Dr. Ismael Regis de Farias JR
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
Education
B.Sc. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1984
M.Sc. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1990
Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995
Recent Publications
M. Zhao and I.R. de Farias JR., "A Note on the Continuous Mixing Set," Operations Research Letters 36, 726-733 (2008).
M. Zhao and I.R. de Farias JR., "The Mixing-MIR Set with Divisible Capacities," Mathematical Programming 115, 73-103 (2008).
I.R. de Farias JR., M. Zhao, and H. Zhao, "A Special Ordered Set Approach for Optimizing a Discontinuous Separable Piecewise Linear Function," Operations Research Letters 36, 234-238 (2008).
Recent Research Funding
Cardinality Bounded Mathematical Programs: New Techniques, Models and Computation. Office of Naval Research, N000140910332. PI: I.R. de Farias JR. Collaborative with Columbia University. PI at Columbia University: D. Bienstock. TTU amount: $254,809. Period: January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2011.
Branch-and-Cut Approaches for Nonconvex Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming. National Science Foundation, CMMI-0620755. PI: I.R. de Farias JR. Amount: $230,254. Period: September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2010.
Recent Graduate Students
Ming Zhao, Ph.D., summer 2008. Dissertation title: Contributions to the Polyhedral Approach to Mixed-Integer Programming. Subsequent affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher, IBM T.J. Watson Research.
Hongxia Zhao, Ph.D., fall 2006. Dissertation title: Branch-and-Cut for Single-Machine Scheduling. Subsequent affiliation: Operations Research Analyst, AMTRAK.
Recent awards
IBM Faculty Award, 2006
Second prize winner, Best Paper Award, INFORMS JFIG Paper Competition, San Francisco, November 2005. Paper: I.R. de Farias JR., "Semi-Continuous Cuts for Mixed-Integer Programming."
Recent professional service
Program committee, CP-AI-OR 2009,
Program committee, MIP 2009
For more information, contact:
Ismael Regis de Farias
JR
Department of Industrial Engineering
Texas Tech University
Box 43061
Lubbock, TX 79409-3061
(806) 742-3543
Ismael.de-Farias@ttu.edu