instructor

Course Instructor

	THEODORE B. TRAFALIS, Ph. D. Associate Professor, School of Industrial Engineering Director, Optimization & Intelligent Systems Laboratory 202 West Boyd, Room 124 Norman, OK 73019, USA Tel: (405) 325-4347 FAX: (405) 325-7555 & (405) 360-1013 E-mail: trafalis@mailhost.ecn.ou.edu
Qualifications	B.S. (1982), Mathematics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Graduated first in School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. M.S. (1984), Applied Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906. M.S.I.E. (1987), Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Ph.D. (1989), Operations Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.
Professional Experience	Visiting Associate Professor, Technical University of Crete, Department of Production Engineering and Management, Chania, Greece (Spring and Summer semester 1998). Visiting Associate Professor, CUST, Universite' Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France (April 20, 1998 - May 20, 1998, Spetember 21, 1998 - October 20, 1998). Associate Professor, School of Industrial Engineering, the University of Oklahoma (August 1997-present). Invited Research Fellow (fully funded), Faculty & Technical Mathematics and Informatics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands (May 28, 1996 - July 28, 1996). Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (August 1989 - May 1990). Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University (June 1984 - May 1989). Teaching Assistant, School of Industrial Engineering (June 1988 - August 1988). Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University (August 1982 - August 1988).
Professional Interests	Operation Research/Management Science: Mathematical Programming, Interior Point Methods, Multiobjective Optimization, Control Theory, Computational and Algebraic Geometry, Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Systems, Evolutionary Programming, and Global Optimization, Large Scale Optimization, Financial Optimization, Support Vector Machines, Data Mining, and Machine Learning.
Courses Taught	Theoretical Foundations of Optimization, Nonlinear Programming, Engineering Economics, Calculus, Algebra and Geometry, Advanced Calculus, Operations Research, Simulation of Industrial Systems, Multicriteria Optimizations, Interior Point Methods, Engineering Optimization, Interior Programming, and Optimization Neural Networks.
University Services	Faculty Senate Member, 1999-2001 Founding member, Center for Engineering Optimization, University of Oklahoma (1997 - present). Committee for Best Dissertation Award in Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Oklahoma (1996). Arranged talks for three internationally recognized speakers in the area of optimization (Fall 1992 - Dr. Wallenius, Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland) (Fall 1994 - Dr. Pardalos, Co-director of Center of Applied Optimization, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL). (Fall 1996 - Dr. Terlaky, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands). Offered compressed video class ( IE5643) both at OU and OSU ('95). Member, Advisory Board, Center of Information Technology and Computing, University of Oklahoma (1995). IE Undergraduate Committee, University of Oklahoma (1993-1997). IE Graduate Committee, University of Oklahoma (1993 - present). Academic Appeal Panel of the Graduate College, University of Oklahoma (1993-1994, 1996-1997, 1999-2000). Member, School of Industrial Engineering, Director Search Committee, University of Oklahoma (1992 and 1993). Marshall, Graduation Ceremonies, University of Oklahoma (1993). IE/OR Committee, University of Oklahoma (1991-present), Chair & OR Committee. Faculty Advisor, Hellenic Student Association, Purdue University (1990). President, Hellenic Student Association, Purdue University (1987-1989). Graduate and Undergraduate Advising (1991-present).
Foreign Languages	Knowledge & fluent Greek, good reading knowledge of French and German.
Academic Awards	Nominated for best paper award, ANNIE'95, International Conference in Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, St. Louis, Missori, 1995. Kerr McGee Distinguished Lectureship, University of Oklahoma, 1995. Obermann Faculty Fellowship, University of Iowa Center for Advanced Studies, 1994. David Ross Fellowship, Purdue Research Foundation, June 1988 - Aug 1988 and June 1989 - Aug 1989. Summer Fellowship, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, June 1982 - Aug 1982. Scholarships for Academic Excellence, University of Athens, Greece, 1978 - 1982.
Honor Society Membership	Operation Research Honor Society (Omega Rho).
Professional Organizations	Institute for Operation Research and Management Science, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Hellenic Operational Research Society, International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, American Society for Engineering Education, Insitute of Industrial Engineering, International Society of Neural Networks.
Professional Activities	Organizing Committee Member, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ANNIE 2000, St. Louis, MO, November 2000. Oganizing Committee Member, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ANNIE '99, St. Louis, MO, November 1999. Committee for the area "Supervised and Unsupervised learning", International Conference on Neural networks, ICCN '97, Houston, TX, June '97. Session Chair for the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, ANNIE '96, St. Louis, MO, November 1996. Invited Panel Member for the best paper award for the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, ANNIE '96, St. Louis, MO, November 1996. Invited Delegate, Delegation of Engineers and Engineering Educators to South Africa, June 16-19, 1996. Member of Exhibits Committee for International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'96), Washington, DC, June 3-6, 1996. Chaired invited session in Multicriteria Optimization for the International TIMS XXXII meeting, Anchorage, AK, June 1994. Chaired session at TIMS XXX-SOBRARO XXIII Joint International Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 1991. Referee in Naval Research Logistics, Handbook of Industrial Engineering, Mathematic Programming, Management Science, European Journal of Operation research, Multicriteria Decision Analysis, Operations Research, J. Assoc. Comput. Mach. (J. ACM), Computers and Operations Research, Optimization Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on SMG. Invited Delegtae, Research and management Science Leaders People to People Program to Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, May 17-30, 1997. Reviewer, National Science Foundation, 1992-present. Chaired session at ORSA/TIMS meeting, Boston, MA, April 1994. Chaired session at ORSA/TIMS meeting, Chicago, IL, May 1993. Chaired session at ORSA/TIMS meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 1992. Chaired session at ORSA/TIMS national meeting, Orlando, FL, April 1992.
Interdisciplinary Activities	Have been very aggressive in working with faculty in other departments on interdisciplinary research. Have worked on joint proposals with faculty from Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering. Have served on numerous Ph.D. and M.S. committees in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering.
Listed in	Who's Who in the South and Southwest (to be listed). Who's Who in Science and Engineering (to be listed). Who's Who in the World, 11th Edition, 1993/1994. Bibliography Database for Interior Point Methods, Netlib Library, 1993.

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