Focus areas:

Power systems and markets

Power grid security

Energy policy analysis and renewable energy management

Focus areas:

Freight generation and transportation modeling

Crude transportation optimization

Rail and truck logistics

Hazardous material movement modeling

Focus areas:

Design of mass vaccination clinics

Distribution of strategic national stockpile

Real-time dispatch of emergency vehicles 

IEM faculty in this area devise techniques for:

Prediction of spatial and temporal processes in energy and environmental systems

Graph-based data mining of complex social and biological networks

IEM faculty in this area devise theory and algorithms for:

Data-driven risk-averse stochastic optimization

Stochastic integer programming

Stochastic approximation algorithms

Simulation optimization

Optimization of conditional-value-at-risk

IEM faculty in this area devise theory and algorithms for:

Convex optimization

Variational inequalities

Polyhedral combinatorics

Integer programming