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ISyE Expert Guide
This Guide is a resource to help reporters and journalists easily identify faculty and staff at Georgia Tech’s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) who are available to discuss a variety of topics.
ISyE employs some of the world’s most experienced researchers in their fields who enjoy sharing their perspectives on a wide variety of topics. The guide is grouped by topics with faculty listed alphabetically by last name and their particular expertise directly under the topic area.
You may contact our faculty directly or if you would like assistance in setting up an interview or need more information, contact Barbara Christopher.
Economic Decision Making, Financial Engineering
- Shabbir Ahmed - portfolio optimization, risk models
- Julie Swann - revenue management and pricing, pricing in performing arts and entertainment, promotions and demand management in the automobile industry, pricing and leadtimes in manufacturing, demand management in service systems
Engineering Education
- Augustine Esogbue - fostering a research culture in engineering education with special focus on underrepresented groups, mentoring and optimal strategies for increasing diversity in academic institutions, capacity building and training of trainers in developing economies
- Joel Sokol - capstone engineering design course structure and management, teaching operations research
- Pinar Keskinocak - industrial engineering education focusing on societal impact
- Amy Pritchett - cognitive engineering, design of educational technology
Environment, Energy, and Sustainability Going Green
- Kobi Abayomi - sustainability indexes
- Ozlem Ergun - recycling network design
- Augustine Esogbue - environmental systems modeling and optimization, nonpoint source water pollution control planning, low-level energy nuclear waste disposal studies
- Ellis Johnson - sustainability of air transportation
- Leon McGinnis - green supply chains
- Valerie Thomas - environmental and energy impact of products, recycling, smart trash, greenhouse gas policy, emissions trading, nuclear power and nuclear arms control, renewable energy, energy efficiency, bio fuels
- Craig Tovey - sustainability measurement
- Chen Zhou - energy consumption in the cold chain and the packaging design in supply chain
Health and Humanitarian Logistics
- Ozlem Ergun - decentralized control strategies, logistics planning, collaboration, coordination among multiple agencies
- Augustine Esogbue - Global healthcare delivery systems engineering-modeling, control and optimization; safe drinking water projects for developing economies; human capacity building; disaster control planning with integrative systems and human centric tools; optimal response strategies for large scale systems.
- Pinar Keskinocak - decentralized decision making, demand management, inventory control, supply chain design and management, hospital operations modeling, immunization scheduling, infectious disease modeling, disaster preparedness and response
- Eva Lee - public health and emergency response, disaster medicine, homeland security and counter-terrorism, tactical, operational and strategic planning, population health protection, medical countermeasures dispensing, biosurvelliance, large-scale response logistics
- Julie Swann - disaster planning and response, global emergencies, inventory control, forecasting, supply chain design and management, public health, influenza pandemic, resource allocation, decentralized control strategies and demand management
- John Vande Vate - supply chain design
Health Systems
- Augustine Esogbue - healthcare delivery systems engineering-modeling and optimization intelligent control strategies, patient safety in hospitals, computer aided decision models for diagnosis and patient treatment decision systems, resource allocation in cancer research, optimal scheduling of capital intensive resources including surgery and anesthesia administration
- Pinar Keskinocak - hospital modeling, emergency response systems
- Eva Lee - healthcare systems modeling, information technology, medical decision making and quality assurance, operation and process efficiency and cost-effectiveness in healthcare delivery, health risk analysis, public health and emergency response systems, early disease prediction and diagnosis, optimal treatment strategies and drug delivery, healthcare outcome analysis and treatment prediction, population health, large-scale medical and public health informatics
- Julie Swann -public health modeling
- Kwok Tsui - healthcare and public health surveillance, disease spread simulation, health system informatics
International Programs and Initiatives
- Greg Andrews - Executive Master’s Degree in International Logistics and Supply Chain Strategy
- Harvey Donaldson - overall coordinator for all international programs
- Augustine Esogbue - collaborative programs to strengthen African institutions including universities, technical institutes and National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine
- Jaymie Forrest - Latin America initiatives
- Ellis Johnson - Shanghai Jiao Tong masters degree program
- Don Ratliff - Latin America research initiatives
- John Vande Vate - Executive Master’s in International Logistics and Supply Chain Strategy
- Chen Zhou - Beijing-Singapore undergraduate study abroad and Singapore dual degree
Manufacturing
- Augustine Esogbue -intelligent and hierarchical control methods, scheduling, equipment maintenance and replacement
- Marc Goetschalckx - global manufacturing systems, global supply chain design, facilities design, logistic systems, warehousing, production and distribution planning
- Jye-Chyu "JC" Lu - manufacturing system informatics and control, semiconductor and nano-manufacturing
- Leon McGinnis - network centric manufacturing systems, socio-technical analysis of global manufacturing networks, model based systems engineering in manufacturing
- Jianjun “Jan” Shi - variation reduction in complex manufacturing systems, analysis of multistage manufacturing processes, design and operations of manufacturing systems, stream of variation theory and application
- Chen Zhou - manufacturing system control
- Kwok Tsui - process and product design optimization, process control and variability reduction
Medical O.R. and Biostatistics
- Shabbir Ahmed - radiation therapy planning
- Augustine Esogbue - computer aided anesthesia administration, fuzzy decision models for medical diagnosis
- Eva Lee - biomedical informatics, real-time medical decision support systems, data-mining and large-scale analysis, predictive health, disease modeling, early diagnosis and prediction, optimal treatment design and drug delivery, target intervention and treatment outcome prediction
- Julie Swann - influenza pandemic, hiv, hepatitis C, screening and cost-effectiveness
Nanotechnology
- Paul Kvam - reliability in nanomanufacturing
- Jye-Chyu "JC" Lu - reliability in nano-manufacturing should be changed to system informatics, quality and reliability in nano-manufacturing
Natural Systems
- John Bartholdi - ants; the logistics system of social insects as models for human logistics
- Craig Tovey - honeybees and internet servers
Optimization
- Shabbir Ahmed - stochastic and discrete optimization theory, computation and applications in supply chain and logistics, risk management, medicine
- Bill Cook - traveling salesman problem, computational methods
- Ozlem Ergun - heuristics, local search
- Augustine Esogbue - dynamic programming- serial and nonserial, fuzzy, and adaptive dynamic programming; dynamic programming for the real world; intelligent control; applications to manufacturing, water resources and healthcare
- Marc Goetschalckx - applications in facility locations, supply chain, manufacturing and distribution network design, capacity planning
- Xiaoming Huo - dynamic programming, fast implementation
- Ellis Johnson - combinatorial optimization applications in resource scheduling
- Pinar Keskinocak - combinatorial optimization applications in manufacturing, transportation, coordinating robot teams
- Eva Lee - Combinatorial optimization and integer programming, large-scale optimization and decision models theory, computation, and applications in medicine and healthcare
- Leon McGinnis - optimization on demand using formal models and model transformation technology
- George Nemhauser - integer programming applications in resource and sports scheduling, logistics, supply chain transportation
- Don Ratliff - applied optimization modeling logistics, transportation, resource/production scheduling, network design
- Alex Shapiro - mathematical programming
- Craig Tovey - combinatorial optimization applications in robot planning
- Joel Sokol - applied optimization modeling sports, logistics, transportation, resource/production scheduling, network design
Quality and Reliability
- Nagi Gebraeel - prognostics and sensor-based operational and logistical decision making
- Paul Kvam - reliability, applied engineering statistics
- Jye-Chyu "JC" Lu - statistics for manufacturing, reliability, system modeling
- Jan Shi - in-process quality improvement
- Kwok Tsui - quality control, statistical process control, robust design and process improvement, prognostic and health management
Statistics: SPC, data mining, computer model validation, forecasting
Resource Scheduling
- Ozlem Ergun - airline and liner shipping scheduling
- Marc Goetschalckx - production and distribution planning, transportation planning
- Ellis Johnson - airline scheduling
- Pinar Keskinocak - production and transportation scheduling
- George Nemhauser - sports scheduling, transportation scheduling
- Amy Pritchett - safety of complex systems, aviation operations, cognitive engineering, decision support, design of educational technology
Safety and Security
- Greg Andrews - air cargo, ocean, truck and rail security regulations, customs compliance, CTPAT, 10 plus 2, 24-hr advanced manifesting
- Alan Erera - freight transportation security
- Eva K Lee - homeland security and defense: surveillance and detection, biodefense, radiological emergency, medical countermeasures, counter-terrorism strategical and operational planning, large-scale response logistics, population protection, design of resilient critical infrastructure.
- Amy Pritchett - safety of complex systems
- Chip White - risk mitigation
Simulation
- Sigrun Andradottir - optimization via simulation, simulation output analysis, simulation of infectious diseases
- Leon McGinnis - simulation on demand using formal models and model transformation technology
Sports and Entertainment Modeling
- George Nemhauser - professional and college league scheduling and NCAA tournament prediction
- Joel Sokol - NCAA tournament prediction, optimal use of resources by sports franchises, basketball player valuation and batting orders, NFL tiebreaker system
- Julie Swann - revenue management, ticket sales, pricing, performing arts pricing
Statistics
- Kobi Abayomi - statistical dependence
- Nagi Gebraeel - failure prediction modeling, degradation modeling
- Xiaoming Huo - data mining, statistical computing, multi-scale methods, wavelets
- Paul Kvam - reliability, applied engineering statistics
- Jye-Chyu "JC" Lu - industrial statistics, reliability, data mining
- Alex Shapiro - sensitivity analysis
Stochastics
- Sigrun Andradottir - applied probability application: agile production and service systems
- Augustine Esogbue - fuzzy and stochastic systems hybridization-modeling and optimization, applications
Supply Chain Management and Strategy
- Greg Andrews - global supply chains, global sourcing, finished goods distribution, contract manufacturing, third party logistics, vendor management, inventory management
- John Bartholdi - temperature-controlled supply chains
- Ozlem Ergun - collaborative logistics
- Marc Goetschalckx - global supply chain design
- Pinar Keskinocak - revenue management, pricing and promotion strategies and auction design, contract design, gaming and strategic interactions in the supply chain, inventory managements, collaboration and coordination, lead time management
- John Langley - optimizing supply chain strategy, third party logistics
- Jye-Chyu "JC" Lu - large scale system approximation for supply-chain and logistics decisions
- Leon McGinnis - network centric manufacturing systems design and analysis; integrating production and sustainment
- Don Ratliff - designing, synchronizing, optimizing supply chains, trade facilitation, logistics performance, perishables and cold chain systems, Latin American logistics
- Julie Swann - contracting strategies and collaboration, forecasting and inventory control, pricing and revenue management, demand management in manufacturing and service systems
- John Vande Vate - International Logistics and Supply Chain Strategy, matching supply with demand
Supply Chain Technology
- Jaymie Forrest - logistics information systems, warehouse management systems, transportation management systems, network design tools, transportation planning and scheduling, route planning and scheduling, rating systems
- Don Ratliff - SOA, web services, route planning, optimization, transportation management systems, SC network, design tools, inventory planning systems
Systems Science and Engineering
- Augustine Esogbue - systems engineering; safety systems engineering-fundamentals, tools, and applications to space systems, manufacturing and socio-technical systems including patient safety and health care
- Eva K. Lee - complex systems modeling, systems re-design, organizational transformation, design of resilient and adaptive critical infrastructure and systems
- Leon McGinnis - model based systems engineering, SysML
- Amy Pritchett - safety of complex systems, aviation operations, cognitive engineering, decision support, design of educational technology
System Informatics and Control
- Nagi Gebraeel - systems monitoring and prognostics
Transportation Logistics
- Greg Andrews - international logistics, import/export compliance, trade regulations, transportation management, 3rd party logistics, small parcel/package freight, port management, Intermodal and rail transportation
- Alan Erera - freight transportation trucking, rail, and ocean , logistics systems planning and control, vehicle routing
- Ozlem Ergun - logistics network design, truck/plane/ship route
- Jaymie Forrest - freight transportation, transportation planning and scheduling, technologies, supply chain design
- Marc Goetschalckx - routing and supply chain design, global supply chain design
- Ellis Johnson - airline scheduling, fleet management
- Pinar Keskinocak - air cargo revenue management, vehicle scheduling
- George Nemhauser - transportation scheduling and routing
- Amy Pritchett - safety of complex systems, aviation operations, cognitive engineering, decision support, design of educational technology
- Don Ratliff - routing and supply chain design, technologies
- John Vande Vate - international logistics, automotive logistics
- Chip White - enabling information technology for improved logistics
Warehousing and Distribution
- Greg Andrews - WMS-TMS selection, implementation, payback
- John Bartholdi - layout, slotting, order-picking, bucket brigades, cold supply chains, wine supply chains
- Marc Goetschalckx - warehouse design, warehouse location and routing design
- Leon McGinnis - warehouse design workflow, formal models for warehouse design and analysis
- Chen Zhou - order picking and system design
Water Resources Systems
- Augustine Esogbue - water resources systems analysis and optimization, multi-purpose reservoir systems output scheduling and optimization, urban water pollution non-point source modeling and control
