HYEONG SUK NA
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Missouri
HYEONG SUK NA, PH.D.
("Hyeong Suk" is my first name)
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Director of the Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Systems (SSRS) Laboratory
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
Office: E3437B Thomas & Nell Lafferre Hall | Phone: (573) 882-9185
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I am always looking for opportunities for research collaborations with both academic and industry partners. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have ideas or problems to discuss with my research group.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023 - Present Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Missouri
2019 - 2023 Ervin Pietz Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines
2015 - 2019 Instructor / Graduate Teaching Assistant, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
2014 - 2019 Graduate Research Assistant, Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Analytics (Director: Soundar Kumara, Ph.D.), Pennsylvania State University
2017 Operations Research Intern, Department of Operations Research, Norfolk Southern Corporation
2012 - 2014 Graduate Research Assistant, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Texas A&M University
2008 - 2010 Operations Research Analyst, Department of Air Transportation and Logistics, The Korea Transport Institute (KOTI)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Pennsylvania State University, 2019
M.S. in Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2014
B.S., M.Eng. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Inha University, 2008
RESEARCH INTEREST
My research interests include large-scale optimization and decision analysis, stochastic networks and simulation modeling, and artificial intelligence and machine learning, with applications to smart and sustainable systems. I am particularly interested in improving the resilience of large-scale transportation and supply chain or logistics systems, developing emergency management planning under uncertainty, and designing sustainable systems that matter to society.
SELECTED GRANTS
Co-PI, Data-driven Disruptive Event Modeling to Improve Operational Resilience in Modernized and Decarbonized Smart Grids, Mizzou College of Engineering Seed Grant, 2024 - 2025.
PI, Optimal Deployment of Capacitated Fast Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles on a Directed Highway Network, Mizzou Research Council Grant, 2024 - 2025.
PI, Disaster Assessment from Satellite Imagery using Improved Generative Adversarial Network and UNet, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) EPSCoR Research Initiation Grant (RIG), 2022 - 2024.
PI, An Integrated Simulation-based Optimization Model for Solving Multi-Objective Dynamic Facility Layout Problems, Black Hills Stock Show Foundation, 2022 - 2023.
PI, Collaborative Research: Leveraging the Resilience and Recovery through the Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Data-Driven Aerial Imagery, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) EPSCoR Research Grant, 2020 - 2023.
TEACHING INTEREST
I have a strong record of teaching various courses in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research such as Deterministic/Stochastic Models in Operations Research, Convex Optimization, Data Analytics for Engineering and Technology, Simulation Modeling for Decision Support, Probability Theory and Statistics, Forecasting in Business and Technology, Introduction to Engineering Analytics, Regression Analysis and Design of Experiments, Manufacturing System Design and Analysis, Production and Operations Management, Statistical Quality Control, and Six Sigma Methodology, to name a few.
RECENT NEWS
04/2024: Dr. Na has been selected to receive an NSF Travel Award for the 2024 NSF Operations and Systems Engineering Extreme Events Research (OSEER) Workshop: Operations Engineering for Hazard and Disaster Mitigation.
03/2024: Dr. Na has received funding from the Mizzou College of Engineering for a seed grant focusing on Data-driven Disruptive Event Modeling to Improve Operational Resilience in Modernized and Decarbonized Smart Grids.
03/2024: Dr. Na has received funding from the Mizzou College of Engineering for a seed grant focusing on Cyber-Physical Security AI-based Smart Grid Management.
03/2024: Dr. Na has been accepted into the Learning and Expanding Abilities for Professoriate Cohort Fellows Program (LEAP) for Early-Career Faculty at Mizzou.
03/2024: Dr. Na has been selected as the board director member for the IISE Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Division, which is primarily interested in the theory, methodology, and practice in all technical areas that develop or apply to data analytics and information systems.
02/2024: The Mizzou Provost Office has awarded $85,000 to the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. The overall goal is to support an integrated approach to upgrading the technology platform for almost half of the Industrial and Systems Engineering undergraduate curriculum. This project is led by Dr. James Noble who is a professor and chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Dr. Na is serving as one of the Co-PIs.
01/2024: Dr. Na has been invited as a speaker by the Graduate Research Seminar on Operations Research and Data Analytics in the Department of Supply Chain and Analytics at the University of Missouri at St. Louis to present his recent research on large-scale stochastic optimization for emergency management planning.
12/2023: Martin Cueto joined our research group. Welcome aboard!
11/2023: Dr. Na's paper "Relocation and Social Support during Large-Scale Evacuations" has been accepted by Natural Hazards Review. 🌐
10/2023: Dr. Na organized a session "TB75: Emerging Topics for Electric Vehicles" and gave an invited presentation "Stochastic Evacuation Route Planning for Electric Vehicles" at the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
10/2023: Younggyu's paper "The Production Scheduling Problem Employing Non-Identical Parallel Machines with Due Dates Considering Carbon Emissions and Multiple Types of Energy Sources" has been accepted by Expert Systems with Applications. Congratulations! 🌐
09/2023: Dr. Na has received a research grant from the Mizzou Research Council [Article: Fostering faculty inquiry and creativity].
09/2023: Justin Cypress and Karolina Rapacz joined our research group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
08/2023: Dr. Na created the SSRS (Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Systems) Laboratory in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Missouri.
08/2023: Dr. Na joined the University of Missouri as a tenure-track assistant professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering [Article: New faculty share why they chose Mizzou].
07/2023: Dr. Na has been selected to receive an NSF Travel Award for the 2023 Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Workshop for Early-Career Faculty.
06/2023: Dr. Na has been selected to receive an NSF Travel Award for the 2023 Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Summer Institute for Early-Career Faculty.