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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
INFORMS
Seattle, 2007
"A "Divide-and-Conquer" Approach to High- and Low- Level Resource Planning" with Ada Barlatt (speaker).
"Constructing OnCall Schedules for Medical Residents" with Joseph Norman.
"Metrics and Measures of Robustness in Airline Schedules" with Shervin Ahmadbeygi (speaker) and Peter Belobaba.
"Solving Single-round, Fully Enumerated Combinatorial Truckload Procurement Auctions to Optimality" with Richard Chen (speaker),
Shervin AhmadBeygi, Damian Beil, and Amitabh Sinha.
"Stochastic Combinatorial Truckload Procurement Auctions" with Shervin Ahmadbeygi (speaker), Damian Beil, Richard Chen and Amitabh Sinha.
"Labor Allocation in Automotive Planning: Leveraging a Flexible Workforce" with Ada Barlatt (speaker).
"Robust Schedule Planning and Recovery: Current Research and Future Challenges" (AAS Panel).
Evanston, IL 2007
"Measuring and Minimizing Delay Propagation in Passenger Airline Plans" with Shervin Ahmadbeygi (speaker) and Peter Belobaba.
"An Implicit Bidding Mechanism for Combinatorial Auctions" with Richard Chen (speaker), Shervin Ahmadbeygi, Amitabh Sinha, and Damian Beil.
"A Parallel Algorithm for Solving Resource Allocation and Scheduling Problems" with Ada Barlatt, Mary Jo Luppino, and Tian Jia Zhou.
Puerto Rico, 2007
"Using Composite Variable Modeling to Achieve Realism and Tractability in Production Planning," with Ada Barlatt (speaker), Yakov Fradkin, and Oleg Gusikhin.
Pittsburgh, 2006
"A New Modeling Approach for Scheduling Stamping Operations," with Ada Barlatt (speaker), Yakov Fradkin, and Oleg Gusikhin.
"Assessing Delay Propagation in Airline Plans," with Shervin AhmadBeygi (speaker), Yihan Guan, and Peter Belobaba.
"Developing Fair and Feasible Schedules for Residents On-Call," with Sarah Root (speaker).
"Simplified Bidding and Solution Mechanisms for VCG Combinatorial Auctions," with Damian Beil (speaker), and Amitabh Sinha.
"Using Composite Variable Modeling to Solve Integrated Freight Transportation Planning Problems," with Sarah Root (speaker).
San Francisco, 2005
"Solving Large Crew Pairing Problems for Integrated and Robust Planning," with Shervin AhmadBeygi.
"Models and Algorithms for Scheduling in Automotive Stamping Plants," with Ada Barlatt, Christy Griffen, Yakov Fradkin, Oleg Gusikhin, and Giuseppe Rossi.
"Integrated Planning for Small Package Carriers," with Sarah Root and Alex Wang.
"Hands-On Teaching of the Optimization Process".
Denver, 2005
"Equipment Matching and Balancing for an Express Package Network," with Sarah Root and Holly Shoals.
"An Optimization Approach to Solving the Airline Crew Pairing Problem," with Shervin AhmadBeygi.
Atlanta, 2003
"Dominance and Indifference in Airline Crew Scheduling," with KoMing Liu and Shervin AhmadBeygi.
"A Network Design Problem in Freight Transportation with Non-Linear, Cross-Arc Costs," with Melinda Davey, Lisa Schkade, Amanda Siegel, and Caris Wong.
Miami, 2001
"Network Design for Service Parts Logistics," with Cynthia Barnhart, Wilson Tandiono, Keith Howells, and Juwono Bong.
San Antonio, 2000
"Improving Crew Scheduling by Incorporating Key Maintenance Routing Decisions," with Cynthia Barnhart.
Salt Lake City, 2000
"A Column Generation Approach to Product Clustering and Machine Setup in Printed Circuit Board Assembly," with Michael Magazine and George Polak.
IIE
"Integrated Load Matching and Equipment Balancing for Express Package Networks," with Sarah Root (Atlanta, 2005).
"A Framework for Evaluating Production Policies to Improve Customer Responsiveness," with Yoram Koren and Selin Kurnaz (Atlanta, 2005).
"An Optimization Approach to Solving the Airline Crew Pairing Problem," with Shervin AhmadBeygi (Atlanta, 2005).
POMS
"A Sequence-Dependent Clustering Model," with Ahmet Keha and George Polak (Boston, 2006).
"Models and Algorithms for Scheduling in Automotive Stamping Plants," with Ada Barlatt (Boston, 2006).
"Incorporating Customer Responsiveness when Solving Blocking Flowshop Scheduling Problems," with Selin Kurnaz (Boston, 2006).
M&SOM
"Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing and Large-Scale Optimization Techniques," with Michael Magazine, George Polak, Sarah Root, David Stajninger, and Reid Tatoris (Los Angeles, 2003).
SLOAN FOUNDATION INDUSTRY STUDIES PROGRAM
"Schedule Optimization and Operational Realities" MIT Airline Industry Consortium Executive Education Course (Boston, MA June 2008).
"Achieving Robustness Without Increasing Cost: A New Planning Tool for Passenger Aviation," with Shervin AhmadBeygi, Marcial Lapp, and Peter Belobaba (Sloan Industry Studies Program Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA April 2008).
"Assessing Delay Propagation in Airline Plans: An Update," with Shervin AhmadBeygi, Marcial Lapp, and Peter Belobaba (MIT Global Airline Industry Program Annual Industry Advisory Board meeting Cambridge, MA October 2007).
"Robust Schedule Planning and Recovery: The Role of Operations Research" MIT Airline Industry Consortium Executive Education Course (Boston, MA June 2007).
"Incorporating Robustness in Passenger Aviation Planning Models," with Shervin Ahmadbeygi, Yihan Guan, and Peter Belobaba (Sloan Industry Studies Program Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA May 2007).
"Assessing Delay Propagation in Airline Plans," with Shervin AhmadBeygi, Yihan Guan, and Peter Belobaba (MIT Global Airline Industry Program annual Industry Advisory Board meeting Cambridge, MA October 2006).
"Integration of the Load Matching and Routing Problem with Equipment Balancing for Small Package Carriers," with Sarah Root (Cambridge, MA, May 2005).
TRISTAN
"Improving Crew Scheduling by Incorporating Key Maintenance Routing Decisions," with Cynthia Barnhart (Azores, 2001).
"The Stochastic Knapsack Problem with Random Weights: A Heuristic Approach to Robust Transportation Planning," with Cynthia Barnhart (Puerto Rico, 1998).
ISMP
"Improving Airline Crew Schedules By Expanding the Solution Space," with Cynthia Barnhart (Atlanta, 2000).
SEMINARS
" 'Optimized' Airline Plans and Operational Realities" (University of Toronto Fields Lecture, June 2008).
"Wheels, Windmills, and Weekends: A New Algorithm for Discrete Optimization Problems" (University of Pittsburgh, April 2008).
"Truckload Procurement Auctions: Demonstrating an Implicit Bidding Mechanism" with Shervin AhmadBeygi, Damian Beil, Richard Chen, and Amitabh Sinha (STIET Seminar Series, November 2007).
"Resident Scheduling and Medical Decision Making" with Joseph Norman (University of Michigan Medical School Residency Seminar Series, June 2007).
"Using Mathematical Programming to Make VCG Auctions Tractable: Truckload Procurement" with Damian Beil, Amitabh Sinha, Shervin Ahmadbeygi, and Richard Chen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, March 2007).
"Using Mathematical Programming to Make VCG Auctions Tractable" with Damian Beil, Amitabh Sinha, Shervin AhmadBeygi, and Richard Chen (University of Michigan Toyota AI Seminar Series, October 2006).
"Models and Algorithms for Scheduling in Automotive Stamping Plants" with Ada Barlatt, Christina Griffen, Yakov Fradkin, Oleg Gusikhin, and Guiseppe Rossi (Ford Motor Company, 2006).
"Modeling Complex Systems to Ensure Implementable Solutions: Imbedding Complexity in the Variable Definition" (University of Colorado, 2005; Northwestern University, 2005).
"Composite Variable Models for Large Transportation and Logistics Problems" (University of Chicago, Princeton University, Cornell University, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, 2002; University of Cincinnati, 2001).
OTHER
"Constructing Pareto-Optimal Residency Call Schedules" at BMIC Conference (Orlando, FL May 2008).
"Hybrid Approach for Solving Shift-Selection and Task-Sequencing Problems" with Ada Barlatt and Oleg Gusikhin at CP-AI-OR Conference (Paris May 2008).
"Planning, Operations, and Robustness" Panel at AGIFORS Operations Study Group (Amsterdam May 2008).
"Simplified Bidding and Solution Structures for Combinatorial Procurement Auctions" with Damian Beil, Amitabh Sinha, Shervin AhmadBeygi, and Richard Chen at NSF Grantees Meeting (Knoxville, TN January 2008).
"Delay Propagation and Airline Planning: Research Overview" at Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Germany 2007).
"Stochastic Truckload Procurement Auctions" with Shervin AhmadBeygi (speaker), Damian Beil, Richard Chen, and Amitabh Sinha at 9th Midwest Optimization Conference (Ann Arbor, 2007).
"A Hybridization of Mathematical Programming and Search Techniques for Integrated Operation and Workforce Planning" with Ada Barlatt (speaker) and Oleg Gusikhin at SMC (Montreal, 2007).
"Using Integer Programming and Dual-Based Potentials to Generate Crew Pairings" with Shervin Ahmadbeygi and Marshall Weir at AGIFORS Crew Meeting (Seattle, WA 2007).
"Measuring and Minimizing Delay Propagation in Airline Plans" with Shervin Ahmadbeygi, Yihan Guan, and Peter Belobaba at AGIFORS / Sloan Networking Event (Denver, CO 2007).
"Incorporating Reliability, Responsiveness, and Realism in Production Planning and Sequencing," with Ada Barlatt, Yoram Koren, and Selin Kurnaz at the Intelligent Maintenance Decision-Making Workshop: Needs, Practices, and Solutions (Dearborn, MI, 2006).
"Dominance and Indifference in Airline Planning Decisions," with Shervin AhmadBeygi and KoMing Liu at the NEXTOR-FAA-INFORMS Conference (Blacksburg, VA, 2003).