Operations Faculty

Faculty Advisor Sunder Kekre sk0@andrew.cmu.edu

 

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Our Faculty

Egon Balas
University Professor of Industrial Administration and Applied Mathematics
The Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research
Dipl. Licentiae, Bolyai University, 1949;
Dr.Sc.Ec., University of Brussels, 1967;
Dr. U. (Math.), University of Paris, 1968

Teaching and Research Interests:
Mathematical programming, in particular integer programming, discrete and combinatorial optimization, graphs, networks, scheduling theory. Fast solution techniques for vertex packing and maximum clique problems, traveling salesman and related problems, set covering and partitioning, knapsack problems, general 0-1 programming problems; machine sequencing, scheduling of industrial processes, of delivery systems, of communication satellites, of crew assignments; facility location, portfolio optimization, capital budgeting.  

 

Ilker Baybars
Senior Deputy Dean of GSIA and Professor of Operations Management and Manufacturing
B.S., Middle East Technical University, 1970;
M.S., Carnegie Mellon University, 1972, Ph.D., 1979

Teaching and Research Interests:
Production / Operations Management, Operations Research.
Current research includes resource utilization in automated / robotic manufacturing systems (scheduling and production planning, bottleneck scheduling / line balancing), design of data / voice transmission networks (facility planning), routing, heuristic algorithms. 

 

Gerald P. Cornuejols
Professor of Operations Research and Ford Distinguished Research Chair
B.S., ENPC (Paris), 1974;
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1978

Teaching and Research Interests:
Operations research, logistics, integer programming. Contributions were made in location and distribution, integer programming algorithms, graph theory, packing and covering problems.  

 

Lisa K. Fleischer
Assistant Professor of Operations Research
A.B., Harvard College, 1989;
M.A., Cornell University, 1995; Ph.D., 1997

Teaching and Research Interests:
Discrete optimization, approximation algorithms, network routing and design, linear and integer programming.

 

John N. Hooker, Jr.
Professor of Operations Research
A.B., Princeton University,1971; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1974;
M.S., University of Tennessee, 1980, Ph.D., 1984

Teaching and Research Interests:
Operations research and mathematical programming, international business ethics, cross-cultural issues.

Itir Z. Karaesmen
Assistant Professor of Production and Operations Management
B.S., Middle East Technical University,1991; M.S., 1994, 
Ph.D. ColumbiaUniversity, 2001.

Teaching and Research Interests:
Logistics and supply chain management,service operations management, revenuemanagement, capacity management inservice and production systems,stochastic modeling.

Sunder Kekre
Professor of Operations Management and Manufacturing
Expertise: Manufacturing and Operations Systems
B. Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, 1972;
PGDMB, Xavier University, 1977;
M.S., University of Rochester, 1977; P.h.D., 1984

Teaching and Research Interests:
Manufacturing and operations systems. Current research includes strategic costing of product designs, costs of quality, system burden of quality and flexibility in vehicle assembly with parallel processing and impact analysis of Electronic Data Interchange.  

 

François Margot
Associate Professor of Operations Research
Ph.D., Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale des Lausanne, Switzerland, 1994

Teaching and Research Interests:
Linear and integer programming, branch-and-cut, polyhedral combinatorics, enumeration problems.

 

Javier F. Pena
Assistant Professor of Operations Research
B.S., Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), 1991; M.S., 1993;
M.S., Cornell University, 1998; Ph.D., 1998

Teaching and Research Interests:
Mathematical and computational aspects of optimization algorithms, especially interior-point methods for convex optimization. Current research on condition numbers for linear programming, subject that lies in the intersection between optimization and numerical analysis. 

 

R. Ravi
Associate Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science
B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1989;
Ph.D., Brown University, 1993

Teaching and Research Interests:
Combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms, computational molecular biology.

Alan Andrew Scheller-Wolf
Associate Professor of Manufacturing and Operations Management
B.A., Stanford University, 1989; B.S., 1989;
M.S., Columbia University, 1994;M.Phil, 1996;

Teaching and Research Interests:
International operations, capacitated inventory models, stochastic modeling, quantity contracts, supply chain management, queueing theory, long-range dependent processes.

 

Sridhar R. Tayur 
Associate Professor of Operations Management and Manufacturing
B.Tech, llT, Madras,1986;
Ph.D., Cornell University,1990

Teaching and Research Interests:
Modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems, supply chain management, kanban systems, chance constrained programming, simulation, queuing and quality control.

 

Michael A. Trick
Associate Professor of Operations Research
B. Math., University of Waterloo, 1982;
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987

Teaching and Research Interests:
Combinatorial optimization, computer implementation of optimization algorithms, applications in the social sciences.