Dr. Jose A. Ventura
Professor
356 Leonhard Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-3841 / Fax: 814-863-4745
E-mail: jav1@psu.edu
Profile
Professor Ventura teaches courses in operations research, production scheduling, and facility layout/material handling. Throughout his career, Dr. Ventura has developed a number of decomposition and Lagrangian dual algorithms to solve large-scale network design and equilibrium models, which comprise numerous applications in telecommunication systems design, congestion analysis in traffic networks, and planning of production-distribution systems. In the past, he has also worked on several logistics problems for JIT production systems, including machine sequencing and scheduling with non-regular performance measures. He is currently interested in multi-stage inventory models with two modes of transportation and joint replenishment costs with application to supply chain networks.
Education
Ph.D. , Industrial Engineering, University of Florida
M.E. , Operations Research, University of Florida
B.S. , Industrial Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalunya (Spain)
Honors and Awards
Fellow Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 2004
PSES Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 1994
Computer and Information Systems Division Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 1991
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1990
Research Interests
Applied Optimization - Network Flow Analysis, Communication Networks Design, Facility Layout and Location
Production Management - Scheduling, Inventory/Materials Management, Material Handling, Supply Chain Management
Applied Probability - Stochastic Modeling and Analysis, Stochastic Petri Nets, Queueing
Machine Vision - Computational Geometry, CAD-based Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Shape Matching, Automated Inspection
Memberships
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
Selected Publications
Ventura, J.A. and C. Lee. Optimally Locating Multiple Dwell Points in a Single Loop Guide Path System. IIE Transactions 35 3 (2003) 727-737.
Ventura, J.A. and S. Radhakrishnan. Single Machine Scheduling with Symmetric Earliness and Tardiness Penalties. European Journal of Operational Research 144 3 (2003) 598-612.
Yoon, S.H. and J.A. Ventura. An Application of Genetic Algorithms to Lot-Streaming Flow Shop Scheduling. IIE Transactions 34 2 (2002) 779-787.
Lee, S. and J.A. Ventura. An Algorithm for Constructing Minimal c-Broadcast Networks. Networks 38 1 (2001) 6-21.
Yee, S.T., W. Wan and J.A. Ventura. 3-D Localization and Feature Recovering through CAD-based Stable Pose Calculation. Pattern Recognition Letters 22 (2001) 105-121.
Yee, S.T. and J.A. Ventura. Phase-Type Approximation of Stochastic Petri Nets for Analysis of Manufacturing Systems. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 16 3 (2000) 318-322.
Ventura, J.A. and D. Kim. Parallel Machine Scheduling about an Unrestricted Due Date and Additional Resource Constraints. IIE Transactions 32 2 (2000) 147-153.
Dinneen, M.J., J.A. Ventura, M.C. Wilson and G. Zakeri. Compound Constructions of Minimal Broadcast Networks. Discrete Applied Mathematics 93 (1999) 205-232.