Faculty Profiles

**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

Jin, T., & Novoa, C. M. (2021). NSF - Project Outcomes Report. Retrieved from www.research.gov

**Islam, S., Novoa, C. M., & Jin, T. (2021). A Two-Stage Stochastic Aggregate Production Planning Model with Renewable Energy Prosumers. In Proceedings of the 2021 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference & Expo (pp. 223–228).

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., Spencer, B. J., Hazlewood, L. C., & Ortiz, A. M. (2020). Spatial Visualization Skills Training at Texas State University to Enhance STEM Students Academic Success. In Proceedings of the 2020 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Virtual Conference. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/35200

Novoa, C. M. (2020). NSF - Project Outcomes Report. Retrieved from www.research.gov

**Runsewe, T., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Jin, T. (2020). Stochastic Model for Planning Distributed Wind Generation using Climate Analytics. In Proceedings of the 2019 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference & Expo (pp. 1775–1760).

*Anandhan, V., Perez, E., & Novoa Ramirez, C. M. (2020). A Simulation based Planning Methodology for Decreasing Patient Waiting Times in Pure Walk-in Clinics. International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS), 12(3), 33–54.

**Subramanayan, V., Jin, T., & Novoa Ramirez, C. M. (2020). Sizing a Renewable Microgrid for Flow Shop Manufacturing using Climate Analytics. Journal of Cleaner Production, 252, 1–15.

Ortiz, A. M., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Sriraman, V. (2019). A Collective Impact Model Towards Increasing STEM Major Student Retention. Journal of College Academic Support Programs (J-CASP), 2(2), 21–30.

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & **Flores, A. (2019). Optimizing the Tensile Strength for 3D Printed PLA Parts. In Proceedings of the Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (pp. 745–765).

**Pham, A., Jin, T., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Qin, J. (2019). A Multi-Site Production and Microgrid Planning Model for Net-Zero Energy Operations. International Journal of Production Economics, 218, 260–274.

Qasem, A. M., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., **Kolla, C. S., & *Coyle, S. (2018). High-Accuracy Scalable Solutions to the Dynamic Facility Layout Problem. Super Computing (SC18) - The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis Proceedings, 1–2. Retrieved from https://sc18.supercomputing.org/proceedings/tech_poster/poster_files/post169s2-file3.pdf

**Pham, A., Jin, T., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Temponi, C. C. (2018). A Prosumerism Approach to Production-Inventory Planning under Bi-directional Energy Flow. In International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain (ILS 2018) (pp. 1–8).

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., **Siddique, K., Guirguis, M. S., & *Tahsini, A. (2018). A Game-Theoretic Two-Stage Stochastic Programing Model to Protect CPS against Attacks. In IEEE 16th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (pp. 15–22).

Guirguis, M. S., Tahsini, A., Siddique, K., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., Moore, J., Julien, C., & Dunstatter, N. (2018). BLOC: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Orchestrate CPS against Cyber Attacks. In IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS).

*Reese, H., *Anandhan, V., Perez, E., & Novoa Ramirez, C. M. (2017). Improving Patient Waiting Time at a Pure Walk-In Clinic. In Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (pp. 2764–2773). Las Vegas, NV.

Novoa, C. M., & Romanella, S. M. (2017). NSF - Project Outcomes Report. Retrieved from www.research.gov

Jin, T., **Pham, A., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Temponi, C. C. (2017). A Zero-Carbon Supply Chain Model: Minimising Levelised Cost of Onsite Renewable Generation. Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, 18(2), 49–59.

Jin, T., **Pham, A., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Temponi, C. (2016). A Net-Zero Carbon Supply Chain Model: Minimizing Cost of Onsite Renewable Energy. In Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain (ILS 2016) Conference (pp. 1–8).

Romanella, S., & Novoa Ramirez, C. M. (2016). Keeping the “SPARK” Alive – Investigating Effective Practices in the Retention of Female Undergraduates in Engineering and Computer Science. In Proceedings of the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/25514

Novoa, C., Ortiz, A., & Talley, K. G. (2016). Multi-Disciplinary Summer Orientation Sessions for First-Year Students in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Physics, and Computer Science. In Proceedings of the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/25760

Talley, K. G., Ortiz, A. M., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Sriraman, V. (2016). Integrating an Introduction to Engineering Experience into an University Seminar Course. In Proceedings of the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference.

**Beauchamp, H., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Ameri, F. (2015). Supplier Selection and Order Allocation Based on Integer Programming. International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems (IJORIS), 6(3), 60–79.

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., Qasem, A. M., & **Chaparala, A. (2015). A SIMD Tabu Search Implementation for Solving the Quadratic Assignment Problem with GPU Acceleration. In Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE ’15) (pp. 1–8). https://doi.org/doi.acm.org/10.1145/2792745.2792758

Qasem, A. M., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., **Chaparala, A., & *Rishu, N. (2015). Autotuning GPU-accelerated Quadratic Assignment Problems (QAP) Solvers for Power and Performance. In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) (pp. 1–6).

**Chaparala, A., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Qasem, A. M. (2014). A SIMD Solution for the Quadratic Assignment Problem with GPU Acceleration. In Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE ’14) (pp. 1–8). https://doi.org/doi.acm.org/10.1145/2616498.2616521

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & **Mai, N. (2013). Facilities Layout at Micropower. In Decision Sciences Institute 44th Annual Meeting (pp. 671963-1–14).

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & **Pasham, S. (2013). Application for Scheduling Course Load for Current and Transfer Students at Texas State University. In Decision Sciences Institute 44th Annual Meeting (pp. 671910-1–20).

**Rashid, H., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., Hay, R., & Qasem, A. M. (2013). Algorithmic Choice in Optimization Problems: A Performance Study. Super Computing (SC13) - The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis Proceedings, 1. Retrieved from http://sc13.supercomputing.org/sites/default/files/PostersArchive/tech_posters/post133s2-file3.pdf

** Rashid, H., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., McKenney, M., & Qasem, A. M. (2012). Efficient Parallel Solutions to the Integral Knapsack Problem on Current Chip-multiprocessor Systems. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 27(1), 19–44.

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & **Mai, N. (2012). Facility Layout at McNeil Warehouse Goodwill Industries. In Decision Sciences Institute 43th Annual Meeting (pp. 37501–37514). Retrieved from https://decisionsciences.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/p581220.pdf

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Jin, T. (2011). Reliability Centered Planning for Distributed Generation Considering Wind Power Volatility. Electric Power Systems Research, 81(8), 1654–1661.

Jin, T., Tian, Z., & Novoa Ramirez, C. M. (2011). Managing Performance Based Logistics by Balancing Reliability and Spare Parts Stocking. In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance and Safety Engineering (ICQR2MSE) (pp. 1–6).

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., Tamir, D., & **Lowell, D. (2010). Tuning up the ISODATA Algorithm using Response Surface Methodology. In Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR) (pp. 262–269).

**Rashid, H., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Qasem, A. M. (2010). An Evaluation of Parallel Knapsack Algorithms on Multicore Architectures. In Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Super Computing (CSC’10) (pp. 230–235).

Tamir, D., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & **Lowell, D. (2010). Time Space Tradeoffs in Genetic Algorithm (GA) Based Feature Selection for Workload Characterization. In Twenty Third International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA-AIE 2010) (pp. 643–652).

Asiabanpour, B., *Vejandla, D. T., Jimenez, J., & Novoa Ramirez, C. M. (2009). Optimizing the Automated Plasma Cutting Process by Design of Experiments. International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing, 1(1), 19–40.

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Artiles-Leon, N. (2009). On the Distribution of the Usual Estimator of Cpk and Some Applications in Statistical Process Control (SPC). Quality Engineering, 21(1), 24–33.

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Mendez, F. A. (2009). Bootstrap Methods for Analyzing Time Studies and Input Data for Simulations. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management (IJPPM), 58(5), 460–479.

**Lowell, D., Lababidi, B., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Tamir, D. (2009). The Locality of Reference of Genetic Algorithms and Probabilistic Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR) (pp. 221–228).

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Storer, R. (2009). An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands. European Journal of Operational Research, 196(2), 509–515.

Asiabanpour, B., *Vejandla, D. T., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., Jimenez, J., & *Fisher, R. (2009). Optimizing the quality of parts manufactured by the automated plasma cutting process using response surface methodology. In International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (pp. 47–60).

**Dozier, S., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., **Preece, J., & **Bubela, C. (2008). A Study of the Laundry Services at the Central Texas Medical Center. In Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC) (pp. 475–480).

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Hickman, M. (2007). Static and Dynamic Approaches for Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands. Transportation Science, 41(3), 415–429.

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Storer, R. (2006). The Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands Combining Static and Dynamic Approaches. In Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC) (pp. 1–6).

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., Berger, R., Linderoth, J., & Storer, R. (2006). A Set-Partitioning Based Model for the Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem, 1–30. Retrieved from http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_FILE/2006/12/1542.pdf

Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Buechter, H. (2003). Sequencing Traversing Cars in a Warehouse using Ant-Colony Systems. In Proceedings of The Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC) (pp. 1–6).

Artiles, N., Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Domenech, C. (1995). Improving Fabric Finishing through Experimental Design. In Transactions, 49th Annual Quality Congress (pp. 952–961).

Toro-Ramos, Z., Bartolomei, S., & Novoa Ramirez, C. M. (1991). A Decomposition Approach for the Design of Manufacturing Systems with Centralized Work-In-Process Storage and Limited Buffers. In Proceedings of the 1991 NSF Design and Manufacturing Systems (pp. 745–753).