Dr. Lauren Davis
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Contact:
       Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
       404 McNair Hall
       NC A&T University, Greensboro, NC 27411
       Phone: (336) 334-7780, Ext. 518
       E-mail: lbdavis@ncat.edu 

Education:
   Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2005
    Master of Science in Industrial and Management Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic
    Bachelor of Science in Computational Mathematics, Rochester Institute of Technology

Research Interests:

• Supply chain optimization
  • Information sharing, Stochastic inventory theory, Disruption management, Applications of Markov Decision Processes with complete and partial information.
• Meta-heuristics
• Service Operations Management
• Emergency Response

Areas of Research Interest:
       The effects of zoning as a predetermined building constraint, buildings performance (energy and sustainability), the effects of building envelopes on the energy use of buildings, the cognitive process of building design, Afro centric architecture, innovations in distance learning, multimedia and information transfer, universal design principle.


Additional Info.: http://www.ncat.edu/~phase

Selected Publications:

1. Davis, L.B., King, R.E., Hodgson, T.J. and W. Wei, A Computationally Efficient Algorithm for Undiscounted Markov Decision Processes with Restricted Observations. Naval Research Logistics, 2007. Under Review.
   
   
2. Davis, L., Luster-Teasley,S., Samanlioglu,F. and L. Parrish, AggiEmentor: Improving the retention of undergraduates in STEM areas via e-mentoring, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference 2007, Honolulu, HI, June 2007.
   
   
3. Davis, L, Samanlioglu, F., Stanfield, P., and J. Davis, “Systemized Critical Chain Project Management with Application to Remanufacturing”, Proceedings of the Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference 2006, Orlando, Fl, May 2006.
   
   
4. Stanfield, P., Davis, L., Samanlioglu, F., and S. Udoka, “Dynamic Allocation of RFID memory across the product life cycle”, Proceedings of the Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference 2006, Orlando, Fl, May 2006.
   
   
5. Udoka, S., Davis, L, Samanlioglu, F., and P. Stanfield, “Application of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to Enhance Remanufacturing Operations”, Proceedings of the Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference 2006, Orlando, Fl, May 2006.
   
   
6. Berrings, L. and Y. Fathi, “Tabu Search for the Common Due Date Weighted Tardiness Problem”, Proceedings of the 31st Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, San Francisco, CA, February 2003.
   
   
7. Malmborg, C.J.; Berrings, L.M., “A decision support system for the design of batch manufacturing systems.” Proceedings of 1992 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Chicago, IL, October 1992.