Industrial Engineering & Management
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- Professor
- Industrial Engineering & Management
- ProfessorIndustrial Engineering & Management
I received my Ph.D in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2007 and my B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras in 2002. I am primarily interested in solving combinatorial optimization problems modeled on networks and applications of integer programming. This has led me into diverse domains including computational biology, social network analysis, and graph-based data mining, as well as classical areas of operations research like transportation logistics, production-inventory planning, and scheduling.
My research has been sponsored by National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research, and industry partners. Publications coauthored with my students and other collaborators have appeared in Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS Journal on Optimization, and INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, among others. I serve on the editorial boards of Networks (Wiley) and Journal of Global Optimization (Springer).
Research Interests:- Graph-powered Analytics
- Optimization Applications
I received my Ph.D in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2007 and my B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras in 2002. I am primarily interested in solving combinatorial optimization problems modeled on networks and applications of integer programming. This has led me into diverse domains including computational biology, social network analysis, and graph-based data mining, as well as classical areas of operations research like transportation logistics, production-inventory planning, and scheduling.
My research has been sponsored by National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research, and industry partners. Publications coauthored with my students and other collaborators have appeared in Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS Journal on Optimization, and INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, among others. I serve on the editorial boards of Networks (Wiley) and Journal of Global Optimization (Springer).
Research Interests:- Graph-powered Analytics
- Optimization Applications
- Faculty/Staff
- Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
- Collaborative projects
- Industry projects
- Industrial Engineering & Management
Fields of Research- Operations research
- Optimisation
- Data structures and algorithms
- Applied mathematics
- Biological network analysis
- Bioinformatics and computational biology
- Graph, social and multimedia data
- Professor
- Industrial Engineering & Management
- ProfessorIndustrial Engineering & Management
Linkan Bian is Professor and Head, and Donald & Cathey Humphreys Chair of the School of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) at Oklahoma State University. Prior to joining OSU, he served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, where he founded and led the Advanced Manufacturing, Design, and Operations (AMDO) program and managed a large national research portfolio. He was previously the Thomas B. & Terri L. Nusz Endowed Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Mississippi State University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and has held multiple leadership roles within the professional community.
Dr. Bian’s research focuses on the development of data‑ and physics‑integrated methods for advanced manufacturing and engineering systems. His interests include: (1) Process–structure–property–performance modeling in manufacturing systems, (2) Data‑enabled and AI‑assisted manufacturing and quality engineering, (3) Uncertainty quantification, reliability, and robust design, (4) In‑situ monitoring, sensing, and control of manufacturing processes, (5) Additive and advanced manufacturing technologies, (6) Systems integration across design, manufacturing, and operations. His work aims to advance fundamental understanding while enabling practical, scalable solutions for modern manufacturing and industrial systems.
Linkan Bian is Professor and Head, and Donald & Cathey Humphreys Chair of the School of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) at Oklahoma State University. Prior to joining OSU, he served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, where he founded and led the Advanced Manufacturing, Design, and Operations (AMDO) program and managed a large national research portfolio. He was previously the Thomas B. & Terri L. Nusz Endowed Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Mississippi State University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and has held multiple leadership roles within the professional community.
Dr. Bian’s research focuses on the development of data‑ and physics‑integrated methods for advanced manufacturing and engineering systems. His interests include: (1) Process–structure–property–performance modeling in manufacturing systems, (2) Data‑enabled and AI‑assisted manufacturing and quality engineering, (3) Uncertainty quantification, reliability, and robust design, (4) In‑situ monitoring, sensing, and control of manufacturing processes, (5) Additive and advanced manufacturing technologies, (6) Systems integration across design, manufacturing, and operations. His work aims to advance fundamental understanding while enabling practical, scalable solutions for modern manufacturing and industrial systems.
- Faculty/Staff
- Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
- Industrial Engineering & Management
Fields of Research- Additive manufacturing
- Manufacturing engineering
- Cyberphysical systems and internet of things
- Artificial intelligence
- Associate Professor
- Industrial Engineering & Management
- Associate ProfessorIndustrial Engineering & Management
Austin Buchanan is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management at Oklahoma State University. He holds a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Texas A&M University. His research focuses on solving combinatorial optimization problems in networks, particularly those having connectivity or distance constraints, with applications in political redistricting. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journals Networks and Optimization Letters. Previously, he served as a Member of Council for the INFORMS Section on Telecommunications & Network Analytics, as Vice Chair for Network Optimization in the INFORMS Optimization Society (IOS), and as the IOS Representative on the INFORMS Subdivisions Council. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation (including an NSF CAREER award), and his papers have appeared in the journals Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Programming Computation, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and Networks, among others.Austin Buchanan is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management at Oklahoma State University. He holds a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Texas A&M University. His research focuses on solving combinatorial optimization problems in networks, particularly those having connectivity or distance constraints, with applications in political redistricting. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journals Networks and Optimization Letters. Previously, he served as a Member of Council for the INFORMS Section on Telecommunications & Network Analytics, as Vice Chair for Network Optimization in the INFORMS Optimization Society (IOS), and as the IOS Representative on the INFORMS Subdivisions Council. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation (including an NSF CAREER award), and his papers have appeared in the journals Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Programming Computation, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and Networks, among others.- Faculty/Staff
- Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
- Industrial Engineering & Management
Fields of Research- Operations research
- Assistant Professor
- Industrial Engineering & Management
- Assistant ProfessorIndustrial Engineering & Management
Industrial Data Analytics, Data Sciences, Reliability, Maintenance, Quality, Monitoring, Process Control, Stochastic Modeling, Artificial IntelligenceIndustrial Data Analytics, Data Sciences, Reliability, Maintenance, Quality, Monitoring, Process Control, Stochastic Modeling, Artificial Intelligence- Faculty/Staff
- Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
- Collaborative projects
- Industry projects
- Masters or PhD research supervision
- English
- Hindi
- Industrial Engineering & Management
Fields of Research- Process control and simulation
- Cyberphysical systems and internet of things
- Stochastic analysis and modelling
- Machine learning
- Artificial intelligence
- Quality management
- Data engineering and data science
- Deep learning
- Neural networks
- Regents Professor and Donald and Cathey Humphreys Chair
- Industrial Engineering & Management
- Regents Professor and Donald and Cathey Humphreys ChairIndustrial Engineering & Management
Sunderesh S. Heragu is a Regents Professor and the Ken and Lynn Case Chair at Oklahoma State University (OSU). A nationally recognized leader in industrial and systems engineering, he previously served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in OSU’s College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology and as Head of the School of Industrial Engineering and Management, where he held the Hendrix and Humphreys Chairs.
Before joining OSU, Dr. Heragu was the Mary Lee and George F. Duthie Chair in Engineering Logistics at the University of Louisville and Director of its Logistics and Distribution Institute. He has also held faculty appointments at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and SUNY Plattsburgh, along with visiting appointments at SUNY Buffalo, Eindhoven University of Technology, the University of Twente, and IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Dr. Heragu is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and the World Academy of Productivity Science. He is the first person to receive IISE’s three highest career honors in education, research, and service: the Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award, the David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, and the Fred C. Crane Distinguished Service Award. His additional honors include induction into the Oklahoma Higher Education Heritage Society Hall of Fame in 2025, the Material Handling Institute’s Reed-Apple Award for lifetime achievement, the Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering, and multiple IISE Transactions awards.
An immediate past president of IISE, Dr. Heragu has also served as an ABET Commissioner and program evaluator; chair of the Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads and the IISE Council of Fellows; Senior Vice President for Publications and a member of IISE’s Board of Trustees. He has contributed to numerous scholarly journals through editorial-board service and is a senior member of IEEE, INFORMS, and POMS.
His research focuses on supply chains, logistics, facilities design, healthcare and emergency-response systems, warehouse automation, material handling, and data-informed operational decision-making. His work applies deterministic and stochastic optimization, simulation, and knowledge-based methods to challenges in facility location and layout, material-flow networks, order picking, scheduling, cellular manufacturing, RFID-enabled logistics, and advanced supply-chain systems. Dr. Heragu has led or co-led more than $27 million in sponsored research, including major projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, Defense Logistics Agency, and industry partners.
He is the author of Facilities Design, now in its fifth edition, and has authored or co-authored nearly 250 publications across journals, books, magazines, and conference proceedings.
Sunderesh S. Heragu is a Regents Professor and the Ken and Lynn Case Chair at Oklahoma State University (OSU). A nationally recognized leader in industrial and systems engineering, he previously served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in OSU’s College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology and as Head of the School of Industrial Engineering and Management, where he held the Hendrix and Humphreys Chairs.
Before joining OSU, Dr. Heragu was the Mary Lee and George F. Duthie Chair in Engineering Logistics at the University of Louisville and Director of its Logistics and Distribution Institute. He has also held faculty appointments at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and SUNY Plattsburgh, along with visiting appointments at SUNY Buffalo, Eindhoven University of Technology, the University of Twente, and IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Dr. Heragu is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and the World Academy of Productivity Science. He is the first person to receive IISE’s three highest career honors in education, research, and service: the Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award, the David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, and the Fred C. Crane Distinguished Service Award. His additional honors include induction into the Oklahoma Higher Education Heritage Society Hall of Fame in 2025, the Material Handling Institute’s Reed-Apple Award for lifetime achievement, the Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering, and multiple IISE Transactions awards.
An immediate past president of IISE, Dr. Heragu has also served as an ABET Commissioner and program evaluator; chair of the Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads and the IISE Council of Fellows; Senior Vice President for Publications and a member of IISE’s Board of Trustees. He has contributed to numerous scholarly journals through editorial-board service and is a senior member of IEEE, INFORMS, and POMS.
His research focuses on supply chains, logistics, facilities design, healthcare and emergency-response systems, warehouse automation, material handling, and data-informed operational decision-making. His work applies deterministic and stochastic optimization, simulation, and knowledge-based methods to challenges in facility location and layout, material-flow networks, order picking, scheduling, cellular manufacturing, RFID-enabled logistics, and advanced supply-chain systems. Dr. Heragu has led or co-led more than $27 million in sponsored research, including major projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, Defense Logistics Agency, and industry partners.
He is the author of Facilities Design, now in its fifth edition, and has authored or co-authored nearly 250 publications across journals, books, magazines, and conference proceedings.
- Faculty/Staff
- Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
- Tamil
- Kannada
- Industrial Engineering & Management
Fields of Research- Transportation, logistics and supply chains
- Optimisation
- Stochastic analysis and modelling
- Flexible manufacturing systems
- Associate Professor
- Industrial Engineering & Management
- Associate ProfessorIndustrial Engineering & Management
I am an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University, where I direct the Human-Systems Engineering and Applied Statistics (HSEAS) Lab. I am originally from South Carolina, and moved to Oklahoma as an Assistant Professor in 2020. I earned my BS, MS, and PhD in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University, where my doctoral research focused on quantifying human behavior in embodied human-computer systems using Bayesian statistical methods. My research spans human factors engineering, applied statistics, neuroergonomics, cognitive engineering, psychophysiology, and human-automation interaction, with applications in healthcare, aerospace, and defense. I use neurophysiological (EEG, fNIRS) and psychophysiological (heart rate, pupillometry) measures to study cognitive constructs such as workload, situational awareness, trust, and decision making in complex environments. My work also extends to distributed and shared cognition across human teams and human-AI teams.
I am an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University, where I direct the Human-Systems Engineering and Applied Statistics (HSEAS) Lab. I am originally from South Carolina, and moved to Oklahoma as an Assistant Professor in 2020. I earned my BS, MS, and PhD in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University, where my doctoral research focused on quantifying human behavior in embodied human-computer systems using Bayesian statistical methods. My research spans human factors engineering, applied statistics, neuroergonomics, cognitive engineering, psychophysiology, and human-automation interaction, with applications in healthcare, aerospace, and defense. I use neurophysiological (EEG, fNIRS) and psychophysiological (heart rate, pupillometry) measures to study cognitive constructs such as workload, situational awareness, trust, and decision making in complex environments. My work also extends to distributed and shared cognition across human teams and human-AI teams.
- Faculty/Staff
- Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
- Industrial Engineering & Management
Fields of Research- AI-Human Collaboration
- Human-computer interaction
- Human-centred computing
- Neurosciences
- Health systems
- Health informatics and information systems
- Industrial engineering
- Statistical data science
- Professor
- Industrial Engineering & Management
- ProfessorIndustrial Engineering & Management
Tieming Liu is a professor and the graduate program director at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University. His research interests include healthcare analytics, supply chain coordination, revenue management, logistics planning, manufacturing scheduling, and resource flexibility planning. He has published more than 30 papers in highly respected journals, including Production and Operations Management, Decision Support Systems, Service Science, IISE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, Interfaces, Operations Research Letters, and European Journal of Operational Research. He received his doctoral degree in Transportation and Logistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, his master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University in 2001, and his master's and bachelor's degrees in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2000 and 1997, respectively.
Research Interests:
Healthcare Analytics, Supply Chain Coordination, Revenue Management, Logistics Planning, Manufacturing Scheduling, and Resource Flexibility Planning.Tieming Liu is a professor and the graduate program director at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University. His research interests include healthcare analytics, supply chain coordination, revenue management, logistics planning, manufacturing scheduling, and resource flexibility planning. He has published more than 30 papers in highly respected journals, including Production and Operations Management, Decision Support Systems, Service Science, IISE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, Interfaces, Operations Research Letters, and European Journal of Operational Research. He received his doctoral degree in Transportation and Logistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, his master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University in 2001, and his master's and bachelor's degrees in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2000 and 1997, respectively.
Research Interests:
Healthcare Analytics, Supply Chain Coordination, Revenue Management, Logistics Planning, Manufacturing Scheduling, and Resource Flexibility Planning.- Faculty/Staff
- Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
- Industrial Engineering & Management
Fields of Research- Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
- Applied mathematics
- Business and management
- Commerce, management, tourism and services
- Information and computing sciences
- Mathematical sciences
- Assistant Professor
- Industrial Engineering & Management
- Assistant ProfessorIndustrial Engineering & Management
I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management, and the Director of the Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering (NeCE) Lab. The NeCE is focused on understanding neural, physiological, and behavioral mechanisms underlying human-system interactions, and using that knowledge to inform the design, development, and assessment of cyber-physical systems with the goal of enhancing productivity, safety, and health.
Areas of application include aviation, health care, surface transportation, energy, and military systems.
Research Interests:
-Explainable Artificial Intelligence
-Information Visualization
-Healthcare Systems Engineering
-Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems
-Decision Support Systems
-Human Factors Issues in Augmented and Virtual Reality
-Simulation-Based Training
-Human Performance MeasurementI am an Assistant Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management, and the Director of the Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering (NeCE) Lab. The NeCE is focused on understanding neural, physiological, and behavioral mechanisms underlying human-system interactions, and using that knowledge to inform the design, development, and assessment of cyber-physical systems with the goal of enhancing productivity, safety, and health.
Areas of application include aviation, health care, surface transportation, energy, and military systems.
Research Interests:
-Explainable Artificial Intelligence
-Information Visualization
-Healthcare Systems Engineering
-Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems
-Decision Support Systems
-Human Factors Issues in Augmented and Virtual Reality
-Simulation-Based Training
-Human Performance Measurement- Faculty/Staff
- Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
- Industrial Engineering & Management
Fields of Research- Clinical sciences
- Assistant Professor
- Industrial Engineering & Management
- Assistant ProfessorIndustrial Engineering & Management
Dr. Pratima Saravanan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University. She held concurrent appointments as a Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Health Data Science and Analytics at the Houston Methodist Hospital (2021-2023) and as a Lecturer at Wm Michael Barnes '64 Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University (2022-2023). Dr. Saravanan received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering with a focus on Human Factors at The Pennsylvania State University in 2021. She earned master's degrees in Industrial Engineering (2020) and Bioengineering (2018) at The Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering (2015) from PSG College of Technology, India. Dr. Saravanan's research interests include cognitive sciences, human factors in healthcare, and clinical decision-making.
Research Interests:
Human factors and ergonomics
Cognitive performance
Healthcare Systems Engineering
Naturalistic decision making
Simulation-based training and assessment
Expert-novice differences
Skill acquisition
Mental workloadDr. Pratima Saravanan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University. She held concurrent appointments as a Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Health Data Science and Analytics at the Houston Methodist Hospital (2021-2023) and as a Lecturer at Wm Michael Barnes '64 Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University (2022-2023). Dr. Saravanan received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering with a focus on Human Factors at The Pennsylvania State University in 2021. She earned master's degrees in Industrial Engineering (2020) and Bioengineering (2018) at The Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering (2015) from PSG College of Technology, India. Dr. Saravanan's research interests include cognitive sciences, human factors in healthcare, and clinical decision-making.
Research Interests:
Human factors and ergonomics
Cognitive performance
Healthcare Systems Engineering
Naturalistic decision making
Simulation-based training and assessment
Expert-novice differences
Skill acquisition
Mental workload- Faculty/Staff
- Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
- English
- Tamil
- Industrial Engineering & Management
Fields of Research- Cognition
- Industrial engineering
- Digital health
- Health and community services
- Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy
- Health systems