Drug efflux and P-glycoprotein Over time, cancerous cells have the ability to become resistant to treatments such as chemotherapy through several mechanisms. One of them is drug efflux, an otherwise useful body mechanism that protects normal cells by ensuring the intracellular drug concentration stays below a cell-killing threshold. Drug efflux is possible thanks to proteins… Read More »
Probabilistic Prediction of Post-disaster Functionality Loss of Community Building Portfolios Considering Utility Disruptions I am proud to announce that the latest collaborative work from the CORE lab has been accepted for publication in the ASCE’s Journal of Structural Engineering. The new paper title is a mouthful, “Probabilistic Prediction of Post-disaster Functionality Loss of Community Building… Read More »
OU NOC Tour I was happy to represent the Analytics Lab recently as a part of a larger team from OU who were invited down to Dallas, TX near Love Field to meet with Southwest Airlines (SWA) to learn more about the airline business and operations. The attendees from OU included the Vice President… Read More »
Centerville Special Edition in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Enhancing community resilience in the future will require new interdisciplinary systems-based approaches that depend on many disciplines, including engineering, social and economic, and information sciences. The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning to Colorado State University and nine other… Read More »
The Analytics Lab at OU has joined forces with Naiyu Wang and Amy Cerato (Civil Engineering and Environmental Science) to create a new joint research lab, the Community Resilience CORE Research Lab. The new lab space will house up to 8 PhD students and Post-Docs (6 spots already filled!) The lab space is on the 4th… Read More »
Two abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the 2016 Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference to be held at Vanderbilt University May 22-25, 2016 in Nashville. This work is a collaborative effort of Weili Zhang, Naiyu Wang, and Charles Nicholson. Resilience-Based Risk Mitigation and Recovery for Highway Transportation Networks The resilience of robust, large-scale, interdependent civil… Read More »
This week at the analytics lab have made some great progress with respect to research productivity. We have one major revision re-submitted to an excellent journal. As well as a major collaborative article written to define a new sub-field of study within the area of resilience. Objective Scaling Ensemble Approach for Integer Linear Programming Dr. Nicholson… Read More »
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 »