PhD Student Openings at Oklahoma State University

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PhD Student Openings in Industrial Engineering at
  Oklahoma State University (Optimization/Networks)
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Dr. Austin Buchanan is seeking to hire 1-2 PhD students in Industrial Engineering & Management at Oklahoma State University. Prospective students should be knowledgeable about (and enjoy!) operations research, optimization, and networks. Strong students will be funded as research assistants through Dr. Buchanan's NSF CAREER award related to networks and optimization (particularly, in redistricting). Interested students should contact Dr. Buchanan at the email below and attach a CV and transcript.

Faculty email: buchanan(at)okstate(dot)edu

Faculty bio:
Austin Buchanan is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management at Oklahoma State University. He holds a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Texas A&M University. His research focuses on solving combinatorial optimization problems in networks, particularly those having connectivity or distance constraints. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journals Networks and Optimization Letters and as a Member of Council for the INFORMS Section on Telecommunications & Network Analytics. Previously, he served as Vice Chair for Network Optimization in the INFORMS Optimization Society (IOS) and as the IOS Representative on the INFORMS Subdivisions Council. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation (including an NSF CAREER award), and his papers have appeared in the journals Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Programming Computation, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and Networks, among others.

Research areas:
operations research; integer programming; combinatorial optimization; networks; districting; algorithms.

导师个人信息

Faculty website: iem.okstate.edu/content/buchanan-austin

Research Project: (来源于nsf官网，楼主没有发URL链接的权限）
NSF Org:        CMMI
Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn

Initial Amendment Date:        January 24, 2020

Latest Amendment Date:        January 24, 2020

Award Number:        1942065

Award Instrument:        Standard Grant

Program Manager:        Georgia-Ann Klutke
CMMI Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
ENG Directorate For Engineering

Start Date:        June 1, 2020

End Date:        May 31, 2025 (Estimated)

Awarded Amount to Date:        $500,000.00

Investigator(s):        Austin Buchanan buchanan@okstate.edu (Principal Investigator)

Sponsor:        Oklahoma State University
101 WHITEHURST HALL
Stillwater, OK 74078-1011 (405)744-9995

NSF Program(s):        OE Operations Engineering,
CAREER: FACULTY EARLY CAR DEV

Program Reference Code(s):        073E, 1045, 5514

Program Element Code(s):        006Y, 1045