Operations Research and Analytics

Deterministic Optimization
• Convex relaxations and solution methods for mixed-integer nonlinear programs; interconnections between logical inference and integer programming.
Stochastic Optimization
• Parameter estimation techniques and statistical analysis of risk.
Application
• Network interdiction and transportation.

Research Projects
• Outer approximation for integer nonlinear programs via decision diagrams
• Unsplittable network flow problems: models and applications
• Bayesian solution estimators in stochastic optimization
• Consistency in integer programs

Nonparametric Statistics & Applications
• Nonparametric regression when errors are correlated
• Model selection methods for regression and density estimation
• Asymptotic analysis

Research Projects
• Combining Fluid Dynamics, Statistics and Pattern Recognition in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, to Quantify  Spatial Uncertainty and Remove Human Bias
• Correlated data analysis
• Long term memory processes

Deterministic and Stochastic Models
• Production decision making under uncertainty
• Renewable energy system design and analysis
Data Analytics and Optimization
• Data-driven shop floor scheduling and planning
• Resource planning and management for agriculture and plant breeding

Research Projects
• Engineering Crops for Genetic Adaptation to Changing Environments, supported by NSF
• FactBoard: Real-Time Data Driven Visual Decision Support  System for the Factory Floor, supported by DMDII
• Data Driven Highway Infrastructure Resilience Assessment, supported by MTC
• Development and Evaluation of Improved Strategies for Genomic Selection, supported by USDA

Statistical Machine Learning and data analytics
• Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling
• Clustering and classification
• Medical data analytics
• Quality assurance
• Data analytics in additive manufacturing (AM)

Research projects
• Similarity evaluation between surface topography data in AM
• Quality assurance and anomaly detection in AM
• Anomaly detection in the swine disease
• Readmission prediction
• Recurrent-event change-point detection and testing

Stochastic Optimal Control
• Engineering valuation of projects under uncertainty
• Optimal timing/Impulse control
• Real options
Sustainability Modeling
• Renewable energy generation and transmission planning
• Closed-loop supply chains
• Valuation of remanufacturing and supply contracts

Research Projects
• Valuation of Blockchain “ilities” such as traceability and irrefutability
• Engineering valuation of complex projects under uncertainties
• Complex project teaching & learning materials/visualization aids

Optimization
• Heuristic methods for discrete optimization
Data Analytics
• Predictive plant phenomics
• Data-driven production scheduling
• Data mining of incident reporting databases
• Sports analytics
Optimization/Data analytics
• Optimization-based methods for input engineering in data mining

Research Projects
• Decision support for plant breeding
• Expert system to improve data collection from law enforcement
• Predicting the hardness of new materials

Optimization Under Uncertainty
• Data analytics for formulating and verifying stochastic process models
• Risk considerations in capital investment and operational planning

Research Projects
• DataFEWSion Traineeship for Innovations at the Nexus of Food Production, Renewable Energy and Water Quality
• Analysis of Power System Operational Uncertainty from Gas System Dependence
• Closed Loop Supply Chain Design for Uncertain Carbon Regulations and Random Product Flows

Statistical Machine Learning
• Predictive Analytics
• Basic Theory for “Big Data” Methods
Engineering Statistics
• Statistics and Metrology
• Process Monitoring
• Reliability and Warranty Data Analysis
Statistical Methods for Physical Sciences
• Directional and Orientational Data Analysis

Research Projects
• Precision Agriculture
• EBSD and Crystal Orientations
• Service Life Prediction from Warranty Data
• Spectral-Temporal Event Modeling

Methodology
Stochastic, robust, bilevel, discrete optimization
Applications
TEAM (Transportation, Energy, Agriculture,
and Manufacturing) systems

Recent Projects
• (Transportation) Assessing and enhancing
transportation network resiliency
• (Energy) Strengthening electric power networks through transmission planning
• (Agriculture) Advanced analytics of genomic data for improving plant and animal breeding
• (Manufacturing) Real-time data driven visual decision support system for the factory floor