Prof.
David Coit is the Principal Investigator on a new grant, Development
of Reliability Models to Support the Recovery Gear Service
Life Analysis Program, awarded from the US. Navy (Naval Air
Engineering Station) to a team of Rutgers and Alion Science
& Technology. The Rutgers part of the grant is for $261,000.
Dr.
Baykal-Gursoy is the recipient of 2008-2009 Rutgers Engineering
Governing Council Excellence in Teaching Award in I&SE.
Congratulations!
Congratulations
to Dr. Özel!
Dr.
Tugrul Özel has been granted tenure and promotion to
Associate Professor effective July 1, 2008.
Congratulations
to Dr. Albin!
Dr.
Susan Albin has won election to President-Elect 2009 for the
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
(INFORMS). The appointment is effective as of January, 2009
and she will succeed 2008 INFORMS President in January, 2010.
INFORMS
is the world's largest society of professionals in operations
research and management science.
It serves the scientific and professional community of O.R.
and Industrial Engineering researchers, educators, scientists,
students, and practitioners in academic, government, non-profit,
and industrial organizations.
INFORMS
publishes 12 highly ranked scholarly journals that describe
the latest O.R. advances. The Institute organizes international
and national conferences for academics and professionals.
INFORMS is comprised
of technical subdivisions that focus on specific methodical
and application areas that form the backbone for the Institute.
Prof. Albin has previously served on the INFORMS Board of
Directors and as Secretary. She was the founding Advisory
Board Chair for the INFORMS subdivision in Quality, Statistics,
and Reliability.
Congratulations
to Dr. W. Art Chaovalitwongse and Ya-Ju Fan (ISE PhD Student)
on the 2008
Pierskalla Best Paper Award by the INFORMS (Institute
for Operations Research and the Management Sciences).
Dr.
Art and Ya-Ju together with their collaborator, Dr. Rajesh
Sachdeo from Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Princeton
Medical Center, won the 2008 Pierskalla award, which recognizes
research excellence in the field of health care management
science.
The
award was based on the paper titled "Novel Optimization
Models for Abnormal Brain Activity Classification", which
will be published in the next issue of Operations Research.
http://www.informs.org/index.php?c=545&kat=HCA%3A+Pierskalla+Best+Paper+Award
Dr.
Melike Baykal-Gursoy's proposal, "Assessing the Status
of Women in Engineering at Rutgers University," was selected
for funding in the amount of $7,950, by the Office of Promotion
of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics.
Congratulations!
Dr. Coit is the recipient of the Alan O. Plait Tutorial Excellence
Award.
This award is for his tutorial entitled "Probabilistic
Models and Statistical Methods in Reliability""
given at the 2008 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium
(RAMS) in Las Vegas, Nevada, and will be recognized and presented
with his award at the upcoming RAMS banquet on January 28,
2009 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Congratulations
to Dr. Luxhoj on his new grant award from FAA:
Development
of UAS System Hazard Descriptions and Methodologies for Safety
Risk Uncertainty Modeling, Phase 1 ($461,954), Dr. Jim Luxhoj
(PI), Federal Aviation Administration, July 1, 2008 - August
31, 2009.
Dr.
Chaovalitwongse was awarded an International patent (US 7,373,199),
titled "Optimization of Multi-Dimensional Time Series
Processing for Seizure Warning and Prediction".
Dr.
Altiok was part of two panels on "Port Development in
South Jersey" organized by the South Jersey Development
Council.
The
panel discussions focused on the port expansion projects and
the impact of port expansion on South Jersey communities and
the State's economy. The panelists included Kris Kolluri,
Commissioner, NJDOT, T. Altiok, Rutgers University, Thomas
Carver, Exec. Director, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority,
NJ and John Matheussen, CEO, Delaware River Port Authority.
Dr.
Özel has been awarded a grant from the National Science
Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing
Innovation. This research award of $186,039 will
support a collaborative research project entitled "Improving
Machinability of Titanium Alloys using Physics-based Simulation
Modeling" between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2011.
Dr.
M. Baykal-Gursoy together with her collaborators
E. Boros (RUTCOR), Rick Lathrop(Center for Remote Sensing&Spatial
Analysis, N. Fefferman (DIMACS), Dina Fonseca and Randy Gaugler
(Center for Vector Biology), and Mark Robson (New Jersey Agricultural
Experiment Station) have been awarded a 2008 Academic Excellence
Fund (AEF) for the establishment of the Rutgers University
Climate and Health Research Initiative (CHRI).
The research team will focus on investigating and minimizing
the impact of extreme climatic events on human health.
Drs.
Boucher and Elsayed, along with Drs. Martin and Elnahrawy
of Computer Science Department, have been awarded the Collaborative
Computing Research grant from Rutgers' Computing Coordination
Council, "Improving Healthcare Utilization using Real-Time
Tracking". The research team will develop and
implement a system that combines real-time electronic tracking
of hospital assets using RFID tags with scheduling of the
use of these assets to improve hospital services. The target
application is a regional in-patient cancer center.
Dr.
Chaovalitwongse (PI) and his collaborators (Co-PIs: BME Professor
E. Micheli-Tzanakou, BME Professor N. Boustany, UMDNJ-RWJMS
Neurosurgery Professor R. Lehman, UMDNJ-RWJMS Neurology Professor
B. Wu) have been awarded the Collaborative Computing Research
grant from Rutgers' Computing Coordination Council. The
seed fund of $50,000 will support a collaborative research
project entitled: "Spatio-Temporal Data Mining in Brain
Disorder and Cognitive Function Study". Dr. Chaovalitwongse
will lead the team to exploit advances in optimization, signal
processing, and statistical approaches to improve the current
technology of brain diagnosis. Several medical applications
will be studied, including Epilepsy, Parkinson's Disease,
Alzheimer's Disease, and other brain disorders.
Drs.
Chaovalitwongse and Pham, together with ECE Professor M. Parashar,
CS Professor T. Nguyen and MIS Professor H. Xioang, have been
awarded a 2008 Academic Excellence Fund (AEF). The
funding of $75,000 will support Rutgers' Center of Excellence
for Cyber-Security and Information Assurance (CSIA).
Dr.
James T. Luxhoj, "Safety Risk Analysis of Unmanned Aircraft
Systems (UAS) Integration into the National Airspace System
(NAS): Phase 2," ($157,983): Principal Investigator,
Federal Aviation Administration, September 1, 2007 - August
30, 2008.
Dr.
Mohsen A. Jafari, "Protecting Intelligent Distributed
Power Grids Against Cyber Attacks," Siemens, $360,000,
November 01, 2007 - October 31, 2009, (Co-PI with M. Muller).
Dr.
Mohsen A. Jafari, "Decision Support Systems for Roadway
Safety," USDOT/Federal Highway Commission, $250,000,
November 01, 2007 - April 30, 2009.
Dr.
Mohsen A. Jafari, "Seed Money for Research in Distribution
Systems," Siemens, $40,000, December 01, 2007 - November
30, 2008.
Dr.
Mohsen A. Jafari, "Traffic Safety," USDOT/FHUA/CAIT,
$350,000, September 01, 2007 - August 30, 2008.
Dr.
Elsayed A. Elsayed, "Investigation of Aircraft Separation
Standards and Navigational Equipment on the Oceanic Airspace
Capacity and Safety," FAA, $168,000, Award No. 06-G-016,
September 5, 2007- August 28, 2008.
Dr.
Elsayed A. Elsayed, "Implementation of Continuous Sheet
Folding Technology," Titan Folding Technologies, $100,446,
September 1, 2007-Decemeber 31, 2008 (Co-PI with B. Basily).
Dr.
Elsayed A. Elsayed, "Investigation of Decision Support
Systems for Aviation Safety Evaluation," FAA, $162,000
Award No. 07-G-001, December 1, 2007-November 30,
2008.
Dr.
Özel received a research grant from United Technologies
Research Center, Investigations on Influence of Machining
Induced Strain, Stress and Temperature Fields on White-Etch
Layer Formation in IN-100 Super Alloy, Phase I & Phase
II, Principal Investigator, (5/2007-12/2007): $26,057.
Dr.
Baykal-Gursoy received a research grant from Rutgers Transportation
Coordinating Council/Federal Transit Administration. Managing
Incidents and Emergencies in Transportation, Rutgers TCC/FTA
Grant, Principal Investigator, (9/2007-8/2008): $30,000.
Dr.
Pham gave a keynote lecture on Mortality Modeling - Bioenvironmental
Issues and Perspectives at the U.S. – Korea Workshop:
Understanding Bioenvironmental Complexity, July 9 –
10, 2007, Seoul, Korea.
Dr.
Pham was selected to be a Member of IEEE Computer Society
Fellow Evaluation Committee, May – July 2007.
Dr.
Pham served as an Honorary Chair of the ISSAT International
Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, August 2-4,
2007, Seattle, WA.
Dr.
Pham served as a General Chair of the International Conference
on Modeling of Complex Systems and Environments, Ho Chi Minh
City, Vietnam, July 16-18, 2007.
Dr.
Tortorella has been selected to be a Member of The President’s
National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
Dr.
Tortorella received IEEE Communications Society Technical
Committee on Quality and Reliability 2007 Chairman's Award.
Dr. Luxhøj was promoted to Full Professor of
Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Dr.
Luxhøj is the recipient of the 2006-2007 Rutgers Engineering
Governing Council’s Excellence in Teaching Award for
the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Dr. Luxhøj received
a Phase 2 award for the research grant from the Federal Aviation
Administration. Dr.
Luxhøj received a Phase 2 award in the amount of $157,983
for the research grant “Safety Risk Analysis of Unmanned
Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration into the National Airspace
System (NAS)” from the Federal Aviation Administration.
This brings the total award to $301,028 for the period July
1, 2006 – August 30, 2008.
Dr.
Chaovalitwongse was awarded a United States patent (US 7,263,467
B2), titled “Multi-Dimensional Multi-Parameter Time
Series Processing for Seizure Warning and Prediction".
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