Dr. Theodore B. Trafalis
Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering of the University of Oklahoma
Director of the Laboratory of Optimization and Intelligent Systems
Address
Dr. Theodore B. Trafalis
School of Industrial Engineering
The University of Oklahoma
202 West Boyd room 124
Norman OK 73019-0631, USA
Phones: 1-405-325-4347 (voice), 1-405-325-7555 (fax)
E-mail: ttrafalis@ou.edu
Academic Career
Dr. Theodore B. Trafalis is a Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He earned his BS in mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece, his MS in Applied Mathematics, MSIE, and PhD in Operations Research from Purdue University. He is a member of ORSA, SIAM, Hellenic Operational Society, International Society of Multiple criteria Decision Making, and the International Society of Neural Networks. His is listed in the 1993/1994 edition of Who’s Who in the World. He was a visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University (1989-1990), an invited Research Fellow at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (1996), and a visiting Associate Professor at Blaise Pascal University, France and at the Technical University of Crete (1998). He was also an invited visiting Associate Professor at Akita Prefectural University, Japan (2001).
Teaching/Research Interests
Dr. Trafalis teaches courses in the areas of optimization and operations research. At the graduate level, he teaches courses in advanced nonlinear programming, multi-criteria optimization, engineering optimization, integer programming, optimization of neural networks, interior point methods and data mining. His research interests include: operations research/management science, mathematical programming, interior point methods, multi-objective optimization, control theory, computational and algebraic geometry, artificial neural networks, kernel methods, evolutionary programming and global optimization. He has published more than sixty articles in journals, conference proceedings, edited books, and made over one hundred technical presentations. He has served and currently serves as a PI on four grants from the National Science Foundation and one from NOAA, National Weather Service. He has developed one laboratory within the department for research in optimization and intelligent systems.
Significant Citations
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S. Abe, Support vector machines for pattern classification, Springer, 2005.
@BOOK{Abe2005, title = {Support vector machines for pattern classification},
publisher = {Springer},
year = {2005},
author = {S. Abe},
url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/133156232}
} -
J. Si, Handbook of learning and approximate dynamic programming, Wiley, 2004.
@BOOK{Si2004, title = {Handbook of learning and approximate dynamic programming},
publisher = {Wiley},
year = {2004},
author = {J. Si},
url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56416804}
} -
B. Schölkopf and A. J. Smola, Learning with kernels: support vector machines, regularization, optimization, and beyond, MIT Press, 2002.
@BOOK{Scholkopf2002, title = {Learning with kernels: support vector machines, regularization, optimization, and beyond},
publisher = {MIT Press},
year = {2002},
author = {B. Schölkopf and A. J. Smola},
url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48970254}
} -
F. W. Glover and M. Laguna, Tabu Search, Springer, 1997.
@BOOK{Glover1997a, title = {Tabu Search},
publisher = {Springer},
year = {1997},
author = {F.W. Glover and M. Laguna},
pages = {295},
url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37157732}
} -
Y. Ye, Interior point algorithms: theory and analysis, Wiley, 1997.
@BOOK{Ye1997, title = {Interior point algorithms: theory and analysis},
publisher = {Wiley},
year = {1997},
author = {Y. Ye},
url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36746523}
} -
F. W. Glover, "Tabu search and adaptive memory programing – Advances, applications and challenges." Springer, 1997.
@INCOLLECTION{Glover1997,
author = {F. W. Glover},
title = {Tabu search and adaptive memory programing - Advances, applications and challenges},
booktitle = {Interfaces in computer science and operations research: advances in metaheuristics, optimization, and stochastic modeling technologies},
publisher = {Springer},
year = {1997},
url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35792380}
} -
D. den Hertog, Interior point approach to linear, quadratic, and convex programming: algorithms and complexity, Springer, 1994.
@BOOK{Hertog1994, title = {Interior point approach to linear, quadratic, and convex programming: algorithms and complexity},
publisher = {Springer},
year = {1994},
author = {D. den Hertog},
url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29703218}
} -
P. J. Werbos, "Neuroengineering program referring to open questions and research related to supervised learning," in World Congress on Neural Networks, Hillsdale, N.J., 1993, p. 359.
@INPROCEEDINGS{Werbos1993,
author = {P. J. Werbos},
title = {Neuroengineering program referring to open questions and research related to supervised learning},
booktitle = {World Congress on Neural Networks},
year = {1993},
volume = {3},
pages = {359},
address = {Hillsdale, N.J.},
month = {July 11-15},
organization = {International Neural Network Society},
publisher = {Erlbaum},
url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123709358}
}
Book Reviews
- J. A. Freeman and D. M. Skapura. Neural Networks: Algorithms, Applications and Programming Techniques, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1992. (Review published in Journal of Information Systems and Operational Research, pages 279-289, November 1995).
OU Student Advising
Advised 36 undergraduate seniors and several freshmen each semester while serving on undergraduate committee.
Advised 25 graduate students each semester while serving on graduate committee.
Ph.D. and M.S. Committees
Have served on more than 50 Ph.D. and M.S. committees.
Design Project Faculty Advisor for Graduating Seniors
GM, Macklanburg Duncan, Academic Computing, Oklahoma Natural Gas, AT&T, Seagate, Unit Parts, UPONOR, COMP ONE, Astellas Pharma Technologies, Inc.