Behind every efficient hospital, on-time flight, and well-run supply chain is a set of hard math problems — and OR is how we solve them. ISEN faculty use optimization, probability, simulation, and machine learning to help complex systems make smarter decisions, with real-world impact across energy, healthcare, transportation, supply chains, manufacturing, and public policy.
Mathematical Optimization & Algorithms
Faculty design the mathematical models and algorithms used to solve complex optimization problems — including problems that are large-scale, nonlinear, or involve many interacting variables. This work forms the foundation for improving efficiency in systems like networks, supply chains, and resource allocation.
Stochastic Systems, Simulation & Uncertainty
Many real systems involve unpredictability — fluctuating demand, random failures, variable wait times. Faculty develop probability-based and simulation models to help understand, predict, and manage systems affected by uncertainty and risk.
Data-Driven Operations Research & Learning
This combines machine learning with optimization to turn data into decisions — not just predicting outcomes, but recommending actions. Work here includes reinforcement learning, data-driven optimization, and other methods that use data to guide better decision-making.
Networks, Games & Distributed Decision-Making
Some systems involve multiple decision-makers whose choices affect one another. Faculty study how network structure and strategic interaction shape outcomes, drawing on game theory, multi-agent systems, and distributed computing.
Hrayer Aprahamian
- Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4020
- Phone: 979-458-2379
- Email: hrayer@tamu.edu
Sergiy Butenko
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Liollio Family Faculty Fellow, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4037
- Phone: 979-458-2333
- Email: butenko@tamu.edu
David Eckman
- Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4014
- Phone: 979-458-2380
- Email: eckman@tamu.edu
Ceyhun Eksin
- Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Corrie and Jim Furber '64 Faculty Fellow
- Affiliated Faculty, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Office: ETB 4018
- Phone: 979-458-2363
- Email: eksinc@tamu.edu
Richard M. Feldman
- Senior Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Professor Emeritus
- Office: ETB 4011
- Phone: 979-845-5585
- Email: richf@tamu.edu
Alfredo Garcia
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Holder of the Mike and Sugar Barnes Professorship III, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4072
- Phone: 979-458-2368
- Email: alfredo.garcia@tamu.edu
Joe Geunes
- Associate Department Head for Graduate Affairs, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Mike and Sugar Barnes Professor
- Office: ETB 4024
- Phone: 979-862-9114
- Email: geunes@tamu.edu
Petar Momcilovic
- Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4043
- Phone: 979-458-2374
- Email: petar@tamu.edu
Erick Moreno-Centeno
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Mike & Sugar Barnes Faculty Fellow
- Office: ETB 4034
- Phone: 979-458-2335
- Email: emc@tamu.edu
Lewis Ntaimo
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4008
- Phone: 979-458-2360
- Email: Ntaimo@tamu.edu
Shixuan Zhang
- Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4031
- Phone: 979-458-2362
- Email: shixuan.zhang@tamu.edu
