Graduate Students
Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh

Current Ph.D. Students

Ayse Parlak, Fall 2011-present

Erhun Ozkan, Fall 2010-present

John A. Flory, Summer 2009-present

Guvenc Degirmenci, Fall 2008-present

Completed Students

Cordeiro, James (Ph.D., Operations Research). Unreliable Retrial Queues in a Random Environment. September 2007. Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research. (Jim is now Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Air Force Institute of Technology.)

Sherman, Nathan P. (Ph.D., Operations Research). Analysis and Control of Unreliable, Single-Server Retrial Queues with Infinite-Capacity Orbit and Normal Queue. June 2006. Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Cox, Steven M. (Ph.D., Operations Research), Hybrid Stochastic Models for Remaining Lifetime Prognosis, August 2004.  Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Crawford, Brian (M.S., Operations Research), Approximate Analysis of an Unreliable M/M/2 Retrial Queue. March 2007. Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Kallemyn, Benjamin (M.S., Operations Research), Prioritizing Satellite Payload Selection via Optimization. March 2007. Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense.

Boother, Timothy B. (M.S., Operations Research), Optimal Periodic Inspection of a Stochastically Degrading System. March 2006.

Flory, John A. (M.S., Operations Research), Optimizing Mean Mission Duration for Multiple-Payload Satellites. March 2006. Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense. (John is pursuing a Ph.D. in IE/OR at the University of Pittsburgh.)

Cook, Timothy (M.S. Operations Research), Optimal Maintenance for Stochastically Degrading Satellite Constellations, March 2005. Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense.

Gulyas, Cole (M.S. Operations Research), Stochastic Capability Models for Satellite Constellations, March 2005. Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense.

Offutt, Edwin (M.S. Operations Research), Selection and Application of Distorted Risk Measures, March 2005.

Plourde, Jennifer (M.S. Operations Research), Optimal Sampling of a Chemical Hazard Area, March 2005. Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory. (Jennifer is enrolled in medical school at the University of New Mexico.)

Chapin, Patrick (M.S., Operations Research), Age Replacement and Service Rate Control of Stochastically Degrading Queues, March 2004. (Patrick completed a Ph.D. in Statistics at Iowa State University and is now Assistant Professor of Statistics at AFIT.)

Finkelstein, Daniel (M.S., Applied Mathematics), Analytical Results for Single-Unit Systems Subject to Markovian Wear and Shocks, March 2004.  (Winner - Most Exceptional M.S. Thesis in Operational Sciences, Graduate School of Engineering and Management. Dan completed a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia and is Assistant Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy.)

Solo, Christopher (M.S., Operations Research), Phase-Type Approximations for Wear Processes in a Semi-Markov Environment, March 2004. (Chris completed a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at Penn State University and is Assistant Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy.)

Cho, J.I. (M.S., Systems Engineering), Shortest Path Problems in a Stochastic and Dynamic Environment, March 2003.

Hendrixon, Jennifer (M.S., Operations Research), Analysis of Scheduling Policies for a M/G/1 Queue with Rework, March 2003.

Sherman, Nathan P. (M.S., Operations Research), A Stochastic Model for Joint Reception, Staging, Onward Movement, and Integration (JRSOI), March 2003.  (Winner - Most Exceptional M.S. Thesis in Operational Sciences, Graduate School of Engineering and Management. Nate completed a Ph.D. in Operations Research at AFIT.)

Sipe, Jeff (M.S., Applied Mathematics), Transient Analysis and Applications of Markov Reward Processes, March 2003. (Jeff is ABD in the Statistics Ph.D. program at Duke University.)

Sumter, Bradley (M.S., Operations Research), Optimal Replacement Policies for Satellite Constellations, March 2003.

Yager, Nicholas (M.S., Operations Research), Models for Sortie Generation with Autonomic Logistics Capabilities, March 2003.

Committee Involvement

Koppenhaver, Robert (Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Pittsburgh). Advisor: Dr. Andrew Schaefer.

Icten, Zeynep Gozde (Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Pittsburgh). Markov Decision Process Models for Improving Equity in Liver Allocation. December 2011. Advisor: Dr. Lisa Maillart.

Claypool, Erin (Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Pittsburgh). Assessing and Mitigating Risk in a Design for Supply Chain Problem. May 2011. Advisors: Drs. Bryan Norman and Kimberly Needy.

Mann, Maj Christopher (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, AFIT), Energy-Efficient Querying of Wireless Sensor Networks. September 2007. Advisor: Dr. Rusty Baldwin.

Decker, Maj Douglas (Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, AFIT), Decision Factors for Cooperative Multiple Warhead UAV Target Classification and Attack with Control Applications. March 2005. Advisor: Dr. David Jacques.

Flint, Matthew (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Cincinnati), Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Search in Dynamic Environments Using Stochastic Methods. December 2004. Advisor: Dr. Emmanuel Fernandez.

Peterson, Maj Brian (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, AFIT), Device Discovery in Frequency Hopping Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, September 2004. Advisor: Dr. Rusty Baldwin.

Clutz, Maj Tom (Ph.D., Operations Research, AFIT), A Framework for Prognostics Reasoning, March 2003. Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Bauer, Jr.

Shenoy, Rashmi (M.S., Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University), Misuse and Performance of XmR Statistical Quality Control Charts for Single Parameter Distributions of Unknown Stability. May 2008. Advisor: Dr. James Benneyan.

Woodward, Capt William (M.S., Operations Research, AFIT), Measuring the Risk of Shortfalls in Air Force Capabilities, March 2004. Advisor: Dr. Richard Deckro.

Flietstra, Capt Timothy (M.S., Operations Research, AFIT), An Integrated Architecture and Feature Selection Algorithm for Radial Basis Neural Networks, March 2002. (Winner - Most Exceptional M.S. Thesis in Operational Sciences, Graduate School of Engineering and Management.) Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Bauer, Jr.