Education Honors and Awards Publications Other Publications Talks and Presentations
Referee and Review Experience Technical Areas of Interest Teaching Advisors Visitors
University of Michigan,
Dept. of Industrial & Operations Eng.,
1205 Beal Ave.,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2117, USA.
Office: IOE 2823.
Office Phone: 734-615-7149,
Email: "soroush" at " umich" dot "edu".
Ph.D. Candidate,
Industrial and Operations Engineering,
M.S., Mathematics,
University of Michigan.
M.S., Industrial
Engineering and
Operations Research, Sharif
B.S., Industrial Engineering,
Finalist: Best Student Paper Award : Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) (2009).
Finalist: Murty Prize in Optimization (2008).
Bonder Fellowship Award in Applied Operations Research in Healthcare (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.
Publications (and Working Papers):
"On the Value of Flexible Suppliers and Disruption Risk Information in Supply Chains", Under Revision, (with Mark Van Oyen) ,
This paper (an earlier version) was a finalist for Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) best student paper.
This paper (an earlier version) was listed on the SSRN's Top Ten download list "SCM: Analytical" and "MRN Production & Operations Management".
"Dynamic Control of Unreliable Flexible Servers: The ``W" Network and Beyond", Under Review by Operations Research , (with Mark Van Oyen and Bora Kolfal), (Download PDF File)
"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)
This paper has been cited over 40 times in four years after publication.
"Integrative Cell Formation and Layout Design in Cellular Manufacturing Systems", Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Forthcoming (with M.R. Akbari Jokar).
"On the Coordination of Production and Refurbishment Decisions in a VMI System", Under Review by Operations Research Letters (with Mark Van Oyen).
"Overcoming Crowding in Emergency Departments: A New Streaming Mechanism", Working Paper, (with Wallace Hopp and Mark Van Oyen).
"Dynamic Incentive Design and Inventory Control: Asymmetric Information and Hidden Actions", Working Paper, (with Xiuli Chao).
"Multi-criteria Group Decision Making Using A Modified Fuzzy TOPSIS Procedure", IEEE Proceedings: International Conference on Computational Intelligence: for Modeling, Control and Automation, (CIMCA 2005), Vienna, Austria (with S.R.Hejazi) (Download PDF File)
"A New Policy for The Control of Parallel Queueing Systems", Proceedings of 2009 NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (with Mark 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 Mark Van Oyen).
"Flexibility of Reliable Suppliers and Monitoring of Unreliable Suppliers: How Much Should a Manufacturer Invest?", Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM), Extended Abstract, 2008 (with Mark Van Oyen).
"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 Chapter, (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).
INFORMS 2009 (San Diego, California): " Dynamic Control of Flexible Servers under the Risk of Disruptions".
POMS 2009 (Orlando, Florida): "The Value of Flexible Suppliers and Disruption Risk Level Information in Supply Chains" (Finalist for Best Student Paper).
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 (NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee),
IHD 2008 (Third Annual Conf. on Improving Healthcare Delivery, Cincinnati, OH),
IIEC 2004, IIEC 2005,
IMC 2004, IMC 2005.
Referee and Review Experience:
I am a reviewer for the following journals:
Naval Research Logistics.
IIE Transactions.
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation .
Production and Operations Management .
Stochastic Modeling and Optimization, Control of Queues, Stochastic Scheduling: Applications in Service Centers, Supply Chains, and Health Care.
Operations and Supply Chain Management/Optimization.
Health Care Operations Management/Optimization.
Contract Theory, Mechanism Design, Theory of Incentives : with a focus on dynamic settings.
Methaheuristic Optimization : Bee Colony, Ant Colony, Simulated Annealing, and Genetic Algorithms.
Teaching (Primary Instructor with Full Course Responsibility):
University of Michigan:
Instructor [with Full Course Responsibility] for "IOE 440 (Operations Analysis and Management)", (Fall 2009 : 70 Undergrad and Grad students).
Other Universities (Three Different Universities):
Instructor [with Full Course Responsibility] for "Probability Theory."
Instructor [with Full Course Responsibility] for "Engineering Statistics."
Instructor [with Full Course Responsibility] for "Facility Planning and Plant Layout."
Instructor [with Full Course Responsibility] for "Preliminary Training for World Mathematical Olympiad."
Advisors (Alphabetical):
Professor Wallace Hopp (Ross School of Business, University of Michigan).
Professor Mark Van Oyen (Dept. of Indust. and Oper. Eng., University of Michigan).