Faculty

• 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

• Assistant Professor, OREM 

• Primary research areas are mathematical optimization and statistical learning.

mijua@smu.edu

• 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

• Assistant Professor, OREM 

• Primary research areas are design and analysis of algorithms and machine learning theory.

dboob@smu.edu

• Associate Chair and Clinical Professor, OREM

• Primary research areas are systems engineering & risk management and engineering education and curriculum.

deaston@mail.smu.edu

• Senior Lecturer, OREM

• Primary research areas are systems engineering and project technical management.

jevers@smu.edu

• Associate Professor, OREM

• Primary research areas are Stochastic programming: models and stochastic optimization algorithms and large-scale computational optimization.

harsha@smu.edu

• Associate Professor, OREM

• Primary research areas are supply chain risk management and security, partially observable Markov Decision Processes and Markov Games, structural estimation and dynamic discrete choice models, mental fatigue.

ylchang@smu.edu

• Associate Professor (By Courtesy), OREM

eclarson@lyle.smu.edu

• Professor (By Courtesy), OREM

• Bobby B. Lyle Centennial Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship

dmacfarlane@lyle.smu.edu

• Associate Professor, OREM

• Primary research areas are combinatorial optimization and mathematical programming.

olinick@lyle.smu.edu

• 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

• 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

• Associate Professor

• Primary research areas are advanced analytics and decision making under high uncertainty.

athiele@smu.edu