Principal Investigator: Dr. Wei (Mike) Li
Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Adaptive Production Scheduling and Control, Simulation and Optimization in Healthcare Systems, Operations Research, Operations Management, Manufacturing Systems
University of Kentucky, College of Engineering
Mechanical Engineering – ME
414J RMB
Lexington, KY 40506-0108
Phone: 859-257-4842
Fax: 859-257-3304
Email: wei.mike.li@uky.edu
Jingjing You
Tentative Thesis Title: Steady-State of Trade-off Balancing
Education
B.S.E. 2011, Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Medical University, China.
Research interests
Optimization, Healthcare systems scheduling, Sustainable production, Flowshop scheduling.
Email: jingjing.you@uky.edu
Mian M.K Shah
Tentative Thesis Title: Research the importance of Control Systems in Sustainable Manufacturing
Education
B.S.E. 2002, Mechanical Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar, Pak.
B.S.E. 2012, Technology Management, Morehead State University Morehead, KY
Research interests
Control Systems, Sustainable Manufacturing, The Internet of Things, Lean Manufacturing.
Email: mian.shah@uky.edu
Amin Abedini
Dissertation Title: Trade-off Balancing for Stable and Sustainable Operating Room Scheduling
Education
M.S.E. 2012, Mechanical Engineering, Urmia University, Iran.
B.S.E. 2010, Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran.
Research interests
Robust Optimization, Resource allocation, Operating room scheduling, Material processing, 3D printing for drug delivery.
Feidi Dang
Education
M.S.E. 2017, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, USA.
B.S.E. 2014, Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, China.
Thesis title: An efficient heuristic to balance trade-offs between utilization and patient flowtime in operating room management.
Research interests
Simulation, Optimization, Operation research, Flowshop scheduling
Vivek Reddy Gunna
Vivek joined Sustainable Operation Management (SOM) Lab in August 2015 pursuing his MSc.
Education
M.S.E. 2017, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, USA.
B.S.E. 2015, Mechanical Engineering, Jawaharlal Technological University Hyderabad, India.
Thesis title: Adaptive multi-objective operating room planning with stochastic demand ans case times.
Research Interests
Portfolio selection, Sustainable production, Operation management.
Honghan Ye
Education
M.S.E. 2017, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, USA.
B.S.E. 2015, Precision Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, China.
Thesis title:Adaptive scheduling for Operating Room Management
Research interests
Flowshop scheduling, Manufacturing systems, Healthcare systems scheduling, Heuristics design, Pareto optimization.
Xinwei Pan
Thesis Title: Forecasting the workload with hybrid model to reduce the inefficiency cost.
Education
M.S.E. 2017, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, USA
B.S.E. 2013. Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China.
Research interests
Heuristic Design, Forecasting, Optimization