Ph.D. Students

The joy of teaching.

  • Chung-Lun Li, graduated May 1990. Currently holding a faculty position at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.


  • Julien Bramel, graduated May 1992. Currently serves as VP, Risk Management CDCIXIS Financial Guaranty. Recipient of the 1992 ORSA Nicholson Prize and the Transportation Science Section Prize for the best Ph.D. Thesis in 1992.


  • Qun Deng, graduated November 1994. Currently working for GAT in the area of Object-Oriented Design, Optimization and Fixed Income Modeling.


  • Lap Mui Ann Chan, graduated August 1995. Currently holding a faculty position at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). Received an honorable mention in the 1994 ORSA Nicholson Student Paper Competition and the 1995 INFORMS Nicholson Student Paper Competition.


  • Ana Muriel, graduated July 1997. Currently holding a faculty position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.


  • Phil Kaminsky, graduated August 1997. Received an honorable mention in the 1996 MSOM Student Paper Competition. Currently holding a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research.


  • Jennifer Ryan, graduated June 1997. Currently holding a faculty position at Purdue University, the IE Department.


  • Ann Bixby, graduated September 1998. Co-advisor with Collette Coullard. Currently working for Aspen Technology, Inc.


  • Ebru Bish, graduated July 1999. Currently holding a faculty position at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.


  • Max Zuo-Jun Shen, graduated August 2000. Currently holding a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research.


  • Hui Liu, graduated June 2001. Received the Dissertation-Year Henderson Fellowship for 2000-2001 awarded by the McCormick School of Engineering. Currently working for Verizon Laboratories.


  • Deniz Ceglar, graduated May 2001. Received the Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award from the Society of Logistics Engineers. Currently an associate with the management consultants Booz Allen & Hamilton


  • Julie L. Swann, graduated September 2001. Received the Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2002 given by the Council of Logistics Management. Currently on the faculty at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech.


  • Cheng-Feng Mabel Chou, graduated September 2001. Received the Dissertation-Year Graham Fellowship for 2000-2001 awarded by the McCormick School of Engineering. Currently on the faculty at National University of Singapore, Department of Decision Sciences.


  • Yao Zhao, Graduated July 2002. On the faculty at Rutgers University, School of Management.


  • Xin Chen, Graduated May 2003. Currently on the faculty at UIUC. Awarded an honorable mention in the 2002 Nicholson Student Paper Competition as well as a Second Prize in the 2002 MSOM Student Paper Competition.


  • Victor Martinez de Albeniz, Graduated in June 2004. Currently on the faculty at IESE Business School, Spain. Awarded an honorable mention in the 2003
    Nicholson Student Paper Competition.


  • Louis Laungkesorn, Graduated August 2004 (co-advisor with Seyed Iravani). Currently working for the RAND Corporation.


  • Tieming Liu, graduated August 2005. Currently on the faculty at Oklahoma State University.


  • Stephen Shum, expected graduation August 2006.


  • Pamela Pen-Erh Pei, expected graduation August 2006.


  • Pranava Goundan, (co-advisor with Andreas S. Schulz) expected graduation August 2006.


  • Hamed Mamani, expected graduation August 2007.


  • Chiwon Kim, expected graduation August 2007.


  • Miao Song, expected graduation August 2008.


Post Doctoral Fellow

The joy of research.

  • Dr. Lap Mui Ann Chan, September 1995-August 1996. Received her Ph.D. at Columbia University.


  • Dr. Frank Y. Chen, September 1996-August 1997. Received his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto.


  • Dr. Xin Chen, September 2003-August 2004. Received his Ph.D. at MIT.


  • Dr. Nir Halman, September 2005-May 2006. Received his Ph.D. at Tel-Aviv University.

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May 10, 2007 ( more)

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NASA Sponsored Research: Interplanetary Supply Chain Management

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