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Transportation Logistics Researchers
Natalie K. Becknell
![Natalie K. Becknell](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Becknell_Natalie.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- Infrastructure
- transport logistics
Andrew F. Braham
![Andrew F. Braham](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Braham_Andrew.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- Asphalt emulsion
- Pavement maintenance and rehabilitation
- Sustainability
Justin Chimka
![Justin Chimka](/_resources/images/engr_research/transport_logistics_researchers/chimka_justin.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Applied Regression Analysis
- Statistical Quality Control
Burak Eksioglu
![Burak Eksioglu](/_resources/images/engr_research/transport_logistics_researchers/eksioglu_burak.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Resource allocation for healthcare problems
- Supply chain management
- Logistics and transportation
- Stochastic optimization
Sandra Eksioglu
![Sandra Eksioglu](/_resources/images/engr_research/transport_logistics_researchers/eksioglu_sandra.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Energy systems
- Health care
- Transportation systems
Kevin D. Hall
![Kevin D. Hall](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Hall_Kevin.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- Transportation Pavements and Materials
- Pavement Evaluation and Rehabilitation
- Pavement Construction Techniques
- Asphalt Mixture Design and Construction Optimization techniques for pavements and infrastructure management systems
- Distributed Multimedia based Highway Information System (MMHIS)
- Machine vision for automated condition assessment
- Application of intelligent computing, GIS and GPS to transportation management
Sarah Vavrik Hernandez
![Sarah Vavrik Hernandez](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Hernandez_Sarah.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- Transportation systems engineering
- Freight transportation data sources and needs
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Freight travel demand modeling
Haitao Liao
![Haitao Liao](/_resources/images/engr_research/adv_manu_researchers/liao.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Reliability and maintenance modeling
- Statistical models and data analysis
- Applied operations research
- Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA)
- Reliability prediction for electronic components and circuit assemblies using accelerated tests
- Sensor-based fault diagnostics and prognostics for microelectronics, industrial equipment & machinery
- Reliability analysis of nanodevices
- Data-based/model-based warranty/repair demand prediction
- Highly accelerated life test (HALT) and highly environmental stress screening (HESS)
- Data analytics in additive manufacturing
Ashlea Milburn
![>Ashlea Milburn](/_resources/images/engr_research/big_data_analytics_researchers/ashleaMilburn.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Logistics planning problems, especially those arising in health and humanitarian sectors
- Optimization
- Heuristics
Heather Nachtmann
![Heather Nachtmann](/_resources/images/engr_research/big_data_analytics_researchers/heather_Nachtmann.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Transportation systems engineering
- Logistics modeling
- Healthcare supply chain
- Economic decision analysis
Ed Pohl
![Ed Pohl](/_resources/images/engr_research/big_data_analytics_researchers/epohl.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Reliability and Maintenance Modeling
- Healthcare Logistics
- Decision and Risk Analysis
- Engineering Optimization
- Probabilistic Design
- Systems Engineering
Chase E. Rainwater
![Chase E. Rainwater](/_resources/images/engr_research/adv_manu_researchers/rainwater.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Large-scale optimization
- Integer programming
- Supply chain logistics
Manuel D. Rossetti
![Manuel D. Rossetti](/_resources/images/engr_research/big_data_analytics_researchers/rossetti.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Design, analysis, and optimization of logistics
- Manufacturing
- Health care
- Transportation systems using computer simulation and operations research techniques
Tom Spicer
![Tom Spicer](/_resources/images/engr_research/cheg-researchers/TomSpicer.jpg)
Chemical Engineering
Kelly Sullivan
![Kelly Sullivan](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Sullivan_Kelly.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Network Optimization
- Integer Programming
- Optimization in Reliability
- Defense Applications
- Homeland Security Applications
Stacy Goad Williams
![Stacy Goad Williams](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Williams_Stacy.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- Pavement materials
- Testing methods
- Pavement surface characteristics