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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
I won 2012 IOE Richard Wilson Prize for the Best Paper (See More Details)
I won the 2011 University of Michigan College of Engineering Outstanding Ph.D. Research Award.
I co-chaired the INFORMS 2011 Pierskalla Award for the Best Paper in Healthcare (from INFORMS Healthcare Applications Society) (See the application process and committee members)
I was a finalist for INFORMS 2011 Doing Good with Good OR Award
I presented at MSOM 2011 Healthcare Operations Management SIG Workshop (among 6 papers accepted for the workshop)
I won the INFORMS 2010 Pierskalla Award for the Best Paper in Healthcare (from INFORMS Healthcare Applications Section) (See details on INFORMS website)
I won the POMS 2011 College of Healthcare (CHOM) Best Student Paper Award (second place)
I won the 2010 Katta Murty Prize for the Best Research Paper on Optimization
I was a finalist for POMS 2009 College of Supply Chain Best Student Paper Award (among 4 finalists)
I won the Bonder Fellowship Award in Applied Operations Research
Ph.D. (Apr. 2012), Industrial and Operations Engineering,
M.S. (2009), Mathematics, University of Michigan.
M.S. (2005), Industrial
Engineering and
Operations Research, Sharif
B.S. (2003), Industrial Engineering,
Teaching Positions (Primary Instructor with Full Course Responsibility)
University of Michigan:
Fall 2010: Instructor [with Full Course Responsibility] for "IOE 440 (Operations Analysis and Management)" (80 Undergrad and Grad students):
Fall 2009: Instructor [with Full Course Responsibility] for "IOE 440 (Operations Analysis and Management)", (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."
INFORMS 2010 Pierskalla Award for the Best Paper in Healthcare (from INFORMS Healthcare Applications Section) (See More Details).
2012 IOE Richard Wilson Prize for the Best Paper (See More Details)
INFORMS 2011 Doing Good with Good OR Award (finalist).
University of Michigan College of Engineering 2011 Outstanding Ph.D. Research Award (See More Details).
POMS 2011 College of Healthcare Best Student Paper (second place) (See More Details)
MSOM 2011 Healthcare Operations Management SIG Workshop (among 6 papers accepted)
2010 Katta Murty Prize for the Best Research Paper on Optimization (See More Details).
POMS 2009 College of Supply Chain Best Student Paper (among 4 finalists).
Bonder Fellowship Award in Applied Operations Research in Healthcare (2007) (See More Details).
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 (Published, Under Review, or In Progress)
"Patient Streaming as a Mechanism for Improving Responsiveness in Emergency Departments", Operations Research (To Appear), 2012 (with Wallace Hopp , Mark Van Oyen, Jeff Desmond (M.D.) and Steve Kronick (M.D.)) (Download Paper + Appendices) (See a brief description)
2010 INFORMS Pierskalla Best Paper Award form INFORMS Healthcare Applications Section.
POMS 2011 College of Healthcare Best Student Paper Award (second place)
MSOM 2011 Healthcare Operations Management SIG Workshop (among 6 papers accepted)
"Complexity-Based Triage: A Tool for Improving Patient Safety and Operational Efficiency", under review, 2012 (with Wallace Hopp , Mark Van Oyen, Jeff Desmond (M.D.) and Steve Kronick (M.D.) (Download Paper)
INFORMS 2011 Doing Good with Good OR Award (finalist)
Univ. of Michigan College of Engineering 2011 Outstanding Ph.D. Research Award
SSRN's Top Ten download list (Health Economics)
"The ``W" Network and the Dynamic Control of Unreliable Flexible Servers", IIE Transactions, 2011, 43(12), 893-907 (with Mark Van Oyen and Bora Kolfal), (Download Paper + Appendices)
Katta Murty Prize for Best Research Paper on Optimization (See more details).
"The Value of Flexible Backup Suppliers and Disruption Risk Information: Newsvendor Analyses with Recourse, IIE Transactions (forthcoming) (with Mark Van Oyen) (Download Paper + Appendices)
POMS 2009 College of Supply Chain Best Student Paper Award (among 4 finalists).
This paper (an earlier version) was listed on the SSRN's Top Ten download list "SCM: Analytical" and "MRN Production & Operations Management".
"Impact of Operational Decisions on the Optimal Design of Salesforce Incentives", under review , 2012 (with Xiuli Chao) (Download Paper + Appendices)
"Compensating for Dynamic Supply Disruptions with Backup Flexibility", under review, 2012 (with Mark Van Oyen).
Wilson Prize for the Best Paper on Manufacturing (See More Details)
"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 Paper)
Cited over 50 times
"Integrative Cell Formation and Layout Design in Cellular Manufacturing Systems", Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2009, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp 97-115 (with M.R. Akbari Jokar), (Download Paper).
"Multi-criteria Group Decision Making Using A Modified Fuzzy TOPSIS Procedure", IEEE Proc. 2005: Computational Intelligence for Modeling, Control and Automation (with S.R.Hejazi) (Download Paper)
Cited over 25 times
This paper presents a new TOPSIS procedure (using Fuzzy Theory) for multi-criteria and group decision making problems (e.g. the problem of hiring a new faculty).
"Optimal Design of Emergency Care Supervisions", Under preparation for Operations Research (with Wallace Hopp , Mark Van Oyen, Jeff Desmond (M.D.) and Steve Kronick (M.D.).
"Optimal Control of Production and Refurbishment Activities: A Markov Decision Process Model", Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (2nd round) (with Mark Van Oyen and Eungab Kim). (Download Abstract)
"Joint Production and Disposal Activities in a Hybrid Manufacturing-Remanufacturing System", under review at European Journal of Operational Research (with Mark Van Oyen and Eungab Kim).
"A Hybrid Manufacturing/Remanufacturing System with Random Remanufacturing Yield and Market-Driven Product Acquisition" IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (2nd round) (with Li, X. and Li., Y)
"Investigating the Effectiveness of a New Patient Streaming Design for Emergency Departments", work in progress (with Wallace Hopp , Mark Van Oyen, Jeff Desmond (M.D.) and Steve Kronick (M.D.)
"Flexibility of Reliable Suppliers and Monitoring of Unreliable Suppliers: How Much Should a Manufacturer Invest?", Proc. of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM), Refereed Extended Abstract, 2008 (with Mark Van Oyen).
"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).
"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).
Other Publications (Not in English)
"Heuristic Algorithms for Terminal Assignment
Problem", Behbood Industrial Engineering Journal, No.9&10, 57-61,
2002..
"Applications of Neural Networks in Prediction",
Proceedings of
First Iranian National Conference on Logistics and Supply Chain, 2005, (with M.Setak and M.Jalilpour).
"Applications of Fuzzy Theory in Inventory and
Production Control", Proceedings of
First Iranian National Conference on Logistics and Supply Chain, 2005, (with M.Setak).
"Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls and
Heterogeneous Vehicles", Ph.D.
Thesis Chapter, (co-authored with Ph.D. candidate M. Setak)
"Assuring Performance in
E-commerce Systems",
Behbood Industrial Engineering Journal, No.11&12, pp. 122-127, 2002.
"Applications of WLANs:
Wireless Local Area Networks", Behbood Industrial Engineering
Journal, No.7&8, pp.51-54, 2001.
"An Introduction to StarOffice
5.2", Behbood Industrial Engineering Journal, No.
5&6, pp.61-66, 2001, (in Farsi).
"Hacking Techniques",
Arpanet , No.3, pp 43-52, 2002 .
"Windows Systems: a Review", Behbood Industrial Engineering Journal, No.9&10, 62-65, 2002.
"A New Metaheuristic: Bee Colony Optimization and its applications for Traveling Salesman Problem".
INFORMS 2011 (Charlotte, NC)- Doing Good with Good OR Award Finalists "Improving Patient Flow in Emergency Departments."
INFORMS 2011(Charlotte, NC): "Complexity-Based Triage: A Tool for Improving Patient Safety and Operational Efficiency" (session organizer and co-chair).
MSOM 2011 Healthcare Operations Management SIG Workshop (Ann Arbor, MI) "Improving Patient Flow in Emergency Departments" (Among six papers accepted).
POMS 2011 (Reno, Nevada) - Best Student Paper Award (2nd place) "Patient Streaming as a Mechanism for Improving Responsiveness in Emergency Departments".
INFORMS Healthcare 2011 (
expected, Montreal, Canada) "Emergency Department Patient Flow Redesign" (Invited Talk).INFORMS 2010 (Austin, Texas) -Pierskalla Award Finalist & Winner "Patient Streaming as a Mechanism for Improving Responsiveness in Emergency Departments" (Invited Talk).
INFORMS 2010 (Austin, Texas) "Overcoming Crowding in Emergency Departments: A New Streaming Mechanism" (Session Co-organizer and Co-chair).
INFORMS 2010 (Austin, Texas) "Dynamic Control of Unreliable Flexible Servers: The ``W" Network and Beyond" (Invited Talk).
INFORMS 2010 (Austin, Texas) "Disruption Risk Information and Flexible Backup Suppliers" (Invited Talk).
Mayo Clinic Conf. on Systems Eng. & Operations Research in Health Care 2010"A New Patient Flow Design for Emergency Departments".
University of Michigan Hospital (2010): "Understanding Streaming VS. Pooling in Emergency Departments: Queueing Theory and Simulation" (Invited Talk).
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" (Among Four 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?"
NSF 2008 (NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee),
IHD 2008 (Third Annual Conf. on Improving Healthcare Delivery, Cincinnati, OH),
INFORMS 2007 (Seattle, Washington): "The Value of Flexible Suppliers in Supply Chains".
International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC) 2005.
International Management Conference (IMC) 2005.
International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC) 2004.
International Management Conference (IMC) 2004.
Book review for Wiley Publication.
Paper review for Operations Research.
Paper review for Operations Research Letters
Paper review for Naval Research Logistics
Paper review for IIE Transactions
Paper review for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Paper review for Production and Operations Management
Health Care Operations Research: Stochastic modeling and optimization of patient flow in hospitals
Stochastic Control: Control and design of queuing networks, control of production/inventory systems, stochastic scheduling (main methodological tools: Markov Decision Processes, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes, Queuing Theory, Sample-Path Analysis, Multi-Armed Bandit Indices, Approximate and Robust Dynamic Programming)
Operations and Supply Chain Management/Optimization: Operational flexibility, mechanisms to mitigate supply chain disruption risks
Contract Theory: Dynamic Principal-Agent models in Operations Management
Metaheuristic Optimization [Not Currently Active] : Bee Colony, Ant Colony, Simulated Annealing, and Genetic Algorithms.
Professor Wallace Hopp (Ross School of Business, University of Michigan).
Professor Mark Van Oyen (Dept. of Industrial. and Operations Eng., University of Michigan).
Visitors (6,300 visitor from Oct 2006 to Apr. 2011)