Robert H. Storer

 - Professor of:
   Industrial & Systems Engineering

 

 - Co-Director of the

   Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program

 

- Co-Director of the

Analytical Finance Masters Program

 

 at Lehigh University,

 

I&SE Department

Mohler Lab #200

Lehigh Unvierstiy
Bethlehem, PA  18015-1582
Phone: (610) 758-4436
rhs2 “at” lehigh.edu     Send me Email 

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     Last Update: May, 2012

 

Current Research Interests

-         IE/OR/Systems Engineering applications in Healthcare Delivery

-         Sequencing and scheduling, especially robust, adaptive and stochastic problems, and stochastic combinatorial optimization

-         Heuristics including Problem Space Search based methods and methods based on stochastic integer programming

-         Estimation, simulation and modeling in financial engineering

Background and Education:

Ph. D. Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987

M. S. Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1982

B. S. Industrial and Operations Engineering, The University of Michigan, 1979

 

Professional Experience

 

Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University (5/99‑ Present)

Founding Co‑Director, , Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program (1999‑ Present)

Co-Director, Analytical Finance Program (2007-Present)

Distinguished visiting scholar, Frontera University, Temuco, Chile, (Summer 2005)

Co‑Director, Manufacturing Logistics Institute, Lehigh University (1995‑ 2003)

Visiting Scientist, University of South Australia, (6/99-8/99 and 2/03)

Visiting Scientist, Air Products and Chemicals Inc., (6/98 – 8/98)

Visiting Scientist, Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Adelaide, Australia (12/96 – 8/97)

Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, Lehigh University (4/93‑ 5/99)

Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, Lehigh University (9/87‑4/93)

Instructor, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Lehigh University (9/86 – 8/87)

Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech (9/81 – 8/86)

Research Engineer, General Dynamics Corp. (8/79‑8/81)

 

Professional Societies:

The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

INFORMS (formerly ORSA/TIMS).

The American Statistical Association (ASA)

Tau Beta Pi

 

Courses at Lehigh

-         Introduction to Health Systems Engineering (Fall 2010)

-         Simulation  IE 305/404 Spring 2012 Syllabus

-         Integrated Business and Engineering Junior Lab on Logistics and Ops. Mgmt. using the Business Game (Internal Lehigh Link)     IBE 250 Fall 2011 Syllabus

-         Design of Experiments  IE 410 Fall 2009 Syllabus

-         Deterministic Models in OR

-         Times Series Analysis

-         Probabilistic Models in OR

-         Statistical Process Control

-         Advanced Methods in Quality Control

-         Probability and Statistics IE 111 Syllabus Fall 2011

 

Honors and Awards

-     Deming Lewis Award, recognizing the Lehigh faculty member who has significantly influenced the educational experience of the 10th year alumni class (2011-2012).

-         Outstanding Faculty Award, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University (1991-1992, 2001-2002, 2010-2011, and 2011-2012)

-         Lehigh University Founder’s Day Keynote Address (2009)

-         Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award, Lehigh's highest award for teaching (2009)

-         Lehigh University 2005 – Most cited Paper in Engineering from Lehigh University (88 Citations in 2005). "Disturbance Detection and Isolation by Dynamic Principal Component Analysis", W. Ku, R.H. Storer, and C. Georgakis, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 30, pp. 179-196, (1995).

-         Most cited papers in “Management Science” from 1992  “New Search Spaces for Sequencing Problems with Application to Job Shop Scheduling”, R.H. Storer, S.D. Wu, and R. Vaccari, Management Science 38 (10): 1495

-         Distinguished visiting scholar for Summer 2005, Frontera University, Temuco, Chile

-         Nominated jointly with S.D. Wu for the Eleanor and Joseph F. Libsch Research Award, Lehigh University (1997)

-         Exxon Education Foundation Award (1990-1991, 1991-1992, 1992-1993)

-         President’s Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1982

 

 

Journal Publications

“Stochastic integer programming based algorithms for adaptable open block surgery scheduling”, Camilo Mancilla and Robert H. Storer, MSOM, in review, 2012.

"A set-partitioning-based model for the stochastic vehicle routing problem", C. Novoa, R. Berger, J. Linderoth, R. Storer, European Journal of Operational Research, in review.

“Stochastic Sequencing of Surgeries for a Single Surgeon Operating in Parallel Operating Rooms”, C. Mancilla and R.H. Storer, IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, in review.

“Balanced Assignment of Experimental Units in the Analysis of Covariance through Optimization”, Robert Howley and R.H. Storer, IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability, in revision, 2011.

“New Estimators of the Hurst Index for Fractional Brownian Motion”, V. Dobric, D. Scansaroli and R.H. Storer, under revision 2011.

“A sample average approximation approach to stochastic appointment sequencing and scheduling”, C. Mancilla and R.H. Storer, IIE Transactions, to appear (2012).

 “Predictive/reactive scheduling with controllable processing times”, A. Turkcan, M.S. Akturk and R.H. Storer, IIE Transactions, Vol. 41, pp. 1080-1095, (2009)

“A family of linear programming algorithms based on an algorithm by von Neumann”, J.P.M. Goncalves, Robert H. Storer, and Jacek Gondzio, Optimization Methods and Software,  Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 461-478 (2009)

“An approximate dynamic programming approach for the vehicle routing problem”, Clara M. Novoa and Robert H. Storer, European Journal of Operations Research Vol. 196, No.2, pp. 509-515, (2009)

“The influence of latex blend composition on crosslinking and mechanical properties”, Brian Boyars, Eric S. Daniels, Robert Storer, Andrew Klein, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol. 104, N0 6, pp. 3774-3779 (2007)

“Due Date and Cost Based FMS Loading, Scheduling and Tool Management”, Ayten Turkcan, M. Selim Akturk, Robert H. Storer, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 45, No.5, 1 March 2007, 1183-1213. (2007).

“Techniques for Solving the Subset Sum Problem”, R.J.W. James and R.H. Storer, International Transactions in Operational Research, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp 437-453,  (2005).

 

“Heuristic Algorithms for a Turbine-Blade-Balancing Problem”, Wonjoon Choi and Robert H. Storer, Computers in Operations Research, 31 pp. 1245-1258. (2004)

 

J. Pan, G. L. Tonkay, R. H. Storer, R. Sallade, and D. Leandri, "Critical Variables of Solder Paste Stencil Printing for micro-BGA and Fine Pitch QFP," IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing 27(2) pp. 125-132.  (2004)

 

"A Problem Space Algorithm for Single Machine Weighted Tardiness Problems"' Selcuk Avci, M. Selim Akturk, Robert H. Storer, IIE Transaction , 35(5), pp. 479-486, (2003).

" Nonidentical Parallel CNC Machine Scheduling”, Ayten Turkcan, M. Selim Akturk, Robert H. Storer, International Journal of Production Research. 41(10), pp. 2143-2168, (2003).

"Improving Melt Scheduling in Steel Manufacturing Processes," K.S. Naphade, S.D. Wu, R.H. Storer, and B.J. Doshi, Operations Research, 2001

“Heuristic and Exact Algorithms for Scheduling Aircraft Landings”, A. Ernst, M. Krishnamoorthy and R.H. Storer, Networks, Vol. 34, No. 3, 229-241, 1999.

“A Graph-theoretic Decomposition of the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem to Achieve Scheduling Robustness”, Wu, S.D., Byeon, E.S., and R.H. Storer, Operations Research Vol. 47, No. 1, 113-124, 1999.

"Decomposition Heuristics for Robust Job-Shop Scheduling", E.S. Byeon, S.D. Wu, and R.H. Storer; IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 14(2), pp. 303-313, (1998).

“Problem Space Search Algorithms for Resource Constrained Project Scheduling”, K. Naphade, S.D. Wu , and R.H. Storer, The Annals of Operations Research, 70, pp. 307-326 (1997).

"Problem Space Local Search for Number Partitioning" R.H. Storer,  S.W. Flanders and S.D. Wu, The Annals of Operations Research, 63, pp. 465-487, (1996).

“A Neural Network Approach to Prediction of Vehicle Driving Comfort", L.I. Burke, R.H. Storer, L.L. Lansing, and S.W. Flanders, IIE Transactions, 28(6), pp. 439-452, (1996).

"Local Search in Problem and Heuristic Space for Job Shop Scheduling" R.H. Storer, S.D. Wu and R. Vaccari, ORSA Journal on Computing, 7(4), pp. 453-467, (1995).

"Datapath Synthesis Using Problem Space Genetic Algorithms", M.K. Dhodhi, F.H. Hielscher, R.H. Storer, and J. Bhasker, IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 14(8), pp. 934-944, (1995).

"Shemus: Synthesis of Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Systems", M.K. Dhodhi, I. Ahmad, and R.H. Storer, the Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems 19(6), pp. 311-320, (1995).

"High-Level Synthesis of Self-recoverable ASICs Using Micro Rollback", I. Ahmad, M.K. Dhodhi, K. Saleh, and R.H. Storer, International Journal of Electronics, 142(1), pp.65-71, (1995).

"Disturbance Detection and Isolation by Dynamic Principal Component Analysis", W. Ku, R.H. Storer, and C. Georgakis, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 30, pp. 179-196, (1995).

"Uses of State Estimation for Statistical Process Control", Ku, W., Storer, R.H., and Georgakis, C., Computers in Chemical Engineering, 18, pp. S571-S575, (1994).

"Robustness Measures and Robust Scheduling for Job Shops," Leon, V. J., Wu, S.D. and Storer, R. H., IIE Transactions, 26(5),  pp. 32-43, (1994).

"A Game Theoretic Approach for Job Shops in the Presence of Random Disruptions", Leon,V.J., Wu, S.D., and Storer, R.H., International Journal of Production Research, 32(6), pp. 1451-1476, (1994).

"One-Machine Rescheduling Heuristics with Efficiency and Stability as Criteria," Wu, S.D., Storer, R.H. and Chang, P.C., Computers and Operations Research, 20(1), pp.1-14, (1993).

"New Search Spaces for Sequencing Problems with Application to Job Shop Scheduling" R.H. Storer,  S.D. Wu and R. Vaccari, Management Science., 38(10), pp. 1495-1509, (1992).

"A Study of Wheel Wear in Electrochemical Surface Grinding", Ilhan, R., Sathyanarayanan, R., Storer, R.H., and Phillips, R., Journal of Engineering for Industry, Transactions of ASME, 114(1), pp. 82-93, (1992).

"Off-Line Multiresponse Optimization of Electrochemical Surface Grinding by a Multi-Objective Programming Method", Ilhan, R.E., Sathyanarayanan, G., Storer, R.H. and Liao, W.T., International Journal of Machine Tool Design and Manufacture, 32(3), pp. 435-452, (1992).

"Economic Models and Process Quality Control", Montgomery, D.C. and Storer, R.H., Quality and Reliability International, 2(4), pp. 221-228, (1987).

“Parameters Effecting Hospital Occupancy and Implications for Facility Sizing”, W. Hancock, D. Magerlein, J. Martin and R.H. Storer, Health Services Research, 2(4), pp. 221-228, (1978).

“A Simulation Study of Parameters Effecting Unit Occupancy and Implications for Facility Sizing”, W. Hancock, K. Hawley, J. Martin and R.H. Storer, Health Services Research, (1978).

 

Funded Research Projects

  • "An IGERT Fellowship Program in Global Manufacturing Logistics", National Science Foundation, PI: S.D. Wu, Co-PI's, R.H. Storer, R. Herrenkohl, P. Harker, 1999-2006.
  • “A Faculty in Industry Internship to Study Manufacturing Logistics Optimization Problems at Air Products and Chemicals Inc.”, 6/98 – 6/99, National Science Foundation. 
  • “Incorporating Machining Parameters into Manufacturing Logistics”, NATO Collaborative Research Grants Programme, PI’s: R.H. Storer and M.S. Akturk (Bilkent University, Turkey), 1/98-1/00.

·        “Research and Development of Load Optimization”, PA Northeast Tier Ben Franklin Partnership and TRL Inc., PI’s R.H. Storer and J.C. Hartman.

  • Workshop on Manufacturing Logistics: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice, S.D Wu and R.H. Storer,  NSF, 1996-1998.
  • "Extracting Critical Decisions for Planning, Optimization and Control", S.D. Wu, PI, R.H. Storer Co-PI, NSF/BethForge.

·        "Development of a Reliable Neural Network System for Integrating Comfort Assessment with Ergonomic Design", L.I. Burke and R.H. Storer, Co-PI's. Chrysler Challenge Fund.

·        "A Manufacturing View of the Software Development Process", Co-PI's: R.H. Storer and S.D. Wu, Unisys Corp.

·        Exxon Education Foundation Award,1990-1993

Ph.D. Students Supervised

·        Rob Howley, “Optimization approaches to bounds on random variables” Ph.D. Dissertation. Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, expected 2013, Co-chaired with Luis Zuluaga.

·        Camilo Mancilla, “Algorithms for Stochastic Scheduling Problems in Health Care Delivery”, Ph.D. Dissertation. Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 2011

·        Daniel Scansaroli, “Fractional Brownian Motion Models in Finance”, Ph.D. Dissertation. Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 2011 Co-chaired with Vladimir Dobric.

·        Stephen Mansour, “Mortgage Pricing Models”, Ph.D. Dissertation. Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, expected 2011 Co-chaired with Vladimir Dobric.

·        Wasu Glankwamdee, Ph.D. Dissertation. Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 2008 Co-chaired with Jeff Linderoth.

·        Udom Janjarassuk, Ph.D. Dissertation. Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 2009 Co-chaired with Jeff Linderoth.

·        Joao Goncalves, “Extensions of Von Neumann’s Algorithm for Linear Programming”, Ph.D. Dissertation,  Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 2006.  (Currently with IBM)

·        Clara Novoa, “Approximate Dynamic Programming Algorithms for Stochastic-Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems”, Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 2005. (Currently Asst. Prof. Texas State University)

·        Charalombos Marangos, “Simulation Based Scheduling Algorithms”, (Co-chaired with E. Zimmers),  Ph.D. Dissertation,  Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 2003.

·        Nianpin Cheng, “Heuristics for the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem”,,  Ph.D. Dissertation,  Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 5/03

·        Selcuk Avci, “Novel Heuristics for Scheduling Problems with Non-regular Performance Measures”, Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Lehigh University,  6/01.

·        Jaime Bustos, “New Approaches to Stochastic Scheduling”, Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Lehigh University, 1/01. (Currently Prof., Frontera University, Chile).

  • Jose Basto, “Design and Control Issues in the Reconfigurable Factory”, Co-chaired with S.D. Wu, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Lehigh University, 9/00. (Currently Prof. University of Porto, Portugal).
  • F. Chen, “A Novel Approach for Multivariate Analysis in Ergonomic Design”, Co-chaired with L.I. Burke, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Lehigh University, 5/98.
  • K. Naphade, “A Graph-Theoretic Framework for Integrated Assembly Planning”, Co-chaired with S.D. Wu, Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Lehigh University, 5/97. (Market Rx Inc.)
  • Park, “Problem and Heuristic Space Search Methods for Large-Scaled Combinatorial Problems”, Co-chaired with S.D. Wu, Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Lehigh University (1994). (Currently with the Korean Navy)
  • W. Ku, “Statistical Process Control for Ethylene Polymerization Reactors”, Co-Chaired with C. Georgakis, Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, (1994). (BOC Inc.)
  • J. Macedo, “Active Reduction of Location Uncertainty in Large Scale Robots”, Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Lehigh University, (1991). (Currently Prof. Cal Poly SLO)

Family

My wife Amy is a Professor of Nursing at Cedar Crest College
My daughter Andrea is graduating from Lehigh University majoring in Environmental Science.
My son Bobby is graduating from Liberty High School.  He will attend Lehigh University. He is in the band BOF.