theodore b. trafalis, ph.d.

   
trafalis

Professor

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Phone: 405.325.3721
Fax: 405.325.7555
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Education

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
M.S., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
M.S., Mathematics, Purdue University
B.S., Mathematics, University of Athens

Biography

Dr. Theodore B. Trafalis is a Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He earned his B.S. in mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece, his M.S. in Applied Mathematics, M.S.I.E., and Ph.D. in Operations Research from Purdue University. He is a member of ORSA, SIAM, Hellenic Operational Society, International Society of Multiple criteria Decision Making, and the International Society of Neural Networks. His is listed in the 1993/1994 edition of Who’s Who in the World. He was a visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University (1989-1990), an invited Research Fellow at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands in 1996, and a visiting Associate Professor at Blaise Pascal University, France and at the Technical University of Crete in 1998. He was also an invited visiting Associate Professor at Akita Prefectural University, Japan in 2001.

Research Activities

Operations research/management science
Mathematical programming
Interior point methods
Multiobjective optimization
Control theory
Computational and algebraic geometry
Artificial neural networks
Kernel methods
Evolutionary programming
Global optimization