Research Areas
Energy
- IEM faculty in this area focus on:
- Power systems and markets
- Power grid security
- Energy policy analysis and renewable energy management
Transportation
- IEM faculty in this area focus on:
- Freight generation and transportation modeling
- Crude transportation optimization
- Rail and truck logistics
- Hazardous material movement modeling
Healthcare
- IEM faculty in this area focus on:
- Design of mass vaccination clinics
- Distribution of strategic national stockpile
- Real-time dispatch of emergency vehicles
Data Mining & Analytics
- IEM faculty in this area devise techniques for:
- Prediction of spatial and temporal processes in energy and environmental systems
- Graph-based data mining of complex social and biological networks
Optimization Under Uncertainty
- IEM faculty in this area devise theory and algorithms for:
- Data-driven risk-averse stochastic optimization
- Stochastic integer programming
- Stochastic approximation algorithms
- Simulation optimization
- Optimization of conditional-value-at-risk
Discrete & Continuous Optimization
- IEM faculty in this area devise theory and algorithms for:
- Convex optimization
- Variational inequalities
- Polyhedral combinatorics
- Integer programming