Industrial Engineering & Management
Research Areas
ENERGY
Focus areas:
Power systems and markets
Power grid security
Energy policy analysis and renewable energy management
TRANSPORTATION
Focus areas:
Freight generation and transportation modeling
Crude transportation optimization
Rail and truck logistics
Hazardous material movement modeling
HEALTHCARE
Focus areas:
Design of mass vaccination clinics
Distribution of strategic national stockpile
Real-time dispatch of emergency vehicles
DATA MINING & ANALYTICS
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
OPTIMIZATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY
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
DISCRETE & CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION
IEM faculty in this area devise theory and algorithms for:
Convex optimization
Variational inequalities
Polyhedral combinatorics
Integer programming
