My research, teaching, and service seek to advance the industry with respect to novel processes in the areas of supply chain management, project controls, and resource management as well as through supporting research in information management and design of advanced decision support systems. All this work takes a systems perspective, with close attention to implementation issues. The impact of this work has been recognized with sustained funding by industry and government, with major grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Construction Industry Institute, Fiatech, and the Texas Department of Transportation. As a teacher, I have received a "Gold Award" from the University of Texas' Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program, reflecting my continuing endeavors to bring new methods and technologies to teaching.

Courses:

ARE 323k - Project Management & Economics

CE 370P - Engineering Professionalism

CE395 Q.1 - Project Controls

CE395 Q.2 - Project Production Systems

CE397 P.2 - Project Finance

CE395 V.1 - PhD Research Seminar

CURRENT TEAM

Doctoral

• Vishal Porwal

• Sunjae Yoon

• Eunseo Kim

Masters

• Aqsa Munir

Prospective Students: Graduate Studies in CEPM at UT Austin

Collaborators

Dr. O'Brien and the MOVE team have collaborated widely on projects with leading scholars. At the University of Texas, current collaborators include Dr. Douglas Morrice (McCombs School of Business), Drs. Patricia Clayton, Raissa Ferron, Maria Juenger, Salvatore Salamone (Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering), and Drs. Mitch Pryor and Carolyn Seepersad (Mechanical Engineering). Past collaborators include Drs. Christine Julien, Randolph Bias, Mike Walton, Jim O'Connor, and Fernanda Leite.

FORMER STUDENTS AND VISITING SCHOLARS

MOVE alumni have taken leadership positions in industry and academia.

Post-Doctoral

• Minhyuk Jung (Seoul National University)

• Simone Ponticelli (Accenture Strategy)

• Fernando Solis Mondragon (Sortly)

• Xue Xiaolong (Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology)

Doctoral

• Seogjae Choi (Post-Doctoral Scholar, University of Texas at Austin)

• Chirag Kothari (Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)

• Vassilki Demetracopoulou (Assistant Professor, Rutgers University)

• Vineeth Dharmapalan (Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic State University)

• Jojo France-Mensah (ServiceNow)

• Bharathwaj Sankaran (WSP USA)

• Junghye Son (Center for Transportation Research, UT Austin)

• Fernando Mondragon (Sortly)

• Sungmin Yun (Assistant Professor, Yeungnam University, Korea)

• Xiaowei Luo (Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong)

• Thuy Nguyen (Keypath Education, Australia)

• Youngcheol Kang (Associate Professor, Yonsei University, Korea)

• Ting-Kwei Wang (Associate Professor, Chonqing University, China)

• Marcelo Azambuja (TxDOT)

• Pin-Chao Liao (Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China)

• Mohsin Siddiqui (Assistant Professor, University of Delaware)

• Haiyan Xie (Professor, Illinois State University)

• Otto Fetterhoff (Fetterhoff Consulting)

• Mohammad El-Mashaleh (Professor, Hashemite University, Jordan)

• Hong Long Chen (Professor, National University of Tainan, Taiwan)

Masters

• Byung-Gi Han

• Tony Zaghrini

• Manuel Trevino

• Nikitha Verghese

• Anshu Fauzdar

• Vassilki Demetracopoulou

• Gabriel Carlosena

• Augusto Vitorio Tiezzi

• Daniel Delgado Camacho

• Kareem Mostafa

• Gurpreet Kaur

• Jacob Parz

• Stephen Becker

• Nassim Hamed

• Juan Sebastian Gutierrez

• Ignacio De Sande Palma

• Piyush Jajpuria

• Mayra Martinez

• Bharathwaj Sankaran

• Ambareesha Nittala

• Will Barry

• Tim Pach

• Justin Howe

• Quincy Baity

• Haegon Kim

• Olfa Hamdi

• Yoganand Mandali

• Anup Sarsturkar

• Vijaya Shah 

• Jean Goyat 

• Jesus Schuldes

• Sarah Meeks 

• Cameron Schmeits 

• Anushree Dandriyal

• Krishna Radhakrishnan

• Prakash Singh

• Swapneel Bedagkar

• Pierre Gau 

• Ravi Vaish

• Jiangnan Yi

• David Ortiz 

• Nilesh Nayak

• Marc Distefano

• Chun Kit Chow

• Wenhan Hu

• Dae Young Kim

• Lauren Jacobsen

• Michael Hurley

• Chuan Song

• David Tyus

• Sailee Bondre

• Michael Maruri

• Jaehyun Choi

• Deepalaxmi Rasalkar

• Umut Kocaman

• Luis Silva

• Mera Faddoul

• Benjamin Lun