Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured grants
- Dong, Wenquan (Principal), Novoa Ramirez, Clara M (Co-Principal), Mandal, Sujata (Co-Principal). Assisting Food Waste Monitoring and Management in Central Texas Rural Communities, Department of Agriculture, Federal, $163000. (Submitted: January 1, 2024, Funded: October 1, 2024 - December 30, 2025). Grant.
- 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.
- Novoa Ramirez, Clara M (Principal). Identifying and evaluating the most effective actions to prepare Puerto Rico’s primary ports and freight road transportation infrastructure for flooding disruptions using stochastic models., CREATE University Transportation Center (UTC) - Center Lead: Texas State University, Federal, $100000. (Submitted: September 29, 2025, Funded: January 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027). 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.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Rahman, M. A., Kuhel, M. T., & Novoa Ramirez, C. M. (2025). A Two-Stage Stochastic Optimization Framework for Environmentally Sensitive Oil Spill Response Resource Allocation in the Arctic. ArXiv (pp. 1–18). Retrieved from https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2511.22218
- **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.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: INFORMS Senior Member, The Institute for the Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). September 19, 2024 - Present
- Award / Honor Recipient: H-LSAMP Mentor Recognition Letters, H-LSAMP. May 2016 - December 2025
- 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
Featured service activities
- Reviewer / Referee
Supply Chain Forum an International Journal
- Co-Chair
Facilitator of the Fall 2026 visit of a professor from Pforzheim University to teach IE 4399G Special Topics in Project Management
- Volunteer
City of San Marcos Resource Recovery Division - Neighborhood Resource Leader
- Member
School Curriculum Committee
- Member
INFORMS Committee on Teaching and Learning (CTL)
- Other
IE Program Coordinator