Bio

Thom Hodgson is a Distinguished University Professor and an Alumni Distinguished Research Professor. He served as Co-Director of the Operations Research Program (2009 2013); Director of Graduate Programs for Engineering-On-Line (2009-2013); Director of the Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute (’95-’11); Director of the Division of Design and Manufacturing Systems at the National Science Foundation (’91-’93); Head of the Industrial Engineering Department at NCSU (’83-’90); Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Florida (’70-’83); Operations Research Analyst at Ford Motor Company (’66-’70); and an Officer in the U.S. Army (’61-’63). He is a Fellow of IIE and INFORMS, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the author or co-author of over 80 journal articles and book chapters. He served as Associate Editor, Departmental Editor (’81-’84, ’88-’91), and Editor-in-Chief (’84-’88) of the IIE Transactions. He served as a member of the U.S. Army Science Board (’94-’00) and has been a member of a number of study committees for the National Research Council. He is a handball player and a former skydiving instructor.

Area(s) of Expertise

Thom Hodgson's research interests include scheduling, logistics, production and inventory control; manufacturing systems; and applied and military operations research.

Publications

• Improving chemotherapy infusion operations through the simulation of scheduling heuristics: a case study , Health Systems (2020)
• Modeling and transportation planning for US noncombatant evacuation operations in South Korea , Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics (2020)
• A Military Logistics Network Planning System , Military Operations Research (2018)
• A comparison of mixed integer programming formulations of the capacitated lot-sizing problem , International Journal of Production Research (2017)
• Allocation heuristics for high-altitude long- endurance UAV image intelligence platforms , Military Operations Research (2017)
• On the economic lot scheduling problem: stock-out prevention and system feasibility , International Journal of Production Research (2015)
• A practical method for evaluating worker allocations in large-scale dual resource constrained job shops , IIE Transactions (2014)
• Allocating job-shop manpower to minimize Lmax: Optimality criteria, search heuristics, and probabilistic quality metrics , Computers & Operations Research (2013)
• An effective lower bound on L-max in a worker-constrained job shop , Computers & Operations Research (2013)
• An effective lower bound on Lmax in a worker-constrained job shop , Computers & Operations Research (2012)

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