ISE Seminar Series
The ISE Seminar Series bring speakers to talk about cutting-edge ISE-related research with the generous support of donors to ISE.
Fall 2026 Speakers
Spring 2026 Speakers
Fall 2025 Speakers
Past Speakers
FALL 2019
September 24-Distinguished Alumni Seminar Series: Masatoshi Wakabayashi, MSIE’92, UB: Global Project Business in Intralogistics Automation
October 28th- HFES Sponsored Interactive Forum: ISE Alumna, Theresa Guarrera, MSIE'10, UB: Discussion about fostering a Human Factors career path, Optimizing your graduate school experience, her personal career path, what it's like to be in the Human Factors Industry and finding your stride in your career.
November 15- Distinguished Researcher Series Seminar (co-sponsored with INFORMS): Alice Smith, Auburn University: Understanding the Journal Paper Process and Writing Papers that will be Chosen for Publication
FALL 2018
October 19- Siqian Shen, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor: "Optimization Methods for the Design and Operations of Complex Mobility Systems"
October 29- Mike North, National Football League: "Creating the NFL Schedule"
November 2- Simage Küçükyavuz, Northwestern University
November 9- Rong Pan, Arizona State University
November 30- Gino Lim, University of Houston: "Drone-aided Healthcare Delivery for Patients with Chronic Diseases in Rural Areas and Uncertain Battery Duration"
December 5- Laura Stanley, Clemson University
SPRING 2019
March 8th: Dr. Joseph Sarkis (Professor, Worchester Polytechnic Institute)
April 5th: Dr. Jianjun Shi (The Carolyn J. Stewart Chair and Professor, Georgia Tech)
April 19th: Dr. Nathan Lau (Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech)
April 26th: Dr. Roshanak Nateghi (Assistant Professor, Purdue University)
FALL 2017
September 15- Judy Edworthy, Plymouth University
September 22- Hongyue Sun, University at Buffalo
September 29- Peter Elkin, University at Buffalo
October 20- Sunderesh Heragu, Oklahoma State University
November 3- Jan Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology
November 10- Mark Chignell, University of Toronto
December 1- Fei Fang, Carnegie Mellon University
December 8- Matthew Plumlee, Northwestern University
SPRING 2018
February 16- Vladimir Boginski, University of Central Florida
March 9- Linsey Steege, University of Wisconsin- Madison
March 16- Joy Bhadury, SUNY Brockport
April 6- James Bliss, Old Dominion University
April 13- SangHyun Lee, University of Michigan
April 20- Young-Jun Son, University of Arizona
April 27- David Mendonca, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
February 17 - Sibel Alumur Alev, University of Waterloo: "Design of Intermodal Hub Networks with Different Vehicle Types"
February 3 - Jim Blythe, University of Southern California: "Modeling Human Behavior to Improve Cyber Security"
December 9 - Philip J. Smith, Ohio State University: "1. Distributed Work in the National Airspace System. 2. Industrial and Systems Engineering at OSU: Directions for the Future."
December 2 - Biplab Bhattacharya, University at Buffalo: "Tackling Inequity in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains using Mobile Pharmacies in Low-resource Countries"
November 21 - T. Kirubarajan (Kiruba), McMaster University: "Bias Estimation and Sensor Registration for Target Tracking"
September 30 - Catherine Burns, Waterloo: "Human Factors 2020: Adjusting our methods for the next generation of problems."
September 23 - Eric Williams, Rochester Institute of Technology: "Characterizing and managing energy consumption using Time-use"
September 11 - David Hostler, University at Buffalo: "Heat stress and performance among structural firefighters"
October 2 - Ibrahim Tarik Ozbolat, Penn State University: "3D Bioprinting of Living Tissues and Organs"
October 9 - Donald Wagner, Office of Naval Research: "Bipartite and Eulerian Minors"
October 23 - Prahalad Rao, Binghamton University: "Graph Theoretic Approaches for Analysis of Complex Systems and Processes: Application to Manufacturing and Neurophysiology"
December 4 - Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University: "Sports Scheduling, Benders, and Business Analytics"
December 11 - Michael (Mike) North, NFL: "Creating the NFL Schedule"
February 5 - Frank Ritter, Penn State University: “Modeling Novice to Expert Performance with a Modeling Compiler”
February 19 - Moustapha Diaby, University of Connecticut
March 1 - Patrick Dempsey, NIOSH
March 4 - Chris Paradis, Georgia Tech
March 11 - Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts
April 1 - Dan Guide, Penn State University: "False Failure Returns: An Experimental Investigation of Supply Chain Coordination"
[RESCHEDULED FROM NOV. 13]
April 8 - Jos Aarts, University at Buffalo
April 22 - Sundar Krishnamurty, University of Massachusetts
May 6 - Carolina Osorio, MIT
Sept 12 - Jose Walteros, University at Buffalo: "A Mathematical Programming Framework for Detecting Sybil Communities in Online Social Networks"
Sept 26 - Josepth Guenes, University of Florida: "Production Planning with Price Dependent Supply Capacity"
October 3 - Dan Salyn, Programs, Management, Analytics and Technologies (PMAT) Incorporated: "The State of Innovation in the Department of Defense"
October 10 - Opher Baron, University of Toronto "From Product Form Queues to Queue Decomposition: The State-Dependent Mn/Gn/1 Example"
October 17 - Shuya Yin, University of California, Irvine
October 31 - Denis Cormier, Rochester Institute of Technology
November 10 - Daniel Fox, University of Virginia: "The Role of Virtual Reality Driving Simulation from the Health Care Perspective"
November 21 - Sean Wu, University at Buffalo
December 5 - Mike Wei, University at Buffalo
January 30 - Murat Kurt, University at Buffalo
February 13 - Sara Czaja, University of Miami
February 20 - Michael Kim, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto: "Approximate Learning Trajectories for Bayesian Bandits""
March 6 - Occupational Safety and Health Lecture - Susan Moir, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
March 13 - Ling Rothrock, Pennsylvania State University
March 23 - Diwakar Gupta, Director, CMMI Program, NSF
March 27 - Alejandro Rivera, International Distinguished Alumnus
April 10 - Robert Dell, Naval Post Graduate School
April 17 - Edwin Romeijn, Georgia Institute of Technology
April 24 - Linda Nozick, Cornell University
May 1 - Sergiy Butenko, Texas A & M
May 8 - Steven Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
Sept 27 - Pitu Mirchandani - Arizona State U: "Routing, logistics, and management of recharging infrastructure for electric vehicles"
Oct 4 - Hossein Abouee Mehrizi, University of Waterloo: "Multi-period Proactive Transshipment for Perishable Products"
Oct 11 - Lin Li, University of Illinois at Chicago: "A novel modeling method for joint production and energy efficiency management of sustainable manufacturing systems"
Nov 1 - Jose Ramirz-Marquez, Stevens Institute of Technology: "Advances in Resilience Engineering"
Nov 8 - Gul Kremer, Pennsylvania State University: "Sustainability through Product Architecture Optimization: A Graph Partitioning View"
Nov 15 - Yangfeng Ouyang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Nov 22 - Birsen Donmez, University of Toronto
December 6 - Oleg Prokopyev, University of Pittsburgh
January 3 - Victor Richmond R. Jose, Georgetown University
January 31 - Cole Smith, University of Florida
February 7 - Garud Iyengar, Columbia University "An Axiomatic Approach to System Risk"
February 28 - Mark Daskin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor "Nurse Staffing Models and Analysis"
March 7 - Pinar Keskinock, Georgia Institute of Technology "Operations Management Applications in Healthcare"
March 14 - Maria Moyorga, North Carolina State University "A Colorectal Cancer Screening Model Incorporating Patient Choice"
March 28 - Willie Cade, PC Rebuilders and Recyclers
April 4 - Ben Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology
April 11 - Karl Sigman, Columbia University
April 28 - Karim Abdel-Malek, University of Iowa
April 25 - Julie Higle, University of Southern California
May 2 - Brian Denton, University of Michigan Ann Arbor