JONATHAN F. BARD

The University of Texas

Graduate Program in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering

1 University Station, C2200

Austin, TX 78712-0292

 

512-471-3076 (office)

512-232-1489 (fax)

 

jbard@mail.utexas.edu

http://www.me.utexas.edu/~bard

 

EDUCATION:

D.Sc. -   The George Washington University, 1979

               Operations Research (Minor in Statistics)

 

M.S.  -   Stanford University, 1969

               Aeronautical Engineering (Concentration in

               Optimization and Control Theory)

 

B.S.  -    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1968

               Aeronautical Engineering

REGISTRATION:

Professional Engineer, Texas # 58835

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

1984 – present

University of Texas                                                                          Austin, TX

Professor & Industrial Properties Corporation Faculty Fellow,

    Department of Mechanical Engineering

Area Coordinator, Operations Research & Industrial Engineering Program

Associate Director, Center for Management of Operations & Logistics

Assistant Graduate Advisor, Manufacturing Systems Program

1983 – 1984

University of California                                                                 Berkeley, CA

Associate Professor  

Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

1981 – 1983

Northeastern University                                                                 Boston, MA

Assistant Professor

College of Business Administration

Department of Management Science

1979 – 1982

University of Massachusetts                                                          Boston, MA

Assistant Professor

College of Management

Department of Management Science

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1975 – 1979

The Aerospace Corporation                                                          Washington, DC

Program Manager

1972 – 1975

Booz, Allen & Hamilton                                                                 Bethesda, MD

Project Manager

1969 – 1972

The Mitre Corporation   Bedford, MA

Systems Engineer

 

 

RESEARCH:

Design and analysis of manufacturing systems, workforce issues in healthcare, disruption management, hierarchical optimization and decomposition techniques, personnel planning and scheduling, lean internal and external logistics

 


HONORS & AWARDS:

INFORMS Fellow (2006)

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

Hamilton Book Award; Operations Research Models and Methods (2004)

University Co-operative Society

Outstanding IIE Publication (2003)

Institute of Industrial Engineers

IIE Transactions Award for Best Application Paper (2003)

Institute of Industrial Engineers

David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award (2002)

Institute of Industrial Engineers

DeanÕs Fellow (2002)

The University of Texas

Fellow, Center for Decisions under Uncertainty (2001)

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

Operations Research Division Outstanding Contribution Award (1997)

Institute of Industrial Engineers

IIE Fellow (1996)

Institute of Industrial Engineers

Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award; Project Management (1995)

Institute of Industrial Engineers

LAIL Research Fellowship (June 1995)

Ecole Centrale de Lille

Outstanding IIE Publication Award (1994)

Institute of Industrial Engineers

CORE Research Fellowship (1994)

Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, UCL, Belgium

Distinguished Scholar (June 1994)

Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications

Operations Research Division Application Award (1993)

Institute of Industrial Engineers

Industrial Properties Corp. Endowed Faculty Fellow (1990-present)

The University of Texas

Lady Davis Fellowship (1989-90)

The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

University Faculty Research Award (1989)

The University of Texas

IIE, Vector to Excellence Award, Austin Chapter (1988-89)

US Army-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship (1988)

Belvoir RD&E Center

Sun Oil Fellowship (Spring 1986)

NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship (1985)

Johnson Space Center/Texas A&M University

NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship (1983)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CALTECH

 

EDITORSHIPS:

IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering (Editor), 1996 - present

Management Science (Associate Editor), 1997 - 2002

IEEE Trans. on Engineering Management (Editorial Board), 1985 - present

Journal of the Operational Research Society (Advisory Board), 2006 - present

IntÕl Journal of Production Research (Editorial Board), 1997 - present

Computers & Operations Research (Editorial Board), 1985 - present

IIE Transactions (Department Editor for Applied Optimization), 1986 - 1995

 

 

PATENTS:

System and Method for Optimizing Equipment Schedules, U.S. Patent Application No. 10/929,771; Filed 08/31/2004.

 

System and Method for Preference Scheduling of Staffing Resources, U.S. Patent Application No. 10/852,435; Filed 05/25/2004.

 

 


INDUSTRIAL HIGHLIGHTS:

Designed long-range planning framework for automating general mail processing facilities at the U.S. Postal Service and developed software to manage both equipment acquisition and operations.

 

Reengineered the information flows in a PCB assembly plant and developed a decision support system for scheduling production.

 

Designed and implemented a nurse management decision support system now running in over a dozen hospitals in the US and UK.

 

Analyzed and redesigned the layout of a $10 million FMS work center using group technology concepts.

              

Developed the requirements for, and oversaw the acquisition of, a fully automated MRP system for an international electronics firm.

 

Designed a management information system for measuring worker productivity in the shipbuilding industry and performed a longitudinal statistical study to assess operational deficiencies.

 

Designed and conducted a wide variety of feasibility and operation analyses involving vehicle routing, risk-benefit tradeoffs, telecommunications systems, and corporate strategic planning.

 

 

SOFTWARE:

BLP: Branch and bound algorithm for linear and integer bilevel programming

NBLP: Branch and bound algorithm for nonlinear bilevel programming

AHP: Implementation of Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy Process

R&D: Interactive code for R&D project selection and termination

PALB: Dynamic programming implementation of assembly line balancing with parallel workstations

MAJOR CONSULTING:

2006 ­- present

2001 – present

Federal Express

Care Systems, Inc.

Pittsburgh, PA

Rockville, MD

1997 – 2005

Caleb Technologies

Austin, TX

1996 – 2003

Continental Airlines

Houston, TX

1994 – 1996

Ryder Trucking

Miami, FL

1994 – 1996

Ministry of Agriculture

Paris, France

1994 – 1996

Japan Post

Tokyo, Japan

1992 – present

Planmatics, Inc.

Bethesda, MD

1992 – 1993

AIQ Systems, Inc.

Incline Village, NV

1990 – 1991

U.S. Postal Service

Washington, DC

1988 – 1991

Arthur D. Little, Inc.

Washington, DC

1988 – 1991

Texas Instruments

Austin, TX

1987 – 1988

American Airlines

Dallas, TX

1985 – 1990

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Pasadena, CA

1984 – 1985

Transamerica Delaval, Inc.

Burlingame, CA

1983 – 1984

Zehntel Corporation

Walnut Creek, CA

1982 – 1984

Decision Analysis Corporation

Lexington, MA

1982 – 1985

System Software, Inc.

Boston, MA  

1981 – 1983

Office of Technology Assessment

Washington, DC

1980 – 1983

U.S. Department of HUD

Washington, DC

 

BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS:

 

Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology

 

Who's Who in Computer Education and Research

 

International Directory of Distinguished Leadership

 

International Who's Who in Engineering

 

WhoÕs Who in Engineering Education

 

SOCIETIES:

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) (Past President, Austin Chapter)

Production & Operations Management Society (POMS)

Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Omega Rho (Operations Research)

Sigma Tau (Engineering)


GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION:

 

Ph.D. Dissertations

[1]      ÒEfficient Arc Reduction in Stochastic Networks,Ó James E. Bennett (1987).

 

[2]      ÒExtensions to the Multilevel Programming Problem,Ó James T. Moore (1987).

 

[3]      ÒAlgorithms for Nonlinear Bilevel Mathematical Programs,Ó Thomas A. Edmunds (1988).

 

[4]      ÒMathematical Models for the Design, Analysis and Staffing of General Mail Facilities,Ó Ahmad Jarrah (1991).

 

[5]      ÒThe Set-Union Knapsack Problem,Ó David Nehme (December 1995).

 

[6]      ÒFramework for Exact and Heuristics Solutions for the AirlinesÕ Irregular Operations Routing Problem,Ó Michael ArgŸello (May 1997).

 

[7]      ÒThe Inventory Routing Problem with Satellite Facilities,Ó Liu Huang (August 1997).

 

[8]      ÒThe Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Capacity Constraints,Ó Georgios Kontoravdis (August 1997).

 

[9]      ÒTheory and Algorithms for Flow Shop Scheduling with Setup Times,Ó Roger Rios Mercado (August 1997).

 

[10]    ÒModels and Solution Techniques for the Aircraft Schedule Recovery Problem,Ó Benjamin G. Thengvall (August 1999).

 

[11]    ÒModeling and Optimization of Disruption Management,Ó Xiangtong Qi (May 2003).

 

[12]    ÒModel and Solution Techniques for Machine Scheduling Problems in High Volume Factories,Ó Xinhui Zhang (August 2003).

 

[13]    ÒMultimachine Scheduling with Priority and Resource Constraints,Ó Siwate Rojanasoonthon (May 2004).

 

[14]    ÒStaff Planning and Scheduling in the Service Industry: An Application to US Postal Service Mail Processing and Distribution Centers,Ó Lin Wan (May 2005).

 

[15]    ÒModels and Algorithms for Midterm and Daily Nursing Scheduling,Ó Hadi W. Purnomo (May 2005).

 

[16]    ÒResource Reallocation in Project Management,Ó Guidong Zhu (May 2005).

 

[17]    ÒA Stochastic Optimization Approach to Long-Term Staff Planning at the U.S. Postal Service,Ó Yong Min Wang (August 2006).

 

[18]    ÒLot-Sizing and Inventory Routing for a Production-Distribution Supply Chain,Ó Narameth Nananukul (May 2008).

 

[19]    ÒPhysician Rostering,Ó Shankar Dhanaraj (expected May 2009).

 

[20]    ÒFacility Planning and Scheduling for Discrete Manufacturing,Ó Yumin Deng (expected May 2009).

 

M.S. Theses

[1]      ÒOptimal Through Flight Analysis,Ó Ian G. Cunningham (1985).

 

[2]      ÒA Multiple Objective Methodology for Evaluating Space Station Subsystem Automation,Ó John M. Kelly (1985).

 

[3]      ÒOptimal R&D Resource Allocation,Ó Pedro E. Kaufmann (1987).

 

[4]      ÒShortest Path Problems for Probabilistic Networks,Ó Jeanne L. Miller (1987).

 

[5]      ÒSingle Machine Scheduling with Flowtime and Earliness Penalties,Ó Krishnamurthi Venkatraman (1989).

 

[6]      ÒDesign and Optimization of a Long-Distance Telephone Networks,Ó Wassim Bejjani (1989).

 

[7]      ÒPrinted Circuit Board Component Insertion Optimization,Ó Raymond Clayton (1989).

 

[8]      ÒSimulation and Mixed Integer Linear Programming Models for Analysis of Semi-Automated Mail Processing,Ó Steven D. Wert (1989).

 

[9]      ÒSimulation of a Printed Wire Board Facility,Ó Louis G. Zachos (1989).

 

[10]    ÒDiscrete Event Simulation of a Medium Volume Production Line Using Slam II Simulation Language,Ó Daniel J. Crowley (1991).

 

[11]    ÒSequencing Mixed-Model Assembly Lines to Minimize Inventory and Line Length,Ó Sameer Joshi (1991).

 

[12]    ÒA Manufacturing Data Collection System,Ó Lea Ann Graham (1992).

 

[13]    ÒFacility-Wide Improvements to Printed Wire Board Assembly Scheduling,Ó Scott D. Holland (1992).

 

[14]    ÒAn Analysis of the Potential Impact of Control Strategies for Bulk Queueing Systems on Semiconductor Manufacturing Facilities,Ó Jennifer K. Robinson (1993).

 

[15]    ÒCapacity Expansion with Discrete Options in Semiconductor Manufacturing Systems,Ó Krishna Srinivasan (1995).

 

[16]    ÒCollaborative Product Development and Management,Ó Raja W. Shaik (2000).

 

[17]    ÒWorkforce Scheduling in the Service Industry,Ó Canan Binici (2000).

 

[18]    ÒSolving Nurse Scheduling Problems Using the Column Generation Approach,Ó Hadi W. Purnomo (2002).

 

[19]    ÒSolving the Workgroup Assignment Problem Using Tabu Search,Ó Lakshmi N.K. Ramachandran (2003).

 

[20]    ÒAn Analysis of the Arrival Slot Reallocation Problem during a Ground Delay Program,Ó Dinesh N. Mohan (May 2005).

 

[21]    ÒOn Implementing Hit-and-Run Drivers in a Multi-Start Framework,Ó Domingo A. Lara (May 2007).