IEN, Industrial Engineering, Dr. Asfour, Chair University of Miami Industrial Assessment Center (MIIAC) Director: Dr. Shihab Asfour Anthony Burns Center for Advanced Supply Chain Management (CASCM) Director: Dr. Murat Erkoc Biomechanics Research Group (BRG) Manufacturing Research Institute (MRI) Director: Dr. Francesco Travascio

IEN Industrial Engineering Dr. Asfour, Chair University of Miami Simulation and Optimization Research Lab (SimLab) Director: Dr. Nurcin Celik 1: DYNAMIC-DATA-DRIVEN ADAPTIVE SIMULATIONS (DDDAS) Particle Filtering Approach 2: DDDAS-BASED MONITORING AND CONTROL OF AIR FORCE BASE MICROGRIDS DDDAS Approach 2: ELECTRIC UTILITY RESOURCE PLANNING Continuous-Discrete Modular Modeling Approach 3: SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN FLORIDA Hybrid Agent-based Modeling Approach 4: ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH AND SAFETY RISKS OF SOLID WASTE WORKERS IN FLORIDA Bayesian Analysis 3: EMERGENCY EVACUATION/WORKFORCE ASSIGNMENT Social Network Analysis Approach Dr. Nurcin Celik Lab Members Xiaoran Shi Aristotelis Thanos Mehrad Bastani Haluk Damgacioglu Talal Alyamani Duygu Yasar Gregory Collins David Reiff

Individuals, their Choices, and the Society Dr. Nazrul I Shaikh Marketing Engineering You can you measures someone’s preferences from the choices that they make. Then How can you systematically influence/cater to his/her choices? How do you develop a marketing strategy for your product or services? How can you leverage the social media for prediction and forecasting Example Projects: Quantifying how the public sentiments are evolving using Twitter and Google Trends data Developing an optimal digital marketing strategy for a Social Cause Social Networks One can measure how your friends and family, or strangers influence your opinions and choices. Then How do opinions, ideas, and choices spread in a networked society? How can you leverage what you know about individual and group behavior for developing a strategy? Example Projects: Sampling and the Multi-Armed Bandit Seeding-As a marketer, who should you give free samples to?

IEN Industrial Engineering Dr. Asfour, Chair Dr. Seokgi Lee, Assistant Professor in IE Methodologies : Distributed system and control Logical analysis of data Dynamic probabilistic systems Applications: Predictive analytics for delivering prevention services in education, psychology, and medicine areas Home healthcare service Energy-aware operations in manufacturing and logistics systems

IEN Industrial Engineering Dr. Asfour, Chair Dr. Ramin Moghaddass, Assistant Professor in IE Methodologies: Stochastic Programming and Control Data-Driven Decision Making under Uncertainty and Dynamic Environments Predictive Analytics and Big data Healthcare Analytics & Causal Inference Current Research Activities: Condition Monitoring and Maintenance Decision Making in Smart Grids Using Large-scale SCADA Data Data-Driven Cancer Diagnosis and Prediction Time-dependent Treatment Effects Analysis Using Longitudinal Medical Data