Vocational History

1967-70 Instructor, Mathematics Department,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

1970-76 Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

1975-76 Management Science Faculty,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

1976-78 Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department,
University of Alabama at Birmingham

1978-present Tenured Associate Professor, Mathematics
Department, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Educational History

1963 M.S.I.E.(Operation Research), Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

1970 Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

Research Areas

1. Fuzzy Sets/Fuzzy Logic
2. Operations Research

Awards/Honors/Grants

1. Fulbright Fellowship (1961), University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

2. CMC contract with the Center for Industrial Research ($111,000, 1981).

3. Best applications paper 1979 National Meeting American
Institute Decision Sciences(with A. Kvanli).

4. Research grant with Oak Ridge National Lab(1981-1985).

5. Visiting Professor, Ibaraki University, Japan (summer 1991,1992).
Visiting Professor, Meiji University, Japan (summer 1998, 2000).

6. Recipient of visiting scholars: Dr.Lin(PR China); Y.Qu(PR China); Cai XunWu (PR China);
Dr. Eslami(Iran); Dr. T. Feuring (Germany); Amin Yan (PR China); Dr. Choi (Korea)

7. Visiting Professor,UNSW,Sydney,Australia,Fall,1995.

8. Research Associate on Small Business Innovation Research Grant for $98,136
Dept. Health and Human Services, Oct.1 1995 to March 31 1996.
Title:"Development and Test of a Fuzzy-Logic Decision Support Tool".
Grant # 1-R43-NR03865-01A1.

9. Research Associate on Small Business Innovation Research Grant, for $249,333
National Institutes of Health, Sept. 97 to Sept. 99.
Title: "Pulmonary Artery Catheter Alarm System".
Grant # 9-R44-RR13160-02   

Professional Societies/Positions

A. Professional Societies:
    1. Member: AMS, NAFIPS.
   2. Positions:
       (a) Southeastern Section of SIAM
            (i) Secretary/Treasurer 1980
            (ii) President 1981
        (b) AL Assoc. of College Teachers of Math.
             (i) Vice President 1979
            (ii) President 1980
        (c) AL Section of TIMS/ORSA
              Secretary/Treasurer, Editor of the Newsletter (1982-1986)
        (d) Committees:
               (i) Geographical Sections Committee, Operations Research
                     Society of America 1985.
        (e) Board of Directors NAFIPS, 1990-1993.

B. Journals:
     1. Associate Editor of the Operations Research Society of America's
         Journal ORSA Journal on Computing (1/89 -4/92).
     2. Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
        (11/92-11/99).
     3. Associate Editor of Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making
        (Fall 2000-present).
     4. Editor Itanian J. Fuzzy Systems.
     5. Editor  New Mathematics and Natural Computation.

Community Service

A. President: St. Vincent DePaul Society (1987-1994).
     Parish Council at Cathedral of St. Paul (1992-1994).

B. Active member of Alabama Council of Teachers of Mathematics (high
     school mathematics teachers organization), 1977-86.

C. Consultant (recently)
    1. Wallace Games
    2. Horn and Associates
    3. Jefferson County Personnel Board
 
 

Updated August, 2005.