Theses Directed
Theses Directed
1990-93 | 1994-96 | 1997-99 | 2000-02 | 2003-05 | 2006-08 | 2009-11 | 2012-14 | 2015-Present
1990-93
GWO-MING JAN: “A NEW VARIANT OF THE PRIMAL AFFINE SCALING ALGORITHM FOR LINEAR PROGRAMS”
PhD dissertation (April 1990), NCSU Operations Research Program, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
MATTHEW J. BEATTIE: “A LINEAR PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO THE FIBER OPTIC CABLE CONSTRUCTION PROBLEM”
Master of Science thesis (April 1990), NCSU Operations Research Program, AT&T Business Research Center.
RUEY-LIN SHEU: “INSIGHTS INTO THE INTERIOR-POINT METHODS”
Master of Science thesis (November 1990), NCSU Operations Research Program, PhD Program at North Carolina State University.
TIANMIN ZHANG: “A USER FRIENDLY LINEAR PROGRAMMING SYSTEM FOR FURNITURE MANUFACTURING PROCESS”
Master of Science thesis (November 1990), NCSU Operations Research Program, PhD Program at Columbia University.
PAUL HSING LUH: “MULTI-SERVER TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK SCHEDULING”
(Best Student’s Thesis Award of the TIMS Southeastern Region)
PhD (May 1992), NCSU Operations Research Program, National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
RUEY-LIN SHEU: “GENERALIZED PATH FOLLOWING ALGORITHMS FOR LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS”
PhD (August 1992), NCSU Operations Research Program, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
PATRICIA SUN: “HUNTER DOUGLAS LINE BALANCING AND OPTIMIZATION”
Master of Operations Research (August 1993), NCSU Operations Research Program, Taipei Bank, Taiwan, R.O.C.
FREDERIC ROBIN: “A HEURISTIC ALGORITHM FOR THE BALE ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM”
Master of Science thesis (December 1993), NCSU Operations Research Program, U.S. Peace Corp.
1994-96
YEN-HUNG CHEN: “A GENERALIZED SIMULATION MODEL OF WEAVING MILL OPERATIONS”
Master of Science thesis (August 1994), NCSU Operations Research Program, PhD Program at North Carolina State University.
SHANKAR MISHRA: “A MAXIMUM ENTROPY OPTIMIZATION APPROACH TO TANDEM QUEUES WITH GENERAL BLOCKING”
PhD (December 1994), NCSU Operations Research Program, , Sabre Decision Technologies.
MARK E. KRAUS: “A GENERALIZED PATH-FOLLOWING APPROACH FOR LINEAR SEMI-INFINITE PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS”
PhD (December 1994), NCSU Operations Research Program, U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology
CHENG-FENG HU: “COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS ON THE DUAL FEASIBLE REGION PERTURBATION METHOD FOR LINEAR PROGRAMMING”
Master of Science thesis (August, 1995), NCSU Operations Research Program, PhD Program at North Carolina State University.
AFI DAVIS: “FUZZY OPTIMIZATION FOR ABB SUBSTATION LAYOUT”
Master of Operations Research (August, 1995), NCSU Operations Research Program, PhD Program at North Carolina State University.
MADAN NATU: “POINT-TO-POINT CONNECTION AND LOADING PROBLEMS”
PhD (August, 1995), NCSU Operations Research Program, Chesapeake Management Company.
SICHONG GUAN: “STOCHASTIC LINEAR PROGRAMMING VIA AFFINE SCALING AND KALMAN FILTERING”
PhD (August, 1995), NCSU Operations Research Program, Fruit of the Loom.
JOHN CURTIS BADGETT: “A METHOD FOR SIMULATING QUEUEING SYSTEMS WITH FUZZY PARAMETERS”
Master of Science thesis (December, 1996), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, U.S. Navy – Naval Warfare Center.
1997-99
PEITSANG WU: “DECISION SURFACE MODELING FOR TEXTILE MANUFACTURING AND MANAGEMENT”
PhD (May, 1997), NCSU Operations Research Program, I-Shou University, Taiwan. (NSF Thesis Award, Taiwan)
YEN-HUNG CHEN: “NEURAL NETWORK TECHNOLOGY FOR SOLVING CONVEX PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS AND ITS APPLICATIONS”
PhD (August, 1997), NCSU Operations Research Program, I2 Technologies.
CHENG-FENG HU: “SOLVING SYSTEMS OF FUZZY INEQUALITIES”
PhD (August, 1997), NCSU Operations Research Program, I-Shou University, Taiwan.
MIKE HUANG: “FUZZY CONTROL OF THE WAVE SOLDERING PROCESS”
Master of Operations Research (August, 1997), NCSU OR Program, Price Water House.
MICHAEL LEWIS: “IMPACT OF HURRICANES ON CONSTRUCTION BIDDING”
Master of Operations Research (August, 1997), NCSU OR Program, Air Force Civil Engineering Support Agency.
CHUKWUNENYE UKWU: “DYNAMICS OF PATH-FOLLOWING TRAJECTORIES FOR LINEAR PROGRAMMING”
Master of Science thesis (August, 1997), NCSU IE and OR Program, Fayette State University.5
JIANJUN LU: “FUZZY ABDUCTIVE REASONING WITH APPLICATIONS”
(Best Student’s Thesis Award of the INFORMS Southeast Region)
PhD (November, 1997), NCSU Operations Research Program, Nortel.
AFI L. DAVIS: “FUZZY CONTROL SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS TO COMMUNICATION NETWORK DESIGN”
PhD (November, 1997), NCSU Operations Research Program, National Security Agency.
FOREST B. STRINGER: “ROBUST CONFIDENCE INTERVAL ESTIMATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK DECISION SURFACES”
Master of Science thesis (August, 1998), NCSU OR Program, American Management Systems.
NANCHIEH CHIU: “SEQUENCING PARALLEL MACHINING PROCESS BY SOFT-COMPUTING TECHNIQUES”
PhD (November, 1998), NCSU Operations Research Program, Polaris Securities, Taiwan.
JIRANUT LOETAMONPHONG: “SOLVING MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS WITH FUZZY RELATIONAL EQUATION CONSTRAINTS”
PhD (March, 1999), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, I2 Technologies.
ULICH SCHUWER: “FUZZY SETS FOR MODELING INVESTMENT DECISIONS”
Fulbright Scholarship Award
Master of Science thesis (May, 1999), NCSU Operations Research Programp, Aachen University, Germany.
TA-WEI HUNG: “A NEW APPROACH TO FUZZY SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION”
PhD (May, 1999), NCSU Operations Research Program, Shih-Chien University, Taiwan.
DJUANA LEA:
Master of Operations Research (December, 1999), NCSU Operations Research Program, PhD Program at NC State University.
2000-02
CONSTANCE LIGHTNER: “FUZZY CONTROL BASED BUFFER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ATM NETWORKS”
PhD (May, 2000), NCSU Operations Research Program, Fayetteville State University, NC.
ANDRES MEDAGLIA: “SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION USING SOFT COMPUTING”
PhD (December, 2000), NCSU Operations Research Program, SAS Institute, Inc.
SHYH-HUEI CHEN: “SOLVING SYSTEMS OF LINEAR INEQUALITIES”
PhD (August, 2001), NCSU Operations Research Program, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology.
BURCU OZCAM: “GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR DISJOINT PATH PROBLEMS WITH PROPORTIONAL PATH COSTS”
Master of Science thesis (August, 2001), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NC State University.
XIAOHUI LIU:
Master of Operations Research (December, 2001), NCSU Operations Research Program, PhD Program at Northwestern University.
S. ILKER BIRBIL: “STOCHASTIC GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES”
PhD (May, 2002), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, Erasmus University, Netherlands.
SAOWANEE LERTWORASIRIKUL: “FUZZY DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSISS”
PhD (May, 2002), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.
CARIN LIGHTENER:
Master of Operations Research (May, 2002), NCSU Operations Research Program, PhD Program at NC State University.
NEGAR AREFI:
Master of Industrial Engineering (August, 2002), NCSU Industrial Engineering, PhD Program at University of Toronto.
YI LIAO: “NEURAL NETWORKS FOR PATTERN CLASSIFICATION AND UNIVERSAL APPROXIMATION”
PhD (August, 2002), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, SAS Institute, Inc.
HAO CHENG: “THEORY AND ALGORITHMS FOR CUBIC L1 SPLINES”
PhD (December, 2002), NCSU Operations Research Program, SAS Institute, Inc.
SHUNMIN WANG: “INTERVAL COMPUTATIONS FOR FUZZY RELATIONAL EQUATIONS AND COOPERATIVE GAME THEORY”
PhD (December, 2002), NCSU Operations Research Program, Gift2all.com.
2003-05
YUE DAI: “GAME THEORETIC APPROACH TO SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT”
PhD dissertation (May, 2003), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
PEI-LUN YUAN: “MULTI-VENDOR SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION”
Master of Science (August 2003), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, Texas Instruments, Taiwan.
HILMI AYDIN:
Master of Industrial Engineering (May 2004), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, SAS Institute, Inc.
WEI ZHANG:
Master of Operations Research (May 2004), NCSU Operations Research Program, PhD Program at NC State University.
DJUANNA LEA: “SOFT-COMPUTING FOR WAVELENGTH-BASED ROUTING IN TELECOMMUNICATION “
PhD (December 2004), NCSU Operations Research Program, Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Department of Air Force, USA.
YONG WANG: “THEORY AND ALGORITHMS OF BIVARIATE CUBIC L1 SPLINES”
PhD (May 2005), NCSU Operations Research Program, SAS Institute, Inc.
AYSEGUL PEKER:
Master of Industrial Engineering (May 2005), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
XIAOLI LING: “POOLED VERSUS RESERVED INVENTORY POLICIES IN A TWO-ECHELON SUPPLY CHAIN”
PhD (August 2005), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, Sabre Decision Technologies.
2006-08
BURCU OZCAM: “SOLVING SEMI-INFINITE VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES”
PhD (May 2006), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.
XIAN (SEAN) ZHOU: “JOINT OPTIMIZATION IN SUPPLY CHAIN”
PhD (May 2006), NCSU Operations Research Program, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
LAN LI:
Master of Industrial Engineering (December 2006), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
KUN HUANG: MASTER OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (DECEMBER 2006), NCSU INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM, PHD PROGRAM AT NCSU.
PINGKE LI:
Master of Industrial Engineering (May 2007), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
WEI (WINNIE) ZHANG: “BIVARIATE CUBIC L1 SPLINES WITH APPLICATIONS”
PhD (August 2007), NCSU Operations Research Program, Washington Mutual.
ZHONGLIANG JIANG: “APPLICATION OF AN ENTROPY-ASSISTED OPTIMIZATION MODEL IN PREDICTION OF AGONIST AND ANTAGONIST MUSCLE FORCES”
PhD (December 2007), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, Iowa State University.
58. CARIN A. LIGHTNER: “A TABU SEARCH APPROACH TO MULTIPLE DNA SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT”
PhD (August 2008), NCSU Operations Research Program, NC AT&T.
YUMIN LIN: “TABU SEARCH AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR PHYLOGENY INFERENCE”
PhD (December 2008), NCSU Operations Research Program, SAS Institute, Inc.
2009-11
QINGWEI JIN:
Master of Industrial Engineering (May 2009), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
61. JEREMY D. KRAMER: “EFFICIENCY ON SOLVING MULTI-COMMODITY NETWORK FLOW PROBLEMS”
Master of Science (August, 2009), NCSU Operations Research Program, US Army Aberdeen Proving Ground.
PINGKE LI: “RESOLUTION AND OPTIMIZATION OF FUZZY RELATIONAL EQUATIONS”
PhD (December 2009), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
YE TIAN:
Master of Industrial Engineering (May 2010), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
YUAN TIAN:
Master of Industrial Engineering (May 2010), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
LAN LI: “A TWO PERSON INVESTMENT GAME”
PhD (August 2010), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, SAS Institute.
PU WANG: “PACK OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM”
PhD (December 2010), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, SAS Institute.
ZHIBIN DENG:
Master of Industrial Engineering (May 2011), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
CHIA-CHUN HSU:
Master of Industrial Engineering (May 2011), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
KUN HUANG: “MAXIMUM FLOW PROBLEM IN ASSEMBLY MNUFACTURING NETWORKS”
PhD (May 2011), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, Macy’s Company.
LU YU: “EM METHOD FOR LINEARLY AND QUADRATICALLY CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS”
PhD (December 2011), NCSU Operations Research Program, American Credit Acceptance.
AYSEGUL PEKER: “SOLVING THE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL 0-1 KNAPSACK PROBLEM USING DEPTH-K CANONICAL CUTS”
PhD (December 2011), SAS Institute.
QINGWEI JIN: “QUADRATICALLY CONSTRAINED QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS WITH EXTENSIONS”
PhD (December 2011), Zhejiang University, College of Management, Hangzhou, China.
JONAS P. WEI:
Master of Industrial Engineering (December 2011), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
CHIH LIU:
Master of Industrial Engineering (December 2011), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, Caterpillar Inc.
ZITENG WANG:
Master of Industrial Engineering (December 2011), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
2012-14
YE TIAN: “CONIC REFORMULATION OF SOME QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS WITH APPLICATIONS”
PhD (December 2012), Southwest University of Finance and Economics, College of Management, Chengdu, China.
CHIA-CHUN HSU: “GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR MAXIMUM EDGE-DISJOINT PATHS PROBLEM AND ITS EXTENSION TO ROUTING AND WAVELENGTH ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM”
PhD (May 2013), National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
ZHIBIN DENG: “CONIC REFORMULATION AND APPROXIMATION TO SOME SUBCLASSES OF NONCOVEX QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS WITH APPLICATIONS”
PhD (December 2013), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, College of Management, Beijing, China.
TIANTIAN NIE:
Master of Industrial Engineering (December 2013), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
CHIA-FANG WU:
Master of Industrial Engineering (December 2013), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
YI-LING LIU:
Master of Industrial Engineering (December 2013), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
CHING-TING HU:
Master of Industrial Engineering (December 2013), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.
8SHA LUO:
Master of Industrial Engineering (May 2014), NCSU Industrial Engineering Program, PhD Program at NCSU.