The OU School of ISE proudly recognizes four doctoral graduates from the 2022-2023 academic year. Our graduate scholars are vital to our academic and scholarly mission, and these four will continue to be tremendous ambassadors for OU ISE.
Leili Soltanisehat, Ph.D. defended her dissertation, which dealt with the multi-regional, multi-industry impacts of state-level pandemic decisions, in the summer of 2022. Her research has been published in the International Journal of Production Research, Risk Analysis, Socio-economic Planning Sciences, and Computers and Industrial Engineering, among others. While a doctoral student, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Analytics at the University of Tulsa, and she will be joining the Department of Decision and Information Sciences at UMass-Dartmouth as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2023.
Reza Alizadeh Kordabad, Ph.D. received OU’s 2023 Best Dissertation in Science and Engineering for his work on managing computational complexity through partitioning, approximation, and coordination. Reza has been active in publishing his work in journals such as Research in Engineering Design, Advanced Engineering Informatics, and Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design and Management. Reza is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Analytics at the University of Tulsa.
Md Manjurul Ahsan, Ph.D. defended his dissertation, which dealt with data balancing approaches in defect, failure, and pattern analysis applied to healthcare imaging and additive manufacturing, in the spring of 2023. His research has been published Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Healthcare, and IEEE Access, as well as in several edited books. Manjurul is currently employed as a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Radiology at the Northwestern University School of Medicine.
Saeed Jamalzadeh, Ph.D. defended his dissertation in the spring of 2023. His work, which deals with the weaponization of disinformation and its potential to impact infrastructure systems, has been published in Scientific Reports, with several more contributions under review. While a doctoral student, Saeed served as a co-op with Bayer Corporation in Minneapolis, MN, and he is now employed at Bayer full time as a data scientist.
