Faculty

• Department Chair and Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management

• Cecil H. Green Professor of Engineering

• Primary research areas: supply chain, production and manufacturing systems modeling and optimization under uncertainty and healthcare delivery and operations management

sila@lyle.smu.edu

• Assistant Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management 

• Primary research areas: mathematical optimization and statistical learning

mijua@smu.edu

• O'Donnell Foundation Professor
• Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Co-Executive Director, Center for Digital and Human-Augmented Manufacturing (CDHAM)
• Professor of Computer Science and Operations Research and Engineering Management (by Courtesy)
• Primary research areas: physics-inspired machine learning for engineering prognosis and discovery and human-augmented control and optimization of complex systems

aalaeddini@smu.edu 

• Associate Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management

• Primary research areas: computational data analytics and data envelopment analysis and optimization for quantum and high-performance computers

barr@lyle.smu.edu

• Assistant Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management

• Primary research areas: design and analysis of algorithms and machine learning theory

dboob@smu.edu

• Associate Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management

• Primary research areas: supply chain risk management and security, partially observable Markov Decision Processes and Markov Games, structural estimation and dynamic discrete choice models, mental fatigue

ylchang@smu.edu

• Associate Chair and Clinical Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management

• Primary research areas: systems engineering & risk management and engineering education and curriculum

deaston@mail.smu.edu

• Senior Lecturer of Operations Research & Engineering Management

• Primary research areas: systems engineering and project technical management

jevers@smu.edu

• Associate Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management

• Primary research areas: stochastic programming: models and stochastic optimization algorithms and large-scale computational optimization

harsha@smu.edu

• Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Associate Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management (by Courtesy)
• Primary research areas: machine learning & deep learning and applied machine learning in health and education

eclarson@lyle.smu.edu

• Bobby B. Lyle Centennial Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship
• Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Professor or Operations Research & Engineering Management (by Courtesy)
• Primary research areas: photonic integrated circuits and quantum informatics

dmacfarlane@lyle.smu.edu

• Associate Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management

• Primary research areas: combinatorial optimization and mathematical programming

olinick@lyle.smu.edu

• Associate Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management 

• Primary research areas: stochastic systems and applied probability with applications to service, healthcare and inventory systems and performance analysis, control and stability of stochastic systems

operry@smu.edu

• Associate Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management

• Primary research areas: advanced analytics and decision making under high uncertainty

athiele@smu.edu

• Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management
• Fellow in Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
• Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering (by Courtesy)
• Primary research areas: network optimization and applied and computational optimization with applications in transportation/logistics, emergency response, bioenergy supply networks, closed loop supply chains, and telecommunications

uster@smu.edu