FACULTY AND STUDENTS

The Keck Virtual Factory Lab is designed to be open to involvement by a broad range of faculty and students interested in the design, operation, control, modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems. This page lists those faculty and students who have been directly involved.

Faculty

• Dr. Leon F. McGinnis, project director
• Dr. Ron Billings
• Dr. Douglas Bodner
• Dr. Jane C. Ammons
• Dr. Marc Goetschalckx
• Dr. T. Govindaraj
• Dr. Paul Griffin
• Dr. Spyros Reveliotis
• Dr. Gunter Sharp
• Dr. Chen Zhou

Ph.D. Students

• Jinxiang Gu
• Andy Johnson
• Margarit Khachatryan
• Nan Li
• Ralph Mueller
• Dima Nazzal
• Tolga Tezcan
• Lei Tian
• Yen-Tai Wan
• Ke Wang
• Ying Wang
• Sheng Xu

Masters Students

• No current masters students

Visitors

• No current visitors

Ph.D. Alumni/Alumnae

• Jin Young Choi (PhD '04). Dissertation: Performance Modeling, Analysis and Control of Capacitated
  Re-entrant Lines. Advisor: Prof. Spyros Reveliotis.
• Hansoo Kim (PhD '04). Dissertation: Reference Model Based High Fidelity Simulation Modeling for Manufacturing Systems. Advisor: Prof. Chen Zhou.
• SugJe Sohn (PhD '04). Dissertation: Modeling and Analysis of Production and Capacity Planning Considering Profits, Throughputs, Cycle Times, and Investment. Advisors: Prof. Chen Zhou and Prof. Shabbir Ahmed. Intel
• Wen-Chih Chen (PhD '03). Dissertation: Integrating Approaches to Efficiency and Productivity Measurement. Advisor: Prof. Leon McGinnis. National Chiao Tung University
• Jonghun Park (PhD '00). Dissertation: Structural Analysis and Control of Reseource Allocation Systems Using Petri Nets. Advisor: Prof. Spyros Reveliotis. Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
• Michael Albritton (PhD '99). Dissertation: Optimal Finite Capacity Production Scheduling with Random Demand. Advisor: Prof. Mark Spearman.

Thesis Masters Alumni/Alumnae

• Natalie Zerangue (MSIE '01). Thesis: Modeling Expertise in the Design of Warehousing and Distribution Systems. Advisors: Prof. T. Govindaraj and Dr. Douglas A. Bodner. Avaya

Masters Alumni/Alumnae

• Mrunal Salunkhe (MSIE '03) Schneider Logistics
• Karthik Karathur (MSIE '03)
• Uanny Brens (MSIE '03) Texas A&M graduate school
• Seymen Alkara (MSIE '02)
• Preeti Desai (MSIE '02) Avery Dennison
• Joel McGinnis (MSIDT '02) TRW
• Mark Insalaco (MSIE '00) Intel
• Kimberly Roberts (MSOR '00)
• Jenn-Fong Wu (MSIE '00) Applied Materials
• Andrew McLaughlin (MSM '98, MSME '98) U.S. Army
• Deborah Prigal (MSOR '98) Federal Aviation Administration
• Jason Tenorio (MSIE '98) General Motors
• Scott Casmer (MSIE '97) Hewlett-Packard
• Matthew Damrau (MSIE '97) Bailey Computing Technologies
• Joanna Shear (MSIE '97) Intel
• Sarah Citrin (MSIE '96) Lucent Technologies

Faculty Alumni

• Dr. Mark Spearman

Past Visitors

• Dr. Jae-Gon Kim, visiting scholar from SCM Group, LG CNS Co., Ltd.
  Consulting SSU, South Korea (Fall 2002)
• Hyun-Joong Yoon (visiting Ph.D. student from Korea Institute of Science
  and Technology, spring 2001)
• Martez Edwards (visiting from Lane College during Summer 2001)
• Dr. Biqing Huang (visiting faculty from Tsinghua University, P.R. China, 2000)