Faculty

Department Chair

Vincent K Omachonu

Interim Dean, College of Engineering
Professor & Chair
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

(305) 284-2372
Vincent Omachonu, an award-winning expert and author in the field of healthcare quality management, serves as chair of the University of Miami College of Engineering’s Department of Industrial Engineering. Omachonu received the IBM Faculty Award. He also is a master black belt in Lean Six Sigma Quality Methodology. He earned his...

Murat Erkoc

Professor
Associate Chair

(305) 284-4477
Operations Research, Supply Chain Management, Production Systems, Logistics, Simulation

Faculty


Mario G. Beruvides

Professor Prof. Practice

Mario G. Beruvides is a faculty member in the University of Miami Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Before joining the University of Miami, he served for 30 years as a faculty member in the Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering Department at Texas Tech University, where he developed a national and international...

Jaime H Buitrago

Capstone Lecturer

(305) 284-2831
Jaime Buitrago, P.E., is a professional with experience spanning engineering, technology and business development. He earned a doctorate in industrial engineering from the University of Miami, where his research focused on artificial neural networks and machine learning for energy forecasting. With more than two decades of experience, Buitrago...

Nurcin Celik

Professor & Associate Dean for Research

(305) 284-2391
Energy systems for smart cities Decision making under uncertainty Dynamic-data-driven modeling and simulation Distributed and hybrid modeling paradigms Computationally feasible analysis of massive datasets Machine learning and clustering Bayesian inferencing and particle filtering methodologies Epigenetic modeling for pathway...

Cheng-Bang Chen

Asst. Professor

(305) 284-2367
Cheng-Bang Chen is an assistant professor in the University of Miami Department of Industrial Engineering. He earned a dual-title doctorate in industrial engineering and operations research from Pennsylvania State University and master’s degrees in statistics from Columbia University and industrial engineering from National Taiwan...

Murat Erkoc

Professor
Associate Chair

(305) 284-4477
Operations Research, Supply Chain Management, Production Systems, Logistics, Simulation

Ye Hu

Asst. Professor

Ye Hu is an assistant professor in the University of Miami Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She earned a doctorate from Virginia Tech in 2021. Following the completion of her doctorate, Hu served as a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University and North Carolina State University. Her research interests span unmanned...

Adam Meyers

Asst. Professor

Adam Meyers is an assistant professor in the University of Miami Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. His research focuses on developing fundamental and data-driven methodologies for the monitoring, modeling and analysis of complex systems and networks. His work supports research objectives in reliability engineering, process...

Nina DeCario Miville

Professor Prof. Practice

(305) 284-6225
Work Design, Financial Management, Productivity Management, Management Decision Making

Ramin Moghaddass

Associate Professor

(305) 284-9505
Ramin Moghaddass is an associate professor in the College of Eningeering's Department of Industrial Engineering. Dr. Moghaddass studies complex, sensor-driven engineered systems. He develops a new generation of flexible and large-scale models for real-time system health monitoring inspired by dynamic structures...

Vincent K Omachonu

Interim Dean, College of Engineering
Professor & Chair
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

(305) 284-2372
Vincent Omachonu, an award-winning expert and author in the field of healthcare quality management, serves as chair of the University of Miami College of Engineering’s Department of Industrial Engineering. Omachonu received the IBM Faculty Award. He also is a master black belt in Lean Six Sigma Quality Methodology. He earned his...

Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers

Tamer H. Elattar

Lecturer

Tamer H. Elattar, Ph.D., is a health care management and industrial engineering professional with more than 18 years of experience in health care management, optimization and transformation. A certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, he has focused on driving efficiency and operational excellence in surgical, clinical and ancillary services....

Luis Gonzalez

Lecturer

(305) 243-6854
Luis A. Gonzalez, DBA, CPA, CMA, is a finance executive, educator and certified public accountant with extensive experience in corporate finance, health care finance, financial planning and analysis, and strategic decision-making. Throughout his career, Gonzalez has led financial transformations, implemented enterprise business intelligence and...

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