Appendix IC. Faculty Vitae

Tim Van Voorhis
Assistant Professor

Degrees:

Bachelor of Arts, Covenant College, May 1988

Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, Georgia Tech, June 1988

Masters in Operations Research, Georgia Tech, December 1992

Doctor of Philosophy, Georgia Tech, September 1997

Number of Years Service: (to ISU)

3 years: original appointment began on August 15, 1997

Related Experience:

3 years at Energy Management Associates (now NewEnergy Associates), 1988-1991

5 years as either a Graduate Teaching Assistant or a Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Tech, 1991-1997

Consulting, Patents: none

Professional Registration: none

Principal Publications:

"Robustness Synthesis in l₁: a Globally Optimal Solution", with Mustafa Khammash and Murti V. Salapaka, in: Robustness in Identification and Control, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science, 245, Springer, London, 1999, 318-328.

"Synthesis of Globally Optimal Controllers in l₁ using the Reformulation-Linearization Technique", with Mustafa H. Khammash and M. V. Salapaka, Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, v. 3, 3315-3320, Tampa, Florida, December 1998.

"Accelerating Convergence of Branch and Bound Algorithms for Quadratically Constrained Optimization Problems", with Faiz Al-Khayyal, State of the Art in Global Optimization: Computational Methods and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 267-284, 1996.

"A Relaxation Method for Nonconvex Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs", with Faiz Al-Khayyal and Christian Larsen, Journal of Global Optimization 6:215-230, 1995.

"A Global Optimization Algorithm using Lagrangian Underestimates and the Interval Newton Method", submitted to Journal of Global Optimization, October 1999.

"Difference of Convex Solution of Quadratically Constrained Optimization Problems", with Faiz A. Al-Khayyal, submitted to the European Journal of Operational Research, January 2000.

"Developing Software for Generating Pouring Schedules for Steel Foundries", submitted to Computers and Industrial Engineering, February 2000.

Professional Societies:

INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)

Honors and Awards: none

Institutional and Professional Service:

Institutional: Have served on both the Graduate Committee and on the Recruiting and Retention Committe, have assisted in the development of "hands-on" workshops to introduce prospective students to the field of industrial engineering

Professional: Have reviewed papers for Journal of Global Optimization, Mathematical Programming and Computers and Industrial Engineering; have chaired sessions at two INFORMS conferences

Professional Development: none