REU Site: Research on Perspective Analytics for AI - enabled Operations Engineering

Dr. Suchi Rajendran is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and in the Department of Marketing in the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri. She has worked on projects with companies such as Case New Holland and Schneider Electric. She is a recipient of the Richard Wallace Faculty Incentive Grant, Bob Bloss Faculty Enhancement Grant and Winemiller Excellence Award in Data Analytics. She is a Penn State National Science Foundation Center for Health Organization Transformation (NSF CHOT) scholar, Service Enterprise Engineering Fellow and also a recipient of the DAAD-WISE Fellowship of Germany. She is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Her research interests include health care delivery systems, supply chain optimization, marketing data analytics, multiple criteria decision making and quality assurance.

Dr. Prasad Calyam is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Greg L. Gilliom Professor of Cyber Security, director of the Cyber Education, Research and Infrastructure Center (Mizzou CERI) and a core faculty member in the MU Institute for Data Science & Informatics. Previously, he was a research director at the Ohio Supercomputer Center/Ohio Academic Resources Network at The Ohio State University. He currently directs a research group in the Virtualization, Multimedia and Networking (VIMAN) Lab. His research and development areas of interest include cloud computing, cybersecurity and computer networking. He has published more than 185 papers in various conference and journal venues. As the principal investigator, he has successfully led teams of graduate, undergraduate and postdoctoral fellows in numerous federal-, state- and industry-sponsored research and development projects. His research sponsors include: National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), National Security Agency (NSA), Department of State (DOS), Army Research Lab (ARL), VMware, Cisco, Raytheon-BBN, Dell, Verizon, IBM, Huawei, Coulter Foundation, University of Missouri System, Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT), Internet2, and others. His basic research on multi-domain network measurement and monitoring has been commercialized as ‘Narada Metrics’. He currently serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, and previously served as an editor for IEEE Communications Magazine and chair of NSF visioning workshops. He is a Senior IEEE Member.

Dr. Sharan Srinivas is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Department of Marketing at the University of Missouri (MU). He is also a core faculty at the MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics, and a visiting faculty at the University of Passau, Germany. Srinivas received his PhD in industrial engineering and operations research from the Pennsylvania State University. Srinivas’ area of specialization is data analytics and operations research with research interests in healthcare operations management, transportation/logistics, smart service systems and supply chain. He has been an investigator on a range of industry, state and federally funded research projects. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles in journals, conferences, books, and trade publications. Dr. Srinivas has taught undergraduate, graduate and MBA level courses that include topics pertaining to data analytics, machine learning, simulation, service systems and supply chain optimization. He is also an active member of INFORMS and IISE professional societies, and has served numerous times as a session chair in their annual conferences. Srinivas is a certified six sigma black belt and recipient of multiple awards (INFORMS Koopman prize, INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analytics Best Paper Finalist, Winemiller Excellence Award, Richard Wallace Faculty Grant, Service Enterprise Engineering Fellowship).

Dr. James S. Noble is a professor and chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Missouri and MU Site Director for the graduated NSF I/UCRC Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution (CELDi). Noble is currently working on research related to integrated production systems, humanitarian logistics and supply chain system design. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Bayer, Boeing, Hallmark Cards., Honeywell FMT, Medline, Ameren, UMB Financial, the U.S. Economic Development Administration, the Midwest Transportation Consortium and the Missouri Department of Transportation. He received the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineering award in 1997. He was honored with the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in 2022 and received the 2014 Win Horner Award for Innovative Writing Intensive Teaching. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) in 2019. He is a registered professional engineer in Missouri.

Dr. Jianfeng Zhou has mentored more than 20 graduate and undergraduate students (including 5 women students) within the University of Missouri and external institutions. He is closely working with students in different projects using emerging sensing, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has taught four different undergraduate courses with course projects at the University of Missouri. He has mentored high-school students in a robot team.

Dr. Se Woong Lee is an Associate Professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He earned his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and joined the ELPA department in 2016. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on policy and program evaluation in education, and he teaches graduate courses in education policy analysis. His work has been published in several journals, including Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching. He has served as PI for the American Educational Research Association and the Russell Sage Foundation.