preventive Police
Patrolling." Job Placement:
Lecturer, Dept. of Ind. Engg., SUNY at Buffalo.
Honghua Jin; graduated
9/93. Dissertation title: "Routing of Hazardous Materials: A
Probabilistic Perspective." M.
Karwan was a co-advisor. Job Placement:
Systems Analyst, U.S. Steel Corporation, Gary, Indiana.
Dake Sun; graduated
9/93. Dissertation title: "Dynamic
Job Shop Scheduling: An Integrated Approach." Li Lin was a co-advisor. Job Placement: OR Analyst, AVIS Rent-a-Car,
New York, New York.
Raj A. Sivakumar; graduated 9/92.
Dissertation title:
"Transportation of Hazardous Materials: A New Modeling
Perspective." M. Karwan was a co-advisor. Job Placement: Senior Analyst, Corporate
Research, United Airlines, Chicago, Illinois.
Mary Helander; graduated 9/92.
Dissertation title: "A
Discrete Framework for Modeling and Analyzing HIV Transmission
Dynamics." Job Placement: Assistant
Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Information Systems,
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Mamnoon Jamil; graduated 6/91.
Dissertation title: "The 1-Center Problem with Queueing." Job Placement: Assistant Professor,
Department of Management Science, Rutgers, Camden, New Jersey.
Robert F. Dell;
graduated 9/90. Dissertation title: "Development of Equitable Vehicle Routes
for Overnight Parcel Deliveries." M. Karwan was a co‑advisor. Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Operations
Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
Nirup N. Krishnamurthy;
graduated 9/90. Dissertation title: "Modeling Blocking in Automated Guided
Vehicle Systems." M. Karwan was a co‑advisor.
Job Placement: Analyst, Corporate
Research, United Airlines, Chicago, Illinois.
Wilfred V. Huang;
graduated 2/87. Dissertation title:
"The Effects of Special Cost Functions and Promotion in Locational Decisions."
Job Placement: Assistant
Professor, Division of Industrial Engineering, Alfred University, Alfred, New
York.