Faculty

Sila Çetinkaya, Ph.D.

  • Department Chair and Professor, OREM 
  • Cecil H. Green Professor of Engineering

  • Primary Research Areas are Supply Chain, Production and Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Optimization under Uncertainty and Healthcare Delivery and Operations Management. 

sila@lyle.smu.edu

Miju Ahn, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor, OREM 
  • Primary Research Areas are Mathematical optimization and Statistical learning.

mijua@smu.edu

Richard Barr, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor, OREM 
  • Primary Research Areas are Computational Data Analytics and Data Envelopment Analysis and Optimization for Quantum and High-Performance Computers.

barr@lyle.smu.edu

Digvijay Boob, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor, OREM 
  • Primary Research Areas are Design and Analysis of Algorithms and Machine Learning Theory.

dboob@smu.edu

Diana Easton, Ph.D.

  • Associate Chair and Clinical Professor, OREM
  • Primary Research Areas are Systems Engineering & Risk Management and Engineering Education and Curriculum.

deaston@mail.smu.edu

John Evers, Eng.D.

  • Senior Lecturer, OREM
  • Primary Research Areas are Systems Engineering and Project Technical Management.

jevers@smu.edu

Harsha Gangammanavar, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor, OREM
  • Primary Research Areas are Stochastic programming: models and stochastic optimization algorithms and Large-scale computational optimization.

harsha@smu.edu

Eojin Han, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor, OREM
  • Primary Research Areas are Robust and distributionally robust optimization and Intersection of optimization and analytics with applications in healthcare, supply chains, and service systems.

eojinh@smu.edu

Duncan MacFarlane, Ph.D.

  • Professor (by courtesy), OREM
  • Bobby B. Lyle Centennial Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship

dmacfarlane@lyle.smu.edu

Eli Olinick, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor, OREM
  • Primary Research Areas are Combinatorial Optimization and Mathematical Programming.

olinick@lyle.smu.edu

Ohad Perry, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor, OREM 
  • Primary Research Areas are Stochastic systems and applied probability with applications to service, healthcare and inventory systems and Performance analysis, control and stability of stochastic systems.

operry@smu.edu

Halit Üster, Ph.D.

  • Professor, OREM
  • Fellow, Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity

  • Primary Research Areas are Network optimization and Applied and computational optimization with applications in transportation/logistics, emergency response, bioenergy supply networks, closed loop supply chains, and telecommunications.

uster@smu.edu

Aurelie Thiele, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor
  • Primary Research Areas are Advanced Analytics and Decision Making under High Uncertainty.

athiele@smu.edu