Industrial Engineering Ph.D. Graduates of Northeastern University

• Mehmet Erkan Ceyhan ,
• 2010 . Proportional Estimates and Longitudinal Targets in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).
• Advisor: Professor Benneyan
• Whereabouts: Northeastern University, U.S.A.

• Aysegul Topcu ,
• 2009 . A Heuristic Approach Based on Golden Section Simulation-Optimization for Reconfigurable Remanufacturing Inventory Space Planning.
• Advisors: Professor Cullinane and Professor Benneyan
• Whereabouts: Northeastern University, U.S.A.

• Chenhua Li ,
• 2009 . Optimal Step-Stress Plans for Accelerated Life Testing Considering Reliability/Life Prediction.
• Advisor: Professor Fard
• Whereabouts: Northeastern University, U.S.A.

• Aysun Sunnetci ,
• 2008 . Handling Proportional Data and Constraining Weight Decision Variables in Data Envelopment Analysis.
• Advisor: Professor Benneyan
• Whereabouts: FM Global, Norwood, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

• Gun Udomsawat ,
• 2008 . Multi-Kanban Modeling for Disassembly.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: USPS Processing and Distribution Center, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.

• Nilgun Fescioglu Unver ,
• 2008 . Self-Controlling Tabu Search.
• Advisor: Professor Kokar
• Whereabouts: TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey.

• Prasit Imtanavanich ,
• 2007 . Disassembly-To-Order System.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: Optiant, Inc., Bulington, MA, U.S.A.

• Srikanth Vadde ,
• 2007 . Pricing and Disposal Decision Models for Product Recovery Facilities.
• Advisors: Professor Kamarthi and Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: Carnival Cruise Lines, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

• Satish Nukala ,
• 2007 . Multi-Criteria Decision Making Models for Strategic Planning of Closed-Loop Supply Chains.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: Halliburton Energy Services, Houston, TX, U.S.A.

• Zheng Maria Wang ,
• 2006 . Mathematical Modeling and Optimization of Sink Mobility in a Wireless Sensor Network.
• Advisor: Professor Melachrinoudis
• Whereabouts: General Dynamics.

• Jose Antonio Santivanez ,
• 2006 . The Reliable 1-Center of a Network.
• Advisor: Professor Melachrinoudis
• Whereabouts: University of Turabo, Puerto Rico.

• Seamus M. McGovern ,
• 2006 . Combinatorial Optimization Treatment of the Unary NP-Complete Disassembly Line Balancing Problem. (winner of the Best Dissertation Award for 2006 from the American Society for Engineering Management)
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: Volpe Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

• Lerpong Jarupan ,
• 2005 . Environmental Conscious Design and Operational Strategies for Returnable Transport Packaging .
• Advisors: Professor Kamarthi and Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.

• Yonet A. Eracar ,
• 2005 . Negotiating Solutions to Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization Problems.
• Advisor: Professor Kokar
• Whereabouts: Northeastern University, U.S.A.

• Kishore K. Pochampally ,
• 2004 . Crucial Issues in Strategic Planning of Reverse and Closed-loop Supply Chains.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: Southern New Hampshire University, U.S.A.

• Caglar S. Aksezer ,
• 2003 . Some Multivariate Optimization and Frontier Estimation Problems.
• Advisor: Professor Benneyan
• Whereabouts: ISIK University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Jennifer Black ,
• 2003 . Models and Metrics for Effective Software Test Suite Minimization and Maintenance.
• Advisors: Professor Melachrinoudis and Professor Kaeli
• Whereabouts: Northeastern University, U.S.A.

• Hasan Kivanc Aksoy ,
• 2003 . Buffer Utilization and Performance Analysis in Remanufacturing Systems.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey.

• Elif Kongar ,
• 2003 . Multiple Criteria Decision Making Techniques for End-Of-Life Product Recovery.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, U.S.A.

• Mohsen D. Ghassemi ,
• 2003 . Design Flexibility Analysis of Object-Oriented Software.
• Advisor: Professor Mourant
• Whereabouts: Northeastern University, U.S.A.

• Aybek Korugan ,
• 2002 . The Effect of Product Substitution on Single-Stage Hybrid Systems with Pull Type Control.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Georgios Konstantinou Kozanidis ,
• 2002 . Optimal Allocation of Resources among Disjoint Sets of Discrete and Continuous Activities.
• Advisor: Professor Melachrinoudis
• Whereabouts: University of Thessaly, Greece.

• Indra Gunawan ,
• 2002 . Reliability Evaluation of Multistage Interconnection Networks.
• Advisor: Professor Fard
• Whereabouts: Monash University, Australia.

• David N. Aurelio ,
• 2002 . The Effects of Web Search Engine Query Ambiguity and Results Sorting Method of User Performance and Preference.
• Advisor: Professor Mourant
• Whereabouts: Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA, U.S.A.

• Talal A. Al-Shihabi ,
• 2002 . Modeling Human-Like Driving Behavior for Autonomous Vehicles in Driving Simulators.
• Advisor: Professor Mourant
• Whereabouts: Northeastern University, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

• Jane E. Boon ,
• 2002 . Economic Viability of U.S. Recycling Infrastructures for End-of-Life Automotive and Electronic Products.
• Advisors: Professor Gupta and Professor Isaacs
• Whereabouts: Catalyst International, Inc.

• Raymond W. T. Mak ,
• 2001 . Flexible Hoist Scheduling for Electronics Manufacturing.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: FedEx, Hong Kong.

• Naken Wongvasu ,
• 2001 . Methodologies for Rapid and Effective Response to Request for Quotation (RFQ) of Mass Customization Products.
• Advisor: Professor Kamarthi
• Whereabouts: Pantavanij, Bangkok, Thailand.

• Beverly K. Jaeger ,
• 2001 . Effect of Sensory Input Level on Cognitive and Motoric Operator Performance in Actual and Computer-Generated Immersive Virtual Environments.
• Advisor: Professor Mourant
• Whereabouts: Northeastern University, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

• Jeffrey E. Smith ,
• 2000 . UML Formalization and Transformation.
• Advisor: Professor Kokar
• Whereabouts: Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., U.S.A.

• Pratap Sriram Sundar ,
• 2000 . Design Methodologies for Agile Production Systems.
• Advisor: Professor Kamarthi
• Whereabouts: Paraform, Santa Clara, CA, U.S.A.

• Askiner Güngör ,
• 1999 . Algorithmic Models for Analysis of Disassembly Processes and Systems.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey.

• Abdul Hannan Chowdhury ,
• 1999 . Analysis of Censored Life Test Data and Robust Design Method for Reliability Improvement from Highly Fractionated Experiments.
• Advisor: Professor Fard
• Whereabouts: Northeastern University, U.S.A.

• Pitipong Veerakamolmal ,
• 1999 . Design and Analysis of Disassembly and Remanufacturing Systems in the Electronics Industry.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: IBM Corporation, U.S.A.

• Kendra Moore ,
• 1998 . Petri-Nets for Disassembly Process Planning and Performance Modeling of Flexible Kanban Systems.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: ALPHATECH Inc., Burlington, MA, U.S.A.

• Tae Han Lee ,
• 1998 . Reliability Improvements, Analysis and Optimization of Computer Communications Networks.
• Advisor: Professor Fard
• Whereabouts: IBM Corporation, U.S.A.

• Hun Hee Lee ,
• 1998 . Evaluation and Design of Reliable Computer Communication Network Systems.
• Advisor: Professor Fard
• Whereabouts: Systemic Research Inc., Dedham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

• Stephen Paul Linder ,
• 1998 . Robust Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Disturbance Rejection and Fault Accommodation.
• Advisor: Professor Shafai
• Whereabouts: Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, U.S.A.

• Zaharias Xanthopulos ,
• 1997 . Stochastic Interactive Multiobjective Optimization with Multiple Decision Makers.
• Advisor: Professor Melachrinoudis
• Whereabouts: IBM Corporation, U.S.A.

• Yung-Joon Lee ,
• 1997 . Adaptive and Artificial-Intelligence-Based Scheduling Methodologies Applied to Dual-Resource Constrained Assembly Systems.
• Advisor: Professor Perry
• Whereabouts: IBM Corporation, U.S.A.

• Leanne Moyer ,
• 1997 . Assembly and Disassembly Models in Electronics Manufacturing.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: IBM Corporation, U.S.A.

• Sibel Tari ,
• 1997 . Shape Representation and Analysis Without Segmentation.
• Advisors: Professor Cipolla and Professor Shah
• Whereabouts: Department of Engineering Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey.

• GuangSheng Zhang ,
• 1996 . Location on Networks with Multiple Criteria.
• Advisor: Professor Melachrinoudis
• Whereabouts: Morgan Stanley, New York, U.S.A.

• Zbigniew Korona ,
• 1996 . Model-Theory Based Feature Selection for Multisensor Recognition.
• Advisor: Professor Kokar
• Whereabouts: Enrolled in the MBA Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

• Fikri Karaesmen ,
• 1996 . Duality for Finite Buffered Queues with Service and Arrival Control.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: Department of Industrial Engineering, Koç University, Sariyer - Istanbul, 80910, Turkey.

• Pan Gu ,
• 1996 . An Intelligent Communication System for Flexible Manufacturing.
• Advisor: Professor Maddox
• Whereabouts: J. P. Morgan, New York, U.S.A.

• Susan Freeman ,
• 1996 . Manufacturing Cell Design: A p-Median Model approach Considering Bottlenecks and Alternate Routings.
• Advisors: Professor Deutsch and Professor Helander
• Whereabouts: Northeastern University, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

• Ayse Kavusturucu ,
• 1996 . Analysis of Manufacturing Systems with Machine Unavailability.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: Turkey.

• Karim Taleb ,
• 1995 . Operational Issues in Disassembly.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: Applied Materials, CA, U.S.A.

• Chuan-Chung Chen ,
• 1995 . Calibration of Computer Vision Systems and Sensitivity Analysis of Cross Ratios for the Implementation of Viewpoint-Independent 2D Object Recognition.
• Advisor: Professor Wang
• Whereabouts: Taiwan.

• John Izuchukwu ,
• 1994 . A Hybrid Quality Control Approach for Minimizing Defect Propagation: With Application to VLSI Systems.
• Advisor: Professor Deutsch
• Whereabouts: Digital Corporation, U.S.A.

• Yousef A. Y. Al-Turki ,
• 1994 . Flexible Kanban System.
• Advisor: Professor Gupta
• Whereabouts: King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

• Dimitrios Karydas ,
• 1990 . A Probabilistic Methodology for the Fire Smoke Hazard Analysis of Electronic Equipment.
• Advisor: Professor Heising
• Whereabouts: Factory Mutual, Norwood, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

• Prapin Abhinorasaeth ,
• 1988 . A Discrete Location Assignment Problem with Congestion.
• Advisor: Professor Melachrinoudis
• Whereabouts: Thailand.

• 2010: 1
• 2009: 2
• 2008: 3
• 2007: 3
• 2006: 3
• 2005: 2
• 2004: 1
• 2003: 5
• 2002: 6
• 2001: 3
• 2000: 2
• 1999: 3
• 1998: 4
• 1997: 4
• 1996: 6
• 1995: 2
• 1994: 2
• 1990: 1
• 1988: 1

Number of Industrial Engineering Ph.D. Graduates by Gender

• Female: 14
• Male: 40

Number of Industrial Engineering Ph.D. Graduates by Country

• Turkey: 13
• U.S.A.: 9
• Thailand: 6
• China: 4
• India: 4
• Greece: 3
• Korea: 3
• Bangladesh: 1
• Canada: 1
• Hong Kong: 1
• Indonesia: 1
• Iran: 1
• Lebenon: 1
• Nigeria: 1
• Peru: 1
• Poland: 1
• Saudi Arabia: 1
• Syria: 1
• Taiwan: 1

Number of Industrial Engineering Ph.D. Graduates by Professor

• Professor Gupta : 20 (one co-advised with Prof. Isaacs and two with Professor Kamarthi )
• Professor Melachrinoudis : 7 (one co-advised with Prof. Kaeli)
• Professor Fard : 5
• Professor Benneyan : 4 (one co-advised with Prof. Cullinane)
• Professor Kamarthi : 4 (two co-advised with Prof. Gupta)
• Professor Kokar : 4
• Professor Mourant : 4
• Professor Deutsch: 2 (one co-advised with Prof. Helander)
• Professor Cipolla / Professor Shah : 1
• Professor Cullinane : 1 (co-advised with Professor Benneyan)
• Professor Heising : 1
• Professor Maddox: 1
• Professor Perry : 1
• Professor Shafai : 1
• Professor Wang : 1