Current students

Graduated students

Current Students

Nazrul Shaikh
Ph.D. Student
M.S. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Penn State University, May 2002
Masters Thesis: “Modeling and intelligent control of cryogenic freezing tunnels”
Email: nazrul@psu.edu

Liya Wang
Ph.D. Student
M.S. System Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University,July 2002
Email: lzw115@psu.edu

Seungyup Baek
Ph.D. Student
M.S. Metallurgical Engineering, Seoul National University , Feb 1995
Masters Thesis: "Changes of Mechanical Properties of Al-Si-Cu-Mg Alloy with Heat Treatment"
Email: sxb945@psu.edu
Url: http://pinetiger@com.ne.kr/

Vamsi K. Salaka
Ph.D. Student – Research area: Advanced IT and Expert Systems
M.S. Industrial Engineering, Penn State University
Email: salaka@psu.edu
Url: www.vamsi.info

Michael Cheng

Ph.D. Student

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Graduated Students

Sohyung Cho
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Penn State University
Thesis: “Unification of Distributed Scheduling and Machine Capacity Control,” December 2000.

Pisut Koomsap
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Penn State University
Thesis: “Intelligent Control of Laser-Based Manufacturing Processes and Systems,” May 2000.

JoonkiHong
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Penn State University
Thesis: “A Heterarchical Shop Floor Control Using Distributed Arrival Time Control and Reinforcement Learning,” May 2001.

Aditya Kaul
M.S. Industrial Engineering, Penn State
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University , August 2002
Email: adityakaul@psu.edu

Jyothi Karthik Raja
M.S. Student
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Penn State University
Email: kart@psu.edu
Url: www.karthik.info

Maneesha Panicker
M.S. Student
Industrial engineering, Penn State University
Masters' Thesis: 'Process and Information Systems in Non Profit and Industrial Organizations', May 2004
Email: mup112@psu.edu

Manoj Kalava
M.S. Industrial Engineering, Penn State University
Thesis: “Complexity Metrics for Manufacturing Enterprise Software” December 1999.

Indraneel Fuke
M.S. Industrial Engineering, Penn State University
Thesis: “Intelligent Automation of Electron Beam Physical Vapor Deposition,” May 2000.

AshishSharma
M.S. Industrial Engineering, Penn State University
Thesis: “Quality of service models for computing and communication performance in manufacturing control systems”, Aug 2001.

JagrutPatel
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Penn State University
Thesis: "Reconfigurable supercomputers for scalable enterprise automation”, December 2001.
http://www.vigicomm.com

Chigullapalli Srinath
M.S. Industrial Engineering, Penn State University
Thesis: “Condition-based real-time procurement control in semiconductor supply chains”, December 2001.

Satish Surapaneni
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Penn State University
Thesis: “System-on-a-chip compiler for industrial automation”, December 2001.

Smita Mahalati
M.S. Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Thesis: “Loosely Synchronous Distributed Simulation Using SMP, VIA Cluster And Distributed Clusters,” August 2002.

Sumeet Suri
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Penn State University
Thesis: “Reconfigurable Supercomputing Platform for Embedded Control and Decision Making in Manufacturing Enterprises using Distributed Simulations”, August 2002.
He is the CEO and Founder of VigiComm, Inc., a company specializing in real-time emergency communication.

Areejit Phukan
M.S. Industrial Engineering and Operation Research, Penn State University
Thesis: “Algorithms and information technology strategies for transportation decision making in supply chains,” December 2002.

RushabhMehta
M.S. Industrial Engineering, Penn State University
Thesis: “Software Modeling Tool For Analysis Of Manufacturing And Supply Networks,” December 2003.
Email: ram346@psu.edu

Atul Pandey
M.S. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Penn State University
Thesis: “High Performance Computing for Integrated Optimization of Manufacturing Enterprises,” December 2003.
Email: agp118@psu.edu

Sanju Mathew
M.S. Industrial Engineering, Penn State University
Thesis: “Quantitative Cost Models and Tools for Enterprise Integration,” December 2003.
Email: sxm442@psu.edu

Mahesh Kiwalkar
Design Engineer, Pyramid Communications, Huntington Beach, California
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Penn State University, May 2004
Masters Thesis: "Wireless Networks for Embedded Supercomputers in Manufacturing Enterprises"
Email: mkk152@psu.edu

Muthu Somasundaram
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Penn State University, Dec 2003
Master's Thesis: "UWB Systems: Analysis of Pulse Time Spread ALOHA in Distributed Wireless Communication Systems"
Email: mus127@psu.edu
URL: www.personal.psu.edu/mus127
Employed at: iGATE Corp. CA

Ruhiyyih Mahalati
M.S. Computer Networking, North Carolina State University
Master's Thesis: "Reconfiguration Of Sub-Wavelength Groomed Wavelength Routed Optical Networks"
Email: ruhiyyih@rediffmail.com

Shamit Patel
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
Email: svp11@psu.edu