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Education

• Ph.D., Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Virginia Tech.
  
• M.A., Mathematics, West Virginia University.
  
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, West Virginia Institute of Technology.

Research Interests

• Mathematical Programming and Applied Optimization
• Facility Location
• Sequential Tolerance Control
• Routing and Distribution Problems
• Network Optimization

Selected Research Projects

• FINDIT/FLOWIT, U.S. Army, March 1994-July 1996 (with J.A. Ventura).
• Sequential Tolerance Control in Machining, NSF, August 1996-January 2000 (with E.A. Lehtihet).
• Probabilistic Sequential Tolerance Control, NSF, August 1999-August 2001 (with E. del Castillo, E.A. Lehtihet).
• Producibility Models for the Class of Geometric Position Tolerance Controls, NSF, August 1999-August 2002 (with E.A. Lehtihet).
• Minimax Sensor Location and Bayesian Estimation of the Probability of Detection, NSF, March 2004-March 2008 (with E. del Castillo).

Books/Book Chapters

• Cavalier, T.M. Nonlinear Optimization. Chapter 104 in Handbook of Industrial Engineering, 2nd edition. pp 2613-2639. Edited by Gavriel Salvendy. John Wiley & Sons (1992).
• Ignizio, J.P., T.M. Cavalier. Linear Programming. 666 pp. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1994). (Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering).

Selected Publications