Ahmed Ghoniem

Assistant Professor

Telephone: 413-545-3927

Email: Email: aghoniem@som.umass.edu

Office: SOM 317

Web Site: ahmed.ghoniem.info

Education:

Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Virginia Tech, 2007
M.S., Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Virginia Tech, 2003
M.S., Operations Management in Production and Logistics, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France, 2002

Research/Teaching Interests:

Large-scale optimization in logistics
Machine, airline and sports scheduling
Nonconvex optimization
Deterministic Models in Management Science
Integer Programming
Supply Chain Management

Publications/Presentations:

Sherali, H. D. and Ghoniem, A. (2008), Joint vehicle assembly-routing problems: An integrated modeling and optimization approach, Networks. URL: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121431467/PDFSTART.

Ghoniem, A. and Sherali, H. D. (2008), Complementary column generation and bounding approaches for set partitioning formulations, Optimization Letters. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11590-008-0097-2.

Symmetry compatible formulations via objective perturbations and hierarchical constraints (with H. D. Sherali), INFORMS, Washington D.C., October 2008.

Dynamic variation reduction technique in assembly lines after batch inspection (with R. Musa and F.F. Chen), IERC, Orlando, FL, May 2006.

Professional/Academic Activities:

Postdoctoral Associate at the ISE Department, Virginia Tech, 2007-2008.

Participant in the Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., October 2008.

Talk on "Joint vehicle assembly-routing problems: an integrated modeling and optimization approach", OR/MS Seminar Series, UMass, Amherst, October 2008.