Professor Romesh Saigal
Education
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B.Tech(Hons), I.I.T. Kharagpur, India, 1961.
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M. Tech, I.I.T. Kharagpur, India 1963.
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Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1968.
Work Experience
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Assistant Professor, School of Bus Adm, Univ of Calif, Berkeley, 1967-1973.
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MTS, OR Center, Bell Telephone Labs, Holmdel, 1973-1976.
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Professor, Dept IEMS, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, 1976-1986.
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Professor, Dept IOE, Univ of Mich, Ann Arbor, 1986-present.
Research Interests
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Study of Risks in operations.
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Methods of Financial Engineering.
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Interior Point Methods for Linear and Convex Programming.
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Kalman Filtering and Stochastic Programming.
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Continuous Optimization.
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Large Scale Optimization and efficient implementations.
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Applications of Game Theory to Accounting.
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Complementarity and Fixed Point Computing.
RECENT PAPERS
Stochastic model for traffic flow prediction and its validation, (with Li Yang, Chih-peng Chu and Yat-wah Wan) TRB Washington, D.C., 2011,
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A stochastic differential equation model for spectrum utilization and its verification using spectrum measurements, (with Li Yang, Mingyan Liu, Diawei Chen) WiOpt'11, Princeton N.J., 2011
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Validation of stochastic traffic model with microscopic traffic simulation, (with Kang-ching Chu, Li Yang, Kazuhiro Saito) IEEE 7th International Conference, Triste, Italy, 2011,
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Model predictive control for vehicle platoon control under high-latency wireless communication environment, (with Hao Zhou, Francois Dion and Li Yang), Transportation Research Record , Vol. 2324 No. 10, pp. 81-91, 2012
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Distance-based dynamic pricing strategy for managed toll lanes, (with Li Yang and Hao Zhou) Transportation Research Record , Vol. 2283, No. 10, pp. 90-99, 2012
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A combinatorial auction to allocate traffic, (with Hao Zhao) TRB, Washington D.C., 2014 , Transportation Research Record No 2423, 2014 pp. 35-43.
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Data driven channel modeling using spectrum measurements (with Shang-pin Sheng and Mingyan Liu), (to appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobil Computing ), 2015.
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RECENT PHD DISSERTATIONS
Stochastic Traffic Flow Modeling and Optimal Congestion Pricing, Li Yang, 2012,
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Three Esssays on Pricing and Risk Management in Industrial Practice, Jie Ning, 2013,
Dissertation
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Two Applications of Intelligent Transportation System, Hao Zhou, 2013,
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Three Studies on the Value and Risk of Higher Education, Katherina Best, 2013,
Dissertation
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HANDBOOK
BOOK
The book LINEAR PROGRAMMING: A MODERN INTEGRATED ANALYSIS by Romesh Saigal has been published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Information on the
preface
,
Table of Contents
and
ordering
can be obtained by clicking the appropriate item.
Review
by Yin Zhang in SIAM Reviews ( 38(1996), 711-712 ) appears here.
Review
by Bob Vanderbei in Interfaces ( 27(1997), 120-121 ) appears here.
Review
by Akiko Yoshsie in Optima ( 54(1997), 11 ) appears here.
COURSES DURING WINTER 2012
Material on course taught during Winter 2012 can only be accessed on ctools.
OTHER LINKS
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homepage on OR