Educating Tomorrow's Technology Leaders for Career Success

IEN, Industrial Engineering,

Dr. Asfour, Chair

• University of Miami Industrial Assessment Center (MIIAC)Director: Dr. Shihab Asfour

• Anthony Burns Center for Advanced Supply Chain Management (CASCM)Director: Dr. Murat Erkoc

• Biomechanics Research Group (BRG)Director: Dr. Shihab Asfour

• Manufacturing Research Institute (MRI)Director: Dr. Francesco Travascio

Educating Tomorrow's Technology Leaders for Career Success

IEN Industrial Engineering

Dr. Asfour, Chair

• University of Miami Simulation and Optimization Research Lab (SimLab)Director: Dr. Nurcin Celik

1: DYNAMIC-DATA-DRIVEN ADAPTIVE SIMULATIONS (DDDAS)Particle Filtering Approach

2: DDDAS-BASED MONITORING AND CONTROL OF AIR FORCE BASE MICROGRIDSDDDAS Approach

2: ELECTRIC UTILITY RESOURCE PLANNINGContinuous-Discrete Modular Modeling Approach

3: SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN FLORIDAHybrid Agent-based Modeling Approach

4: ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH AND SAFETY RISKS OF SOLID WASTE WORKERS IN FLORIDABayesian Analysis

3: EMERGENCY EVACUATION/WORKFORCE ASSIGNMENT Social Network Analysis Approach

Lab MembersXiaoran Shi

Aristotelis ThanosMehrad Bastani

Haluk DamgaciogluTalal Alyamani

Duygu YasarGregory Collins

David Reiff

Dr. Nurcin Celik

Educating Tomorrow's Technology Leaders for Career Success

Individuals, their Choices, and the Society

Dr. Nazrul I Shaikh

Marketing EngineeringYou can you measures someone’s preferences from the choices that they make. Then• How can you systematically

influence/cater to his/her choices?• How do you develop a marketing

strategy for your product or services?• How can you leverage the social

media for prediction and forecasting

Example Projects:• Quantifying how the public

sentiments are evolving using Twitter and Google Trends data

• Developing an optimal digital marketing strategy for a Social Cause

Social NetworksOne can measure how your friends and family, or strangers influence your opinions and choices. Then• How do opinions, ideas, and

choices spread in a networked society?

• How can you leverage what you know about individual and group behavior for developing a strategy?

Example Projects:• Sampling and the Multi-Armed

Bandit• Seeding-As a marketer, who

should you give free samples to?

Educating Tomorrow's Technology Leaders for Career Success

IEN Industrial Engineering

Dr. Asfour, Chair

Dr. Seokgi Lee, Assistant Professor in IE

Methodologies : Distributed system and control Logical analysis of data Dynamic probabilistic systems

Applications: Predictive analytics for delivering prevention

services in education, psychology, and medicine areas

Home healthcare service Energy-aware operations in manufacturing and

logistics systems

Educating Tomorrow's Technology Leaders for Career Success

IEN Industrial Engineering

Dr. Asfour, Chair

Dr. Ramin Moghaddass, Assistant Professor in IE

Methodologies: Stochastic Programming and Control Data-Driven Decision Making under Uncertainty and Dynamic

Environments Predictive Analytics and Big data Healthcare Analytics & Causal Inference

Current Research Activities: Condition Monitoring and Maintenance Decision Making in Smart

Grids Using Large-scale SCADA Data Data-Driven Cancer Diagnosis and Prediction Time-dependent Treatment Effects Analysis Using Longitudinal

Medical Data