Esogbue, Augustine O. (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Contact Information

Augustine O. Esogbue
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0205
» Phone: (404) 894-2323
» Fax: (404) 894-2301
»augustine.esogbue@isye.gatech.edu
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Topics:

Dynamic Programming: Theory and Applications

Fuzzy Sets Theory.
Decision and control in a fuzzy environment with imprecise data. Applications.

Large Scale Systems Analysis

Operations Research in Health Care, Water Resources and Pollution, Urban Systems, Problems of Less Developed Economies

Health Systems
Patient safety issues and management, manpower planning and programming, delivery units design and optimization, surgery and anesthesia, medical decision making, analysis and computerization possibilities.

Background:

B.S. Electrical Engineering - University of California-Los Angeles
M.S. Industrial Engineering/Operations Research - Columbia University
Ph.D. Systems Engineering and Operations Research - University of Southern California

Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Advisory Editor, International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems; Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. Formerly, Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Management Sciences, University of California-Berkeley. Adjunct Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Atlanta University, and Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine; Assistant Professor of OR, Case Western Reserve University, Research Associate of Engineering and Medicine, University of Southern California, and Development Engineer, Water Resources Center, University of California-Los Angeles. Consultant to various agencies and organizations. Chair, ORSA Health Applications Technical Section, 1990-1992. Former Chair, ORSA/TIMS Visiting Lecturer Program. Author, Dynamic Programming for Optimal Water Resources Systems Analysis. Co-author, Mathematical Aspects of Scheduling and Applications, Decision Criteria and Optimal Inventory Management. (with B. Liu). Panel Member, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.

Contact Information Jeffrey L. Arthur Department of Statistics 44 Kidder Hall Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-4606 » Phone: (541) 737-2429 » Fax: (541) 737-3489 » E-mail: arthur@science.oregonstate.edu » Website Topics: What is Operations Research? The objective of this talk is to familiarize the audience with the field of OR. This is accomplished by reviewing the history of the field, sampling the types of problems one can encounter, and discussing the types of tools one needs to be a practicing OR analyst. (Elementary) Optimization Models for Reserve Site Selection As the human population continues to grow into previously undisturbed regions, the need intensifies for identifying parcels of land to be set aside as nature reserves. This talk describes several of the models developed for this problem. (Intermediate) Land Management with Biological and Economic Objectives There is an increasing call for public land managers to simultaneously address the multiple and possibly competing objectives of wildlife protection and resource production. This talk describes recent work on developing a three-dimensional production possibilities frontier for timber production and two focal species on a 1.7 million hectare forested region over a 100 year planning horizon. (Intermediate) Background: B.S. Mathematics - Purdue University M.S. Operations Research/Statistics - Purdue University Ph.D. Operations Research/Industrial Engineering - Purdue University Currently, Professor of Operations Research, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University. Consultant to various private organizations and government agencies. Publications in OR journals on computational aspects and applications of mathematical programming. Member of INFORMS Meetings Committee. Formerly, Secretary/Treasurer of ORSA Computer Science Technical Section; President of TIMS College on Engineering Management; Program Chair of INFORMS National Meeting, Seattle (1998); Contributed Papers Chair of INFORMS International Hawaii (2001). Chair, Organizing Committee, 17th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), Honolulu, HI (2005).