Operations research and analytics conference Prof. Charles Nicholson and Weili Zhang will be attending the 2015 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia November 1-4 . This conference is one of the top opportunities to connect with leading researchers and practitioners in the field of operations research (OR), management sciences (MS), and analytics. Approximately 5,000 attendees comprised… Read More »
Recruiting for research! The Analytics Lab is currently recruiting a MS or PhD student to work on 2 year sponsored research from Nerd Kingdom collaboratively with SMU Guildhall. The project is a data intensive, data science project that requires significant analytical skills and creative thinking. Nerd Kingdom is a video game technology and research group that is interested… Read More »
A article in the Norman Transcript just came out on the recent NSF Resilience Analytics grant award to OU. See full article here: OU Prof Leads NSF Grant The project, led by my colleague Dr. Kash Barker, is bringing “data science” to bear on a very complex and important problem: Our infrastructure systems (e.g. power,… Read More »
col·lab·o·rate /kəˈlabəˌrāt/ verb work jointly on an activity, especially to produce or create something Research teams from the University of Oklahoma, Colorado State University, and Texas A&M all met recently for a two-day research meeting in Fort Collins, CO. The researchers met to discuss and define multiple optimization problems that integrate physical infrastructure, economic impacts, and… Read More »
Dr. Nicholson is a volunteer for and executive member of a recently formed charitable organization “Luggage with Love” that supports foster children and families in and around Norman, Oklahoma. Foster children are placed, sometimes as emergency placements with little warning, in temporary homes. These children are not at fault — the reasons for their placements vary,… Read More »