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Education:
Ph.D. Candidate,
Industrial and Operations Engineering,
M.S. Student,
Applied Mathematics (Optimization and Stochastics),
University of Michigan,
M.S.E, Industrial
Engineering and
Operations Research, Sharif
B.S.E, Industrial Engineering,
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Honors and Awards:
Bonder Fellowship Award in Applied Operations Research (2007).
Named & Deans Fellowship Award (2006), University of Michigan.
University Honor of Exceptionally Outstanding Graduate Student: Dep. of I.E., Sharif University of Technology.
Top Ranked Graduate Student: For highest graduate GPA among all peers, Sharif University of Technology.
Second Top Ranked Undergraduate Student: For second highest cumulative GPA among all peers, Isfahan University of Technology.
Top 10 Country Students: For highest total score among about 3500 participants in Iranian Nation-Wide Graduate Entrance Exam.
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Publications and Working Papers:
"Flowshop-Scheduling
Problems with Makespan Criterion: a Review", International
Journal of Production Research, 2005, Vol. 43, No. 14, pp. 2895-2929.
(with S.R.Hejazi) (Download PDF File).
"On the Value of
Flexible Suppliers and Disruption Risk Level Information in Supply Chains", Under Revision (with M. P. Van Oyen).
"Dynamic Control of Heterogeneous Flexible Servers in Parallel Queueing Systems under the Risk of Disruptions", Working Paper (with M. P. Van Oyen and Bora Kolfal).
"The Value of Operational Flexibility and Risk Level Information in Supply Chains under Disruption", Proceedings of 2008 NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, (with M. P. Van Oyen).
"Flexibility of Reliable Suppliers and Monitoring of Unreliable Suppliers: How Much Should a Manufacturer Invest?" Proceedings of 2008 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) conference, College Park, Maryland, (with M. P. Van Oyen).
"Integrative Cell Formation and Layout Design in Cellular Manufacturing Systems", Under Review (with M.R. Akbari Jokar).
"Design for Critical Supply Chains with Disruption Risks: An MDP-Based Model to Increase Reliability", Third Annual Conf. on Improving Healthcare Delivery, Cincinnati, OH.
"Multi-criteria Group Decision Making Using A Modified
Fuzzy TOPSIS Procedure",
Proceedings
of IEEE conference: International Conference on Computational Intelligence: for
Modeling, Control and Automation, (CIMCA 2005), Vienna,
Austria, (with S.R.Hejazi)
(Download PDF File)
"A Service Level Based Approach to Supply Chain
Network Design", proceedings of International Conference on
Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM 2005), Bali, Indonesia.
(with M.R. Akbari Jokar).
"Location-Allocation Decisions For Supply Chain
Networks Management: A Customer Satisfaction Focus", Proceedings of 3rd
International Management Conference, 2005,
(with M.R.Akbari Jokar).
"An Integrated Approach to Supply Chain Network Design
with Service Level Consideration",
Proceedings of First National Conference on Logistics and Supply
Chain, 2005, (with M.R. Akbari Jokar).
"Integrative Cell Formation and Layout Design in Cellular
Manufacturing Systems", 1st
Edition, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference of Industrial Engineering
(IIEC 2004), (with M.R.Akbari Jokar).
"An Integrated Approach to Supply Chain Network Design
with Service Level Consideration",
2nd Edition, Proceedings of 4th
International Conference of Industrial Engineering (IIEC 2005), (with M.R.Akbari Jokar).
"A New Hybrid Metaheuristic
Approach to Cellular Manufacturing Systems Design", IEEE
conference of Computational Intelligence: Methods and Applications (CIMA 2005), Istanbul,
Turkey, (with M.R.Akbari Jokar),
"Heuristic Algorithms for Terminal Assignment
Problem", Behbood Industrial
Engineering Journal, No.9&10, 57-61, 2002, (in Persian language).
"Applications of Neural Networks in Prediction",
Proceedings of
First Iranian National Conference on Logistics and Supply Chain, 2005, (with M.Setak and M.Jalilpour), (in
Persian language).
"Applications of Fuzzy Theory in Inventory and
Production Control", Proceedings of
First Iranian National Conference on Logistics and Supply Chain, 2005, (with M.Setak), (in
Persian language).
"Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls and
Heterogeneous Vehicles", Ph.D.
Thesis Partner and Assistant, (Ph.D. Thesis of M. Setak)
"Assuring Performance in e-commerce Systems",
Behbood Industrial Engineering Journal, No.11&12, pp. 122-127, 2002,
(in Persian language).
"Applications of WLANs:
Wireless Local Area Networks" , Behbood Industrial Engineering Journal,
No.7&8, pp.51-54, 2001, (in Persian language).
"An Introduction to StarOffice
5.2", Behbood Industrial Engineering Journal, No.
5&6, pp.61-66, 2001, (in Persian language).
"Hacking Techniques",
Arpanet , No.3,
pp. 2002 , (in Persian language).
"Windows Systems: a Review", Behbood Industrial Engineering Journal, No.9&10, 62-65, 2002, (in Persian language).
"A New Metaheuristic: Bee Colony Optimization and its applications for Traveling Salesman Problem", (Unpublished research in Persian language).
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Talks and Presentations:
INFORMS 2008 (Washington DC): "Stochastic Networks with Breakdowns: Effective Control of Flexible Servers".
MSOM 2008 (College Park, Maryland): "Flexibility of Reliable Suppliers and Monitoring of Unreliable Suppliers: How Much Should a Manufacturer Invest?"
INFORMS 2007(Seattle, Washington): "The Value of Flexible Suppliers in Supply Chains".
Others:
NSF 2008 (Knoxville, Tennessee),
IHD 2008 (Third Annual Conf. on Improving Healthcare Delivery, Cincinnati, OH),
IIEC 2004, IIEC 2005,
IMC 2004, IMC 2005.
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Referee
and Review Experiences:
Referee and paper review for Naval Research Logistics.
Referee and paper review for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation .
Referee and paper review for Production and Operations Management .
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Technical
Areas of Interest:
Stochastic Modeling and Optimization, Queueing Theory, Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Scheduling, and Probability Theory.
Operations Management, Supply Chain Design, Modeling, Optimization and Management.
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Teaching
Experience:
"Probability Theory ", Ghazvin University, Ghazvin, Iran.
"Probability Theory and Engineering Statistics", Golpaiegan University of Technology (Supported by Sharif University of Technology), Golpaiegan, Iran.
"Facilities
Planning and Plant Layout", Ghazvin University,
Ghazvin,
Iran.
"Preliminary course for World Mathematical Olympiad", invited lecturer, high school section of Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.
"Technical English for
Industrial Engineers", Ghazvin University, Ghazvin, Iran.
"Computer
Lab" , Sharif University of
Technology, Tehran, Iran
"Facility
Location and Plant Layout" (as a TA for 5 semesters), Sharif
University of Technology, Tehran,
Iran.
"Internet and
Virtual Concepts", invited lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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