Postdoc
Dr. Shaolong Hu, 2018-2020
- Ph.D. in Management Science and Management at Tongji University in 2017.
- Currently an Assistant Professor at the College of Economics and Management at Southwest Jiaotong University in China.
Graduate Students
Oluwasegun Gabriel Olanrewaju, 2017-2019
- Master Student of Industrial Engineering at Texas State
- Master Thesis: “Pre-positioning Relief Supplies and Supplier Selection Strategy in Disaster Relief”
- 2019 IISE Annual Conference Modeling and Simulation Track Best Student Paper
- Texas State Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award
- Currently a PhD student at the University of Miami
Lingyu Meng, 2018-2020
- Master Student of Industrial Engineering at Texas State
- Master Thesis: “Sentiment Analysis and Ridesharing Models of Disaster Response”
- 2020 IISE Annual Conference Logistic and Supply Chain Track Best Student Paper
- Texas State Outstanding Graduate Student Award
- Currently a lecturer at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Dixizi Liu, 2019-2021
- Master Student of Industrial Engineering at Texas State
- Master Thesis: “Machine Learning Applications in Emergency Management”
- PEO International Peace Scholarship (IPS) Recipient
- Currently a PhD student at Clemson University
Joseph Munar, Summer 2020
- Master Student of Industrial Engineering at Rice University
- Recipient of Rice CAAM-Chevron Prize
Undergraduate Students
Zachary Schneiderman, 2017-2018
- Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at Texas State
- Research work sponsored by SRC-URO program.
- First position after the UTIL lab is hardware verification engineer at AMD.
Paula Andrea Cruz, Summer 2018
- Bachelor of Industrial Engineering at Texas State
- Research work sponsored by SRC-URO program.
- First position after the UTIL lab is hardware verification engineer at Samsung
Melina Mijares, Summer 2018
- Bachelor of Industrial Engineering at Texas State
- Research work sponsored by SURE program
- First position after the UTIL lab is Programs Assistant at Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute.
Loraine Ribon, Summer 2018-Fall 2018
- Bachelor of Industrial Engineering at Texas State
- Research work sponsored by NSF H-LSAMP program and SURE Program
- First position after the UTIL lab is Operations Analyst at Minigrip.
Jorge Dozal, Summer 2020
- Bachelor of Industrial Engineering at Texas State
- Research work sponsored by SURE Program
- First position after the UTIL lab is Project Manager at Airogistic.
- INFORMS ORMS Today First Undergraduate Mini Research Poster Competition, Honorable Mention, 2020
Daniel Jacobson, 2020-2021
- Bachelor of Industrial Engineering at Virginia Tech
- Research work sponsored by NSF REU program
- First position after the UTIL lab is Data Analyst at Wells Fargo
- INFORMS ORMS Today First Undergraduate Mini Research Poster Competition, First Place, 2020
- IISE OR Division Undergraduate Research Dissemination Award, Third Place, 2021
Menna Hassan, 2020-2021
- Bachelor of Computer Science, Purdue University
- Research work sponsored by NSF REU program
- First position after the UTIL lab is Graduate Student at the University of Chicago
- INFORMS ORMS Today First Undergraduate Mini Research Poster Competition, First Place, 2020
- IISE OR Division Undergraduate Research Dissemination Award, Third Place, 2021
Visiting Students
Penghui Guo，Fall 2019
- Ph.D. student majoring in Management Science and Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China.
- The academic experience of him can be found at https://guo.ph.
Haichao Chen, Fall 2019
- Master student of Mechanical Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University. He received his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2017