Faculty Profiles

Dr. Clara M Novoa Ramirez

Professor — Ingram School of Engineering

IGRM 2203

phone: (512) 245-1826

cn17@txstate.edu

Linear optimization, non-linear optimization, heuristic optimization

Stochastic and Dynamic Programming applied to Renewable Energy Optimization, Supply Chain, Logistics and Healthcare

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

**Hassan, J., & Novoa Ramirez, C. M. (2023). A Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Model to Plan for the Central Texas Food Bank’s Inventory Management after COVID-19. In 54th Decision Science Institute Annual Conference.
Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Qasem, A. M. (2023). GPU-accelerated Parallel Solutions to the Quadratic Assignment Problem. ArXiv, 1–25. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11248
**Islam, M. F., Novoa, C. M., & Mendez, F. A. (2023). Planning Distributed Generation Systems Powered with Wind Turbines using a Stochastic Programming Model. In Proceedings of the 2023 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference & Expo (pp. 1–6). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21872/2023IISE_1860
*Lin, H., Jin, T., & Novoa Ramirez, C. M. (2023). Facility and Microgrid Location-Allocation for Integrated Supply Chain and Transactive Energy Operations. Applied Mathematical Modeling, 119, 119–136.
**Islam, S. R., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Jin, T. (2022). Multi-Facility Aggregate Production Planning with Prosumer Microgrid: A Two-Stage Stochastic Program. Journal of Cleaner Production, 367, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132911

Award / Honor Recipient: First Place - INFORMS Annual Student Poster Competition, INFORMS Minority Issues Forum (MIF). October 24, 2021
Award / Honor Recipient: INFORMS Minority Issues Forum (MIF) member selected to highlight in the Member Spotlight section of the Fall 2021 INFORMS MIF Newsletter, INFORMS MIF. October 22, 2021
Award / Honor Recipient: 2021 College Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, Texas State University. August 20, 2021
Award / Honor Recipient: H-LSAMP Mentor Recognition Letters, H-LSAMP. May 2016 - May 2018
Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi Honor Society. November 13, 2017

Novoa Ramirez, Clara M (Principal). One-Time Fee Funding Student Service Fee Reserves, Student Service Fee Committee (SSFC) Texas State University, $1219. (Funded: 2011). Grant.
Jin, Tongdan (Principal), Novoa Ramirez, Clara M (Co-Principal). ME-GREEN: Manufacturing for Environment by Generating Renewable Energy in Enterprise Networks, NSF Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET), Federal, $199000. (Funded: July 15, 2017 - June 30, 2021). Grant.
Qasem, Apan Muhammad, Novoa Ramirez, Clara M. High-performance QAP Solvers on the POWER8, IBM Corporation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $22500. (Funded: May 2017 - Present). Grant.
Ortiz, Araceli (Principal), Close, Eleanor (Co-Principal), Guirguis, Mina (Co-Principal), Novoa, Clara (Co-Principal), Talley, Kimberly Grau (Co-Principal). Texas State STEM Rising Stars, National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program, Federal, $1500000. (Funded: January 1, 2015 - January 31, 2020). Grant.
Ortiz, Araceli (Principal), Close, Eleanor (Co-Principal), Guirguis, Mina (Co-Principal), Novoa, Clara (Co-Principal), Talley, Kimberly Grau (Co-Principal). Texas State STEM Rising Stars, National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program, Federal, $1500000. (Funded: January 1, 2015 - January 31, 2020). Grant.

Chair

Ingram School of Engineering Awards Committee

November 2023-Present

Member

2023 INFORMS Early Career Teaching Network (ECTN)

July 19, 2023-Present

Member

INFORMS Committee on Teaching and Learning (CTL)

July 19, 2023-Present

IE Program Coordinator

August 22, 2022-Present

Member

Annual Review Committee for Evaluation of the Ingram School of Engineering Faculty

December 20, 2021-Present