Research Experience for Undergraduates

Undergraduate students who worked with Professor Jim Dai on research at Georgia Tech

• Steve Neuroth (2001), supported in part by NSF grant DMI-9813345
  
  J. G. Dai and S. Neuroth, "DPPS scheduling policies in semiconductor wafer fabs," in Proc. International Conference on Modeling and Analysis of Semiconductor Manufacturing, G. T. Mackulak, J.W. Fowler, and A.Schomig Eds., Tempe, Arizona, 194-199, 2002.
  [full paper (328 Kbytes)]

• Dan Rosback (2008), jointly supervised by Professor Sunil Kumar at Stanford University, Professor Wuqin Lin at Northwestern University, and Jim Dai.
  Supported in part by NSF grant CMMI-0727400
  Research project: Maximum pressure polices for reentrant lines: a simulation approach using rline version 2.
  

• Nathan Petty (2008), supported in part by NSF grant CMMI-0727400 and by Georgia Tech President office
  Research project: Markov decision processes and sparse matrices for reentrant lines.
  See a paper below by Yi Zhang for a summary of this work.
  

• Carol Wang (2008), California Institute of Technology
  Research project: sparse matrices and iterative solvers.
  

• Yi Zhang (2010)
  Yi did undergraduate research in Spring 2010 and continued in the fall of 2010 when he was a first year Ph.D. student.
  Research project: Markov decision processes for reentrant lines.
  Here is a paper that is based on the earlier work of Nathan Petty and Dan Rosback. A supplement of the paper displaying an optimal policy can be downloaded here .
  

• Andrew Frazelle (2011)
  Andrew worked on an airline revenue management project.