ISE Welcomes Gino Lim, Ph.D.

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Drones: A new emerging application of Operations Research

 

Seminar by Gino Lim, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair

Hari and Anjali faculty fellow

Department of Industrial Engineering

University of Houston

 

Wednesday, September 5th, 2018

4:00-5:00pm

144 Baker Systems

1971 Neil Avenue

 

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or a drone is an aircraft without a pilot that usually flies over preprogrammed way-points or controlled by a ground control unit. Recently, the use of drones has been actively studied in civilian fields, as opposed to the military use, such as monitoring oil/gas pipelines, assessing damaged power lines, delivering commercial items, collecting aerial shots, and aiding healthcare. This talk will focus on new findings in the use of drones and how the OR techniques/methods are used to optimize drone operations. The first problem I will talk about is a routine drug delivery problem using drones for patients with chronic diseases, who are required to visit clinics for routine health examinations in rural areas. The second problem is about a new concept for extending drone flight durations for a routine surveillance mission such as border patrol. I will also share new research venues to be explored in this area.

Gino Lim is Professor and Chairman, and Hari and Anjali faculty fellow, in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Houston (UH). He is a fellow of IISE. His research interests are in robust optimization, large-scale optimization models and computational algorithms, Operations Research applications in healthcare, homeland security, and network resiliency. He received multiple awards from INFORMS including the Pierskalla Best Paper Award, Moving Spirit Award, and Volunteer Service Award. He has also received the Best Paper Award in the IISE energy systems division. His excellence in teaching has been well recognized by receiving multiple teaching awards at UH. He is the VP for Chapters/Fora of INFORMS. Previously, he was the program chair of 2017 INFORMS annual conference (Houston, TX), the chair of Bonder Scholarship committee for healthcare society of INFORMS, a past program chair for 2012 ISERC conference (FL), and a program Co-Chair of 2013 ISERC doctoral colloquium. He received both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from University of Wisconsin – Madison.