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Dr.
Altiok was part of two panels on "Port Development in
South Jersey" organized by the South Jersey Development
Council.
The
panel discussions focused on the port expansion projects and
the impact of port expansion on South Jersey communities and
the State's economy. The panelists included Kris Kolluri,
Commissioner, NJDOT, T. Altiok, Rutgers University, Thomas
Carver, Exec. Director, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority,
NJ and John Matheussen, CEO, Delaware River Port Authority.
Dr.
Özel has been awarded a grant from the National Science
Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing
Innovation. This research award of $186,039 will
support a collaborative research project entitled "Improving
Machinability of Titanium Alloys using Physics-based Simulation
Modeling" between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2011.
Dr.
M. Baykal-Gursoy together with her collaborators
E. Boros (RUTCOR), Rick Lathrop(Center for Remote Sensing&Spatial
Analysis, N. Fefferman (DIMACS), Dina Fonseca and Randy Gaugler
(Center for Vector Biology), and Mark Robson (New Jersey Agricultural
Experiment Station) have been awarded a 2008 Academic Excellence
Fund (AEF) for the establishment of the Rutgers University
Climate and Health Research Initiative (CHRI).
The research team will focus on investigating and minimizing
the impact of extreme climatic events on human health.
Drs.
Boucher and Elsayed, along with Drs. Martin and Elnahrawy
of Computer Science Department, have been awarded the Collaborative
Computing Research grant from Rutgers' Computing Coordination
Council, "Improving Healthcare Utilization using Real-Time
Tracking". The research team will develop and
implement a system that combines real-time electronic tracking
of hospital assets using RFID tags with scheduling of the
use of these assets to improve hospital services. The target
application is a regional in-patient cancer center.
Dr.
Chaovalitwongse (PI) and his collaborators (Co-PIs: BME Professor
E. Micheli-Tzanakou, BME Professor N. Boustany, UMDNJ-RWJMS
Neurosurgery Professor R. Lehman, UMDNJ-RWJMS Neurology Professor
B. Wu) have been awarded the Collaborative Computing Research
grant from Rutgers' Computing Coordination Council. The
seed fund of $50,000 will support a collaborative research
project entitled: "Spatio-Temporal Data Mining in Brain
Disorder and Cognitive Function Study". Dr. Chaovalitwongse
will lead the team to exploit advances in optimization, signal
processing, and statistical approaches to improve the current
technology of brain diagnosis. Several medical applications
will be studied, including Epilepsy, Parkinson's Disease,
Alzheimer's Disease, and other brain disorders.
Drs.
Chaovalitwongse and Pham, together with ECE Professor M. Parashar,
CS Professor T. Nguyen and MIS Professor H. Xioang, have been
awarded a 2008 Academic Excellence Fund (AEF). The
funding of $75,000 will support Rutgers' Center of Excellence
for Cyber-Security and Information Assurance (CSIA).
Dr.
James T. Luxhoj, "Safety Risk Analysis of Unmanned Aircraft
Systems (UAS) Integration into the National Airspace System
(NAS): Phase 2," ($157,983): Principal Investigator,
Federal Aviation Administration, September 1, 2007 - August
30, 2008.
Dr.
Mohsen A. Jafari, "Protecting Intelligent Distributed
Power Grids Against Cyber Attacks," Siemens, $360,000,
November 01, 2007 - October 31, 2009, (Co-PI with M. Muller).
Dr.
Mohsen A. Jafari, "Decision Support Systems for Roadway
Safety," USDOT/Federal Highway Commission, $250,000,
November 01, 2007 - April 30, 2009.
Dr.
Mohsen A. Jafari, "Seed Money for Research in Distribution
Systems," Siemens, $40,000, December 01, 2007 - November
30, 2008.
Dr.
Mohsen A. Jafari, "Traffic Safety," USDOT/FHUA/CAIT,
$350,000, September 01, 2007 - August 30, 2008.
Dr.
Elsayed A. Elsayed, "Investigation of Aircraft Separation
Standards and Navigational Equipment on the Oceanic Airspace
Capacity and Safety," FAA, $168,000, Award No. 06-G-016,
September 5, 2007- August 28, 2008.
Dr.
Elsayed A. Elsayed, "Implementation of Continuous Sheet
Folding Technology," Titan Folding Technologies, $100,446,
September 1, 2007-Decemeber 31, 2008 (Co-PI with B. Basily).
Dr.
Elsayed A. Elsayed, "Investigation of Decision Support
Systems for Aviation Safety Evaluation," FAA, $162,000
Award No. 07-G-001, December 1, 2007-November 30,
2008.
Dr.
Özel received a research grant from United Technologies
Research Center, Investigations on Influence of Machining
Induced Strain, Stress and Temperature Fields on White-Etch
Layer Formation in IN-100 Super Alloy, Phase I & Phase
II, Principal Investigator, (5/2007-12/2007): $26,057.
Dr.
Baykal-Gursoy received a research grant from Rutgers Transportation
Coordinating Council/Federal Transit Administration. Managing
Incidents and Emergencies in Transportation, Rutgers TCC/FTA
Grant, Principal Investigator, (9/2007-8/2008): $30,000.
Dr.
Pham gave a keynote lecture on Mortality Modeling - Bioenvironmental
Issues and Perspectives at the U.S. – Korea Workshop:
Understanding Bioenvironmental Complexity, July 9 –
10, 2007, Seoul, Korea.
Dr.
Pham was selected to be a Member of IEEE Computer Society
Fellow Evaluation Committee, May – July 2007.
Dr.
Pham served as an Honorary Chair of the ISSAT International
Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, August 2-4,
2007, Seattle, WA.
Dr.
Pham served as a General Chair of the International Conference
on Modeling of Complex Systems and Environments, Ho Chi Minh
City, Vietnam, July 16-18, 2007.
Dr.
Tortorella has been selected to be a Member of The President’s
National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
Dr.
Tortorella received IEEE Communications Society Technical
Committee on Quality and Reliability 2007 Chairman's Award.
Dr. Luxhøj was promoted to Full Professor of
Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Dr.
Luxhøj is the recipient of the 2006-2007 Rutgers Engineering
Governing Council’s Excellence in Teaching Award for
the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Dr. Luxhøj received
a Phase 2 award for the research grant from the Federal Aviation
Administration. Dr.
Luxhøj received a Phase 2 award in the amount of $157,983
for the research grant “Safety Risk Analysis of Unmanned
Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration into the National Airspace
System (NAS)” from the Federal Aviation Administration.
This brings the total award to $301,028 for the period July
1, 2006 – August 30, 2008.
Dr.
Chaovalitwongse was awarded a United States patent (US 7,263,467
B2), titled “Multi-Dimensional Multi-Parameter Time
Series Processing for Seizure Warning and Prediction".
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Art
will use the award to support his research project, titled
"Novel Optimization Methods for Cooperative Data Mining
with Health-care and Biotechnology Applications". It
is a research program to advance and apply quantitative and
qualitative approaches to the study of epilepsy and brain
disorders. Art’s research program is motivated by the
fact that uncontrolled epilepsy poses a significant burden
to society due to associated healthcare cost ($12.5 billion
in the U.S. alone). His project is aimed at the development
of an automated seizure prediction system and brain abnormal
activity classifier. To achieve this goal, optimization-based
data mining approaches will be developed to quantitatively
analyze the brain activity through electroencephalogram (EEG)
data. Art proposes to develop novel DM techniques to excavate
hidden patterns/relationships from the brain’s electrical
activity, which will give a greater understanding of brain
functions (as well as other complex systems) from a system
perspective.
The
research program described in his CAREER proposal is very
crucial to decision making processes in real world problems.
Success of this research will advance the state-of-the-art
in the field of optimization in data mining, and have a greatly
significant impact on medical research. The research scope
in this proposal touches upon several emerging optimization
and data mining problems, which are driven by ever growing
computational power. The proposed research has shown a broad
impact on many research fields including computer science,
operations research, computational biology, and logistics.
The scope of this project itself will broaden opportunities
and enable the participation of all citizens – women
and men, underrepresented minorities, and especially persons
disabled by epilepsy. Success of this proposal in seizure
prediction research will relieve the anguish from this life-threatening
disease and improve the life quality of at least 2 million
Americans (14 millions worldwide), who are currently suffering
from epilepsy regardless of race, age, or gender.
The
CAREER project will undertake various efforts in curriculum
development, student mentoring (DIMACS Research Experience
for Undergraduates), industrial collaboration (ExxonMobil,
Dash Optimization, St. Peter’s University Hospital),
and outreach activities (e.g., conferences, workshops, trainings).
Art will be working with neurologists from the comprehensive
epilepsy center at St. Peter’s University Hospital.
Art
joined the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
as an Assistant Professor in January 2005. He received his
B.E. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from KMITL (Thailand)
in 1999, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial and Systems
Engineering from University of Florida in 2000 and 2003, respectively.
He has authored or co-authored more than 26 journal papers/book
chapters and 37 conference publications and holds two international
patents and two U.S. patents.
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Dr.
Özel received the Best Paper Award in the 8th CIRP International
Workshop on Modeling of Machining Operations.
The
award was presented at the 2005 CIRP International Workshop,
that was held in 10-11 May, 2005, in Chemnitz, Germany. The
paper was titled "Finite Element Method Simulation of
Machining of AISI 1045 Steel with a Round Edge Cutting Tool".
Dr.
Pham received IEEE Fellow Award
Hoang Pham, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
at Rutgers University, was recently elected a Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
the world’s largest professional technical organization
with over 360,000 members worldwide. Pham is being honored
for notable contributions to analytical techniques for modeling
the reliability of software and systems. Pham was among 268
worldwide members of IEEE elected as Fellows in 2005. Pham
is the author of over 80 journal articles, 2 books, 4 edited-books,
and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Reliability,
Quality and Safety Engineering and associate editor of the
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Pham’s
recent research interests focus on modeling the reliability
and vulnerability of complex systems in high risk environments.
Dr.
Elsayed received the 2005 Golomski Award
They received the 2005 Golomski Award for the outstanding
paper in the 2004 Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and
Maintainability Symposium, by their paper entitled
Zhao, W. and Elsayed, E. A., “An Accelerated Life Testing
Model Involving Performance Degradation."
Wanpracha
(Art) Chaovalitwongse won the William Pierskalla Best Paper
Award in Operations Research and Health Care Applications
by the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences). (http://www.informs.org/Prizes/
HealthPrize.html)
The award was presented at the 2004 INFORMS annual meeting
held in Denver, CO. The paper was titled "Seizure Warning
Algorithm Based On Optimization And Nonlinear Dynamics."
The paper was presented by Art, and authored by P.M. Pardalos,
W. Chaovalitwongse, L.D. Iasemidis, J.C. Sackellares, D.-S.
Shiau, P.R. Carney, O.A. Prokopyev, and V.A. Yatsenko. This
paper was recently published in Mathematical Programming Series
B Vol. 10, No. 2.
Susan Albin received the IIE Transactions
on Quality and Reliability Engineering 2001-2002 Best Paper
Award.
The award will be presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of
IIE in Portland, Oregon. The paper, "A Hierarchical Method
for Evaluating Products with Quantitative and Sensory Characteristics,"
is co-authored by Prof. Flavio Fogliatto, Universidade Federal
do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He was a graduate of the Rutgers
ISE doctoral program and Dr. Albin served as his thesis advisor.
Thomas
O. Boucher was the recipient of the 2002 Wellington Award
from the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
This is a lifetime achievement award given for "outstanding
contributions in the field of engineering economy".
David
W. Coit won the William A. J. Golomski Award for Best Paper
by an IIE member at the 2002 Reliability and Maintainability
Symposium (RAMS) in Seattle, WA.
The award was presented at the 2003 RAMS, Tampa, FL. The paper
was titled "Reliability Improvement of Airport Ground
Transportation Vehicles Using Neural Networks to Anticipate
System Failure." The paper was presented by Prof. Coit,
and authored by Alice Smith, David Coit and Curtis McCullers.
Dr.
Luxhøj received a $1.16 million research contract from
the NASA Langley Research Center to develop a probabilistic
decision support system to evaluate new technology and to
assess aviation safety system risk.
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