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Marzieh Khakifirooz holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management and a Master's degree in Industrial Statistics from National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. She has notable practical experience through various global consultancies for high-tech industries. Her research interests include the application of optimization in smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0, decision-making, and automated teaching. She is an active member of the System Dynamic Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).
Expertise and Skills
- Decision Science
- Operations Research
- Industrial Engineering
- Social Sustainability
- Human-Algorithm Interaction
- Reliability Statistics
- Network Analysis
Consulting and projects with industry
Member of the System Dynamics Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).
Academic Publications
- Assessing resiliency in scale-free supply chain networks: a stress testing approach based on entropy measurements and value-at-risk analysis
- An Introduction to the Applications of Operations Research and Data Science in Disrupting Illicit Markets
- Reliability assessment of vehicle-to-vehicle communication networks through headway distribution and information propagation delay
- Scheduling in Industrial environment toward future: insights from Jean-Marie Proth
- Neural ordinary differential equation for sequential optimal design of fatigue test under accelerated life test analysis
- A review on statistical process control in healthcare: data-driven monitoring schemes
- Robust-heuristic-based optimisation for an engine oil sustainable supply chain network under uncertainty
- Impact of return leniency on retailers’ profit and social welfare in monopoly markets
- Hybrid tabu search algorithm for unrelated parallel machine scheduling in semiconductor fabs with setup times, job release, and expired times
- The impracticality of homogeneously weighted moving average and progressive mean control chart approaches
- Bi-objective optimization for customers’ satisfaction improvement in a Public Bicycle Sharing System
- The key factors to promote the pay-as-you-drive insurance in Taiwan
- The role of the normal distribution in statistical process monitoring
- An integrated queuing-stochastic optimization hybrid Genetic Algorithm for a location-inventory supply chain network
- Theory‐Based Failure Modes and Effect Analysis for Medication Errors
- Ambient-Intelligent Decision Support System (Am-IDSS) for Smart Manufacturing
- A hybrid genetic and Lagrangian relaxation algorithm for resource-constrained project scheduling under nonrenewable resources
- Model misspecification of generalized gamma distribution for accelerated lifetime-censored data
- Patient waiting time management through fuzzy based failure mode and effect analysis
- Optimization in large scale problems: Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 applications