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Transportation Systems, Logistics, Optimization, Radio Frequency Identification
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| Education:
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Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering (1999), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;
Dissertation: Topics in Airline Crew Scheduling and Large Scale Optimization (Advisors: George Nemhauser and Ellis Johnson)
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B.S. in Applied Mathematics (1994),
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Dissertation: A Randomized Algorithm for Computing the Volume of a Convex Set (Advisor: Bojan Mohar)
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| Work
Experience:
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1999-2005: Tenure-track assistant professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Urbana, Illinois.
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2005-2006: Visiting professor, MIT, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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2006-present: Associate professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, Illinois
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| Professional
Honors, Awards, and Recognitions: |
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Preseren’s Award for the Best Undergraduate Thesis, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1994
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First Prize Transportation Science Section Dissertation Prize, INFORMS, 2000
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Anna Valicek Medal Winner, AGIFORS 2004 (by graduate student Rivi Sandhu)
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2006 Best Student Paper, The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering, Atlanta, GA (by graduate student Hector Gonzales)
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| Selected
Courses Taught: |
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Introduction to Operations Research
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Network Systems Analysis
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Topics in Asset Management
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Integer Programming
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