Curriculum Vita
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Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2002
Industrial and Operations EngineeringDissertation: “Anticipatory Route Selection Problems”
Advisor: Chelsea C. White IIIM.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1999
Industrial and Operations EngineeringB.A., Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, 1996
Double Major in Mathematics and Economics
cum laude in Economics, Phi Beta KappaHONORS:
Rackham Fellow, University of Michigan, 1997 – 2002
Graduate Assistant in Areas of National Needs Fellow, 1999 - 2002
Trustee Scholarship, Grinnell College, 1993 – 1997
Hewlett Overseas Internship Grant, Grinnell College, 1995
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Research Interests: logistics, vehicle routing, stochastic dynamic programming, heuristic searchAssistant Professor
Dept. of Management Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2002 – presentCOURSES TAUGHT:
University of Iowa
06K:100 Operations Management
06N:216 Data and Decisions
06N:229 Operations Management
06K:292 Supply Chain Management
06K:294 Rapid Continuous Improvement
University of Michigan
IOE 201 Engineering Economic Decision-making, 2001 – 2002.
STUDENT SUPERVISION
Ph.D. Candidacy CommitteesLifang Wu, Department of Management Sciences, 2003.
Yuan Gan. “Clustering Algorithms for Data and Knowledge Exploration.” Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2002.
Ph.D. Dissertation Committee
Li Zhang. “The p-Hub Center Allocation Problem and the q-Upgrading Arc Problem.” Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences, July 2004.
Lifang Wu. "Essays on Product Variety Managment." Department of Management Sciences, June 2004.
Yuan Gan. “Clustering Algorithms for Data and Knowledge Exploration.” Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, August 2003.
SERVICE
Department of Management Sciences
Member, Graduate Student Committee, 2003 – present.
Co-coordinator of the departmental Ph.D. seminar series, 2002 – 2003.
College of Business
Co-founder and co-coordinator of the MidAmerican Energy Speaker Series in Transportation, 2003 – present.
Member, MBA Core Committee, 2002 – 2004.
Professional
Editor, INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Newsletter
INFORMS Subdivision Council Representative from the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society, 2007
Associate Editor, Infor: Canadian Journal of Operational Research and Information Processing, June 2004 - May 2007
Secretary/Treasurer, INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society, 2006
INFORMS Transportation/Logistics Section Cluster co-Chairman, Denver, 2004
Sponsored Session Chairman, INFORMS, Atlanta, 2003
New Technology in the Learning Environment Workshop, University of Iowa, summer 2003
Invited Session Chairman, INFORMS, San Jose, 2002
Referee for Operations Research, Transportation Science, MSOM, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, European Journal of Operational Research, and Operations Research Letters
Member of INFORMS
Affiliate Member, Sloan Industry Studies Program
Board Memberships
Trustee, Grinnell College, 2005 - present
GRANTS
CIM in Higher Education Alliance, $9000, co-PI
University of Iowa Council on Teaching Instructional Improvement Award, $3500, co-PI
Old Gold Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2004, $6000
UI Foundation Midwest Resources, University of Iowa, $1800, co-PI
Old Gold Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2003, $6000
New Technology in the Learning Environment Grant, University of Iowa, 2003, $2000
MidAmerican Energy Research Award, University of Iowa, 2003, $900, co-PI
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Operations Research Intern
United Parcel Service, Baltimore, MD
May 2001 – July 2001, May 2000 – August 2000Consultant
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL
August 1999 – November 1999Consultant
USF Holland, Holland, MI
May 1998 – August 1998Logistics Engineering Intern
Schneider Logistics, Inc., Green Bay, WI
January 1997 – July 1997Published or To Appear in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem with Deadlines.” Transportation Science, to appear. (with Ann M. Campbell)
“Waiting Strategies for Anticipating Service Requests at Known Customer Locations.” Transportation Science, to appear.
"A Compressed Annealing Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows." 2007 . INFORMS Journal on Computing, 19(1), 80 - 90. (with Jeffrey Ohlmann)
“Dynamic and Stochastic Shortest Path Problem with Anticipation.” European Journal of Operational Research, 2007:176(2), 836-854. (with Chelsea C. White III)
"Anticipatory Route Selection." 2004. Transportation Science 38(4), 473 - 487. (with Chelsea C. White III)
Submitted for publication
“Solution Approaches to the Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem with Deadlines.” February 2007. (with Ann Campbell)
“Advances and Challenges in A Priori Routing.” To The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and Challenges. Edited by Bruce Golden, Raghu Raghavan, and Edward Wasil. Springer, August 2007.
Working Papers
“Minimax Violation Tree Problems.” January 2007. (with Hui Chen, Ann Campbell, and Arie Tamir)
“Minisum Violation Tree Problems.” January 2007. (with Hui Chen and Ann Campbell)
“Route Design for Lean Manufacturing Systems.” January 2007. (with Jeffrey Ohlmann and Michael J. Fry)
“Vehicle Routing Problem with Multiple Trips.” Fall 2006. (with Justin Goodson and Jeffrey Ohlmann)
“The Orienteering Problem with Stochastic Travel Times.” Summer 2006. (with Ann M. Campbell and Michel Gendreau)
“Analysis of Compressed Annealing with Multiple Penalty Multipliers.” Winter 2006. (with Jeffrey Ohlmann)
Conference Proceedings
"Vehicle Routing when Future Service Requests are Anticipated." Proceedings of the Intelligent Vehicle Symposium 2001, IEEE, 2001. (with Chelsea C. White III)
Other
“Anticipatory Route Selection Problems.” Ph.D. Thesis. University of Michigan, 2002.
"Developing Trace Routes to Better Accommodate Routing Air Packages On Trace." Technical Report. United Parcel Service, 2001.
"The Vehicle Routing Problem with A Priori Routes and Premium Stops." Technical Report. United Parcel Service, 2000.
PRESENTATIONS
“Waiting Strategies for Anticipating Requests from Known Customer Locations.” Invited Presentation. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, January 2007.
“Waiting Strategies for Anticipating Requests from Known Customer Locations.” Invited Presentation. Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 2006.
“Solution Approaches to the Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem with Deadlines.” Sponsored Session. INFORMS, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2006.
“ Lean Academy: Using Rockwell Collins as a Real-time Case Study.” Sponsored Session. INFORMS, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2006.
“Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem with Deadlines.” Invited Presentation. Dipartimento di Matematica “Ennio De Giorgio,” University of Lecce, Lecce, Italy, October 2006.
“Waiting Strategies for Anticipating Requests from Known Customer Locations.” Invited Presentation. Dipartimento di Matematica “Ennio De Giorgio,” University of Lecce, Lecce, Italy, October 2006.
“Waiting Strategies for Anticipating Requests from Known Customer Locations.” Odysseus: Third International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics, Altea, Spain, May 2006.
“How Can a Blacksmith Help UPS and FedEx Save Money?” Grinnell College, February 2006.
“Real-time Heuristics for Anticipating Customer Service Requests from Known Customer Locations.” Sponsored Presentation. INFORMS, San Francisco, CA, November 2005.
“Waiting Strategies for Anticipating Service Requests at Known Customer Locations.” Invited Presentation. 17 th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Honolulu, HI, July 2005.
“The Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem with Deadlines.” United Parcel Service, Timonium, Maryland, September 2005. (with Ann Campbell)
“New Directions in Time-Constrained Routing.” Invited Presentation. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa, November 11, 2004. (with Ann Campbell and Jeffrey Ohlmann)
“Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem with Deadlines.” Invited Presentation. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, November 9, 2004. (with Ann Campbell)
“New Directions in Time-Constrained Routing.” Invited Presentation. Department of Engineering Management, University of Missouri-Rolla, November 5, 2004. (with Ann Campbell and Jeffrey Ohlmann)
“Waiting Strategies for Anticipating Service Requests at Known Customer Locations.” Sponsored Presentation. INFORMS, Denver, CO, October 2004.
“A Compressed Annealing Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows.” Sponsored Presentation. CORS/INFORMS, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2004. (with Jeffrey Ohlmann)
“A Compressed Annealing Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows.” United Parcel Service, Timonium, Maryland, January 2004.
“A Compressed Annealing Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows.” Sponsored Presentation. INFORMS, Atlanta, GA, October 2003. (with Jeffrey Ohlmann)
“Dynamic and Stochastic Shortest Path Problem with Anticipation.” Invited Presentation. INFORMS, San Jose, CA, November 2002. (with Chelsea C. White III)
“Anticipatory Route Selection.” Invited Presentation. NSF Workshop on Real-time Logistics, Long Beach, CA, April 2002. (with Chelsea C. White III)
“Anticipatory Route Selection.” Schneider Logistics, Inc., December 2001.
"Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows." Invited Presentation. INFORMS, Miami, FL, November 2001.
"A Comparison of Anticipatory and Reactive Routing Policies." Invited Presentation. INFORMS, Miami, FL, November 2001. (with Chelsea C. White III)
"Developing Trace Routes to Better Accommodate Routing Air Packages On Trace." United Parcel Service, July 2001.
"The Vehicle Routing Problem with A Priori Routes and Time Windows." United Parcel Service, August 2000.
"Anticipatory Tour Selection." Invited Presentation. INFORMS, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2000. (with Chelsea C. White III)