• Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
  • Holder of the Mike and Sugar Barnes Professorship III, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Alfredo Garcia

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan - 1997
  • D.E.A Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies, Automatique et Informatique Industrielle; Universite de Toulouse III, Toulouse, France - 1992

Research Interests

  • Dr. Alfredo Garcia's research interests include game theory and dynamic optimization, with applications in electricity and communication networks.

Selected Publications

  • "Modeling Driver Responses to Automation Failures with Active Inference" (2022) R. Wei, A. McDonald, A. Garcia and H. Alambeigi, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2022.3155381.
  • "Distributed Networked Learning with Correlated Data" (2022) L. Hong, A. Garcia and C. Eksin, Automatica, Vol. 137 pp. 110-134.
  • "An Incentive Compatible Iterative Mechanism for Coupling Electricity Markets" (2022), A. Garcia, R. Khatami, C. Eksin and F. Sezer, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 7 No. 2 pp. 1241-1252.
  • "On Distributed Non-convex Optimization: Projected Subgradient Method For Weakly Convex Problems in Networks" (2022) S. Chen, A. Garcia and S. Shahrampour, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 67 No.2, pp. 662-675.
  • "A Flocking-based Approach for Distributed Stochastic Optimization" (2017) S. Pu and A. Garcia, Operations Research, Vol. 6, pp. 267-281, https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2017.1666?
  • "Interactive Model-based Search with Reactive Resource Allocation" (2017), Y. Sun and A. Garcia, Journal of Global Optimization, (2017) Vol 67, No.1 pp. 135-149.
  • "Market Structure and the Competitive Effects of Switching Costs" (2015) , N. Fabra and A. Garcia, Economic Letters, (2015) Vol. 126, pp. 150-155.