("Hyeong Suk" is my first name)
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Director, Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Systems (SSRS) Laboratory
Core Faculty, MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics (MUIDSI)
Core Faculty, Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution (CELDi)
Affiliated Faculty, Quantum Innovation Center (QIC)
Affiliated Faculty, Cyber Education, Research and Infrastructure (CERI) Center
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
Office: E3437L Thomas & Nell Lafferre Hall | Phone: (573) 882-9185
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06/2026: Our paper "Collaborative truck-drone delivery optimization in humanitarian logistics for vulnerable populations: An improved adaptive large neighborhood search" has been accepted by Safety Science. 🌐
05/2026: Our paper "Complex multi-stage production scheduling with unrelated parallel machines under carbon regulation: Balancing cost efficiency and carbon emissions" has been accepted by Computers & Industrial Engineering. 🌐
05/2026: Our paper "Optimizing facility locations and shuttle routes for senior welfare centers in aging societies: A priority-based approach" has been accepted by Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 🌐
04/2026: Michael's proposal for the Quantum Innovation Center Summer Internship Program has been selected for funding.🎉 Congratulations to Michael on this exciting achievement!👍 I look forward to working with Michael this summer on his project, "Toward Hybrid Quantum-Classical Optimization for Stochastic Hydrothermal Unit Commitment."
04/2026: Our paper "A mixed integer quadratically constrained programming model for optimal deployment of capacitated fast-charging stations for electric vehicles: A Bayesian optimization approach" has been accepted by Optimization and Engineering. 🌐
03/2026: Our paper "Multi-period large-scale electric vehicle charging station deployment under latent charging demand: A Bayesian optimization-based large neighborhood search approach" has been accepted by Expert Systems with Applications. 🌐
02/2026: Our paper "An integrated framework for solving the green supplier selection and order allocation problem in steam procurement" has been accepted by Expert Systems with Applications. 🌐
02/2026: Our paper "A parcel consolidation policy for vehicle routing plans in last-mile delivery: A deep Q-learning approach" has been accepted by European Journal of Industrial Engineering. 🌐
01/2026: George DeSpain has joined our research group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
01/2026: Dr. Na has been appointed as a core faculty member of the MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics (MUIDSI), which is an interdisciplinary research and graduate education program offering a PhD in Informatics and an MS in Data Science & Analytics.
12/2025: Dr. Na has received funding from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a research grant focusing on Decision-Support Models for Resilient Food Supply Chains under Uncertain Disruptions.
11/2025: Riley Powell has joined our research group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
10/2025: Michael presented his research, "Optimal hurricane evacuation routing with private and public vehicles: A joint chance-constrained stochastic programming model," at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. Great job, Michael!👍
10/2025: Shivam presented his research projects, (1) "Keypoint-aware human body part segmentation via a dual-discriminator generative adversarial network" and (2) "Post-disaster damage assessment from high-resolution satellite imagery using D-LinkNet hierarchical transformer with radon-transformed fixed positional encoding," at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. Great job, Shivam!👍
09/2025: Dr. Na has received funding from the Jungseok Logistics Foundation (JLF) for a research grant focusing on Integrated Deep Reinforcement Learning and Large-Scale Optimization for Enhancing Last-Mile Logistics with Future Mobility Technologies.
08/2025: Our paper "A strategic plan to provide management services for urban green spaces during heat waves using a collaborative truck-and-robot system" has been accepted by Expert Systems with Applications. 🌐
07/2025: Our paper "Optimal routing strategies for last-mile delivery with a fleet of a truck and heterogeneous robots" has been accepted by Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 🌐
07/2025: Michael's research presentation, "Optimal hurricane evacuation routing with private and public vehicles: A joint chance-constrained stochastic programming model," has been accepted by the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Congratulations!👍
06/2025: Congratulations to RJ for winning 1st place in the IISE DAIS (Data Analytics and Information Systems) Mobile/Web App Competition! Well deserved! Proud of your hard work and achievement! 🎉
05/2025: Our paper "Clustering Electricity Consumption Patterns using Functional Data Analysis" has been accepted by Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks. 🌐