2026
Appointment
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2026
Leadership
Appointed Program Chair for the 2027 IISE Annual Conference.
2026
Source 2026
Student
PhD student Paul Antonacci completed his doctoral degree.
2026
Award
Received the John L. Imhoff Global Excellence Award for Industrial Engineering Education from ASEE.
2026
Publication
Source Post-disaster drone-logistics research published in International Journal of Production Research.
2026
Award
Source 1st Place in the 2026 IISE DAIS Mobile/Web App Competition — Pyam Oveys, Sharan Srinivas, and James Noble.
2026
Award
Received the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award from the College of Engineering, Guindy Alumni Association.
2026
Award
Source Voted Outstanding Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering by 2026 graduating seniors.
2026
Grant
UNICOIL grant awarded for a risk-aware decision-support platform for commodity pricing under market uncertainty.
2026
Award
Source Received the Outstanding Senior Faculty Teaching Award from the University of Missouri.
2026
Publication
iFreightOps research on data-driven freight transportation management in port operations published in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
2026
Grant
Alaska DOT/FHWA grant awarded to advance cost-effective, safe, and resilient freight operations in Anchorage.
2026
Source 2025
Student
PhD student Arash Alizadeh completed his doctoral degree.
2025
Grant
Source NSF IRES grant awarded for research on optimizing collaborative human-mobile robot operations for next-generation manufacturing and service systems.
2025
Grant
Mizzou TechHub award received to advance a route-management platform for electric truck-drone last-mile logistics.
2025
Award
Voted Outstanding Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering by 2025 graduating seniors.
2025
Appointment
Appointed to the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports.
2025
Grant
UNICOIL grant awarded to advance steel-market analytics and decision-making through integration of large language models.
2025
Source 2025
Source 2025
Publication
Source Air-taxi operating-site research accepted in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
2025
Grant
Source NSF I-Corps award received for collaborative human–robot operations software translation.
2024
Award
Voted Outstanding Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering by Fall 2024 graduating seniors.
2024
Award
Source Received the Outstanding ISE Faculty Award for research, teaching, and service.
2024
Career
Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Missouri.
2024
Grant
Source NSF CyberTraining award received for an application-inspired cloud DevOps training platform.
2024
Award
Source Ray Wood received third place in both the IISE Global Undergraduate Student Technical Paper Competition and the IISE Operations Research Undergraduate Research Competition for Rebundle research.
2024
Appointment
Appointed to the Editorial Board of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
2024
Award
Source Ray Wood received first place in the IISE South Central Regional Conference Paper Competition for Rebundle manufacturing-optimization research.
2024
Appointment
Appointed to the Editorial Board of Transportation Research Part E.
2023
Award
Voted Outstanding Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering by Fall 2023 graduating seniors.
2023
Grant
DoD flow-through award received for Analysis Capabilities for Competition, Crisis, and Combat (AC4).
2023
Grant
Alaska DOT research award received for an intelligent truck transport-management application.
2023
Grant
Source NSF PFI-TT award received for a cloud-based electric-truck and drone route-management platform.
2023
Student
PhD student Shitao Yu completed his doctoral degree.
2023
Publication
Source Collaborative truck multi-drone delivery research accepted in Annals of Operations Research.
2023
Grant
Source NSF IRES award received for international research in air-taxi and drone decision analytics.
2023
Award
Source Received the Junior Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Missouri College of Engineering.
2023
Grant
Source NSF REU award received for prescriptive analytics in AI-enabled operations engineering.
2022
Publication
Source Passenger-intelligence text-analytics research accepted in Annals of Operations Research.
2022
Publication
Source Adaptive-clothing customer-review research accepted in International Journal of Consumer Studies.
2022
Source 2022
Award
Source Received the Outstanding IMSE Faculty Award for research, teaching, and service.
2022
Source 2022
Grant
Source NSF I-Corps award received for cloud-based route optimization for aerial and road logistics.
2022
Source 2022
Publication
Source Collaborative truck multi-drone routing research accepted in Transportation Research Part E.
2022
Student
PhD student Mohamed Salama completed his doctoral degree.
2022
Student
PhD student Haya Salah completed her doctoral degree.
2021
Recognition
Source Research featured among the MU College of Engineering's Top 10 Stories of 2021.
2021
Grant
Boeing grant awarded for CELDi – Optimal Supplier Collaboration; Co-Principal Investigator.
2021
Grant
Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development grant awarded; listed as Principal Investigator.
2021
Appointment
Appointed Academic Editor for the Journal of Healthcare Engineering.
2021
Appointment
Source Appointed Core Faculty at the MU Institute of Data Science and Informatics.
2021
Source 2020
Recognition
Source Named Best Paper Finalist in the INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analytics Competition.
2020
Publication
Source Critical review of air-taxi service for urban mobility accepted in Transportation Research Part E.
2020
Publication
Emergency-department process-reengineering research accepted in Simulation.
2020
Grant
Roche Molecular Systems grant awarded with Richard Hammer and Suchithra Rajendran.
2020
Leadership
Source Elected Director of the IISE Operations Research Division.
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