Kash Barker Honored as Fellow by the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers

Kash Barker, a professor at the University of Oklahoma's School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was honored as a Fellow, Class of 2023, by the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers at the National Conference held May 20-23 in New Orleans. 

The IISE Fellow award recognizes outstanding leaders in the profession who have made significant, nationally recognized contributions to the field of industrial and systems engineering. 

Barker was unable to attend the conference due to fulfillment of his duties as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Fellow. He was selected for the Fulbright Finland Foundation's Seeking Solutions for Global Challenges program and is completing his five month assignment at Aalto University in Finland.

Barker earned his bachelor and master's degrees in industrial engineering from OU and his doctorate in systems engineering from the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the areas of risk and reliability analysis, systems engineering and analytics. 

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OU Capstone Team Participates in IISE Conference

OU ISE capstone students, and recent B.S. graduates, Matthew Brooks, Avery Dickinson, and Megan Khoury, were selected to represent the School of ISE at the 2023 IISE Annual Conference and Expo in New Orleans, LA in May. Their poster was among the top 13 capstone groups presenting at the conference. 

Their project combined lean methodologies, project management, and ISE principles to conduct a post-SAP implementation analysis for Belcan Consulting. Their analysis concluded that, upon implementation of the team’s recommendations, Belcan can expect to save $113,000 per implementation. 

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ISE Faculty Members Awarded ICAST/DISC Seed Grant

Kash Barker, Ph.D. and Andrés González, Ph.D., faculty members in the OU School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, along with collaborator Chie Noyori-Corbett, Ph.D. in the Zarrow School of Social Work, were awarded a $25,513 seed grant from the OU Institute for Community and Society Transformation (ICAST) and the Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC). One of seven such funded projects, their one-year project is entitled “Temporal Networks of Environmental Refugee Resettlement.” This project will develop a novel temporal network optimization model that reflects the optimal flow of refugees from origin to host locations, and expand such a baseline model with parameters and constraints reflective of the social science-driven characteristics of equitable decision-making, location integration and dynamics, and different decision-making perspectives to equip local communities to prepare for a larger global scale human migration due to climate change. The announcement from ICAST can be found here: 

https://ou.edu/icast/news-events/2023/seven-multidisciplinary-projects-receive-seed-funding-grants. 

Two ISE Doctoral Students Given Dissertation Awards

Two ISE doctoral students were among 10 students from the OU Gallogly College of Engineering selected to receive this semester’s Dissertation Excellence Award, a $5,000 award created to encourage doctoral students to graduate with excellence.

Manjurul Ahsan defended his dissertation entitled “Data Balancing Approaches in Quality, Defect, and Pattern Analysis” in April of 2023. Alireza Rangrazjeddi will defend his dissertation entitled “Game Theoretic Algorithms for Decentralized Decision-Making” in July of 2023.

More about the GCoE Dissertation Excellence Award can be found here: https://ouccoe100.blogspot.com/2023/05/spring-2023-ou-engineering-presents.html

ISE Student Honored as Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant

The University of Oklahoma Graduate Student Senate has awarded Himadri Sen Gupta, a doctoral student in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, with the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant award. Originally from Bangladesh, Himadri earned a master's degree in industrial and systems engineering and a graduate certificate in data science and analytics and in fall 2021. His research, directed by Dr. Andrés González, applies optimization models for improved community resilience decision-making.

A Q&A with Himadri can be found here: https://ouccoe100.blogspot.com/2023/05/gcoe-ise-student-honored-as-outstanding.html