UC Berkeley
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Students on the academic job market - 2005-2006
My
research interests include Operations Management, Game Theory, Auction
Design, and Supply Chain Management.
Specifically, I study optimization and decision-making with limited information
from both an engineering and economic perspective. In my future research, I will
focus on developing the solutions and methods for the industrial applications,
especially, information collection, evaluation, and decision-making problems in
operations management. Besides research, I enjoy teaching. I was the instructor
for the undergraduate-level required course “EIN4365 Facilities Planning and
Materials Handling” with teaching evaluation (4.00/5.00). I am ready to teach
all levels of courses in operations management, inventory control, operations
research, game theory, engineering economy, statistics, and stochastic
process.
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Research
Statement
Muhong Zhang's research interests are in robust optimization, integer
programming, network optimization and applications in supply chain management.
She received a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Beijing University of
Chemical Technology, China in 1999 and an M.S degree in Operations Research from
the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Applied Mathematics in 2002. She
is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. Muhong
is a Berkeley Fellowship recipient, which is a five-year scholarship for
graduate students. She was a the finalist in the INFORMS George Nicholson
Student Paper Competition in 2005.
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Ron Alterovitz
Ron Alterovitz's research interests are in computational medical robotics, including interdisciplinary research in motion planning, optimization, biomechanical simulation, and image registration for medical applications. He studied Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and received his B.S. degree in 2001. He completed his M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research in 2003 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently a Ph.D. Candidate. Ron was selected for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship as well as the NDSEG Fellowship. He has presented his work at 10 national and international conferences of engineering and medical associations such as IEEE, AAPM, and ABS, including 6 refereed paper publications. His work in combining tissue deformation models with motion planning for needle insertion procedures was recognized as a finalist for best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
Jian Yao’s research interests are in general in market engineering, an intersection of Operations Research, Economics and Finance. His current research topics include stochastic complementarity problems, game theory and computational economics. In particular, his dissertation develops game-theoretical models and non-linear optimization solutions for market designs and policy analysis in electricity supply chains. His career goal is to obtain an academic position where he will be able to pursue his research and teaching interests related to Industrial Engineering, Operations Research and market mechanisms. Jian Yao holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of North Carolina, and M.S. and Ph.D. (expected 12/05) degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from University of California.
http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~jyao CV
Thaisiri Watewai
Thaisiri Watewai is a final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley. His current research interests include stochastic control and optimization, financial engineering, robust optimization, ambiguity modeling, and statistical learning. One part of his recent research has been devoted to the development and analysis of event risk financial models. The other has focused ondecision making problems that account for model ambiguity and learning with applications to finance and revenue management. He received a B.Eng. in industrial engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from Chulalongkorn University, and a LL.B. from Ramkhamhaeng University, Thailand in 2001. He also received a M.S. in operations research from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002, and a M.A. in statistics from the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley in 2005. He is a recipient of the Anandamahidol Foundation Fellowship, the most prestigious fellowship in Thailand for graduate studies, and won two best teaching awards from the University of California, Berkeley.
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