Plenary Speakers
37th IEOM Industry Solutions and Industry 4.0
Speaker Registration Link: https://www.xcdsystem.com/IEOM/attendee/index.cfm?ID=2LQLkeY
IEOM Industry 4,0 will have a dedicated focus on:
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Big Data
- Data Analytics
- iCloud
- Cybersecurity
- Modeling, Simulation & Visualization
- Industrial Automation
- Integrated Systems
- Manufacturing Execution Systems
- Digital Factory
- PLM
- Digital Twin
- Digital Manufacturing
- Smart Mobility and
- related topics
IEOM Industry Solutions sessions will showcase the industrial case studies and their impacts of the industrial solutions using IE / OM tools and techniques (lean, six sigma, FMEA, simulation, design of experiments, optimization, TOC, PLM, CAE, statistical analysis, safety, reliability, etc.) IEOM 2023 Zambia Conference will have a dedicated session for the Industry Solutions where distinguished practitioners provide their presentations including their experiences and journey to be successful. Fifteen featured speakers will be from various part of the world to address industrial challenges and opportunities for continuous improvement and sustainability. Each speaker needs to submit a title of the talk, abstract and a short bio as well as power point presentation prior to the conference. If you are interested to be an industry speaker, please contact info@ieomsociety.org for details.
All speakers need to register and pay the registration fee for the 4th African IEOM Zambia Conference.
Distinguished Plenary Speakers
April 5, Wednesday
Industry Solutions I
8:00 – 9:45 am – Meeting Room 1 (Virtual)
Session Chair:
8:00 am – 8:20 am (Wednesday, April 5)
Dr. Norman Gwangwava
Senior Lecturer, Concurrent Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering Design, Manufacturing Information and Database Systems
Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST)
Palapye, Botswana
A professional Engineer with experience from industry and academia. He is currently a Senior lecturer at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), department of Mechanical, Energy and Industrial Engineering. Has key engineering competences in Modeling and Simulation with Arena and Simio; Business process modeling and analysis, and Lean Principles. Is an influencer and author in digital transformation and future tech trends: Big Data, IoT, Industry 4.0, and Blockchain. Research interests are in; Advanced Manufacturing, Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPS), Collaborative Product Design, and Big Data. He holds a DTech in Industrial Engineering from Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa and a Master of Engineering in Manufacturing Systems and Operations Management from the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe. He is a member of the SAIIE-Za and ZIE-Zw.
Teaching interests
- Manufacturing Systems
- Operations Management
- Supply Chain Engineering
- Advanced Manufacturing Processes
- Industrial Automation and Control
8:20 am – 8:40 am (Wednesday, April 5)
Prof Jackson Phiri
Senior Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
School of Natural Sciences,
University of Zambia
Lusaka, Zambia
Jackson Phiri is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, School of Natural Sciences and Graduate School of Business at The University of Zambia. He graduated with a Bachelor of Computer Science at the University of Zambia, a Masters of Science (Computer Science) from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa and a PhD in Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. His research interest include Applied Artificial Intelligence, Business Informatics, Information Security and ICT for Development. He currently supervises a more than 10 postgraduate students at masters and PhD levels and has graduated more than 50 postgraduate students. He has more than 15 years of lecturing and research at the higher institutions of learning and has more than 50 published peer reviewed articles.
8:40 am – 9:00 am (Wednesday, April 5)
Dr. Iftekhar Abubakar Karimi
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
College of Design and Engineering
National University of Singapore
4 Engineering Drive 4, E5 #02-09
Singapore
Iftekhar A Karimi is a Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He is a leading expert in the area of process systems engineering and optimization with a unique blend of experience from academia and industry. His current research interests include process modeling, simulation, and optimization, energy systems, energy integration, systems biology, carbon capture and utilization, decarbonization, hydrogen, and natural gas. He has worked on several practical issues related to the optimization of chemical, biological, and environmental systems, and led many industry-collaborative research projects. He led Singapore’s first roadmap on CCSU, is leading activities on natural gas at NUS, and is also working on a roadmap for hydrogen in the ASEAN region.
9:00 am – 9:20 am (Wednesday, April 5)
Dr. Jayakrishna Kandasamy
Professor
School of Mechanical Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology University
Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Dr. Jayakrishna is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Vellore Institute of Technology University, India. Dr. Jayakrishna’s research is focused on the design and management of manufacturing systems and supply chains to enhance efficiency, productivity and sustainability performance. More recent research is in the area of developing tools and techniques to enable value creation through sustainable manufacturing, including methods to facilitate more sustainable product design for closed-loop material flow in industrial symbiotic setup, and developing sustainable products using hybrid bio composites. He has mentored doctoral students, graduate and undergraduate students (3 Ph.D, 2 M.Tech Thesis and 34 B.Tech Thesis) which have so far led to 83 journal publications in leading SCI/ SCOPUS Indexed journals, 38 book chapters, and 96 refereed conference proceedings, 4 authored books, 11 edited books in CRC/Springer Series. Dr. Jayakrishna’s team has received numerous awards in recognition for the quality of the work that has been produced. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the manufacturing and industrial systems area and his initiatives to improve teaching effectiveness have been recognized through national awards. He has also been awarded Global Engineering Education Award from Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) Society International, U.S.A. in 2021, Institution of Engineers (India)-Young Engineer Award in 2019 and Distinguished Researcher Award in the field of Sustainable Systems Engineering in 2019 by International Institute of Organized Research, Best Faculty Researcher Award for the year(s) 2016-2021 consecutively. Coordinator -Circular Economy Club, VIT University, Academic Editor – Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Wiley-Hindawi Publications and Editorial Board Member – Journal of Operational Research for Engineering Management Studies (JOREMS), Green and Low-Carbon Economy, Area Editor – Operations Management Research, Associate Editor – Circular Economy, Frontiers in Sustainability, Book Series Editor – Industrial Engineering, Systems, and Management, CRC Press.
SPECIALIZATION(S)
Industrial symbiosis, Circular Economy, Industry 4.0, Sustainable Circular Supply Chain Management, Application of Machine learning and Blockchain in Supply Chain, Bio composites, Sustainable product design and development, Lean manufacturing, Industrial Engineering applications in Manufacturing process.
9:20 am – 9:40 am (Wednesday, April 5)
Dr. Umar Muhammad Modibbo Fior
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
Faculty of Physical Sciences
Modibbo Adama University, PMB 2076, Yola
Adamawa State, Nigeria
Dr Umar Muhammad Modibbo is a Lecturer at the Modibbo Adama University, Yola, Nigeria. He obtained his PhD. degree in Operations Research with a specialization in Applied Mathematical Programming and Computing, at the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He has 9 years experienced in teaching, research and community services.
He obtained his Master of Technology (M.Tech) and Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degrees in Operations Research at the Federal University of Technology, Yola, Nigeria (Now The Modibbo Adama University, Yola) in 2016 and 2010 respectively.
Dr. Modibbo is a recipient of university grant to study MSc. Operations Research in 2014, a Nigerian Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to study Ph.D. Operations Research in 2018. A recipient of a Young Researcher Award and Research Excellence Award from Institute of Scholars (InSc), India, 2020. A best Paper Presentation Award in an international Virtual Conference Jammu & Kasmir, India 2021, and Excellence Review Award from the Resources Conservation and Recycling Advances Journal by Elsevier.
His research areas include Mathematical Programming and its Applications, Reliability Optimization, Fuzzy Programming, Multi-objective Optimization, Inventory & Supply Chain Management, and Sustainable Development Goals.
He is a Fellow, and the President of the Institute for Operations Research of Nigerian [INFORN], a lifetime Member, African Federation of Operations Research Societies [AFROS], and International Federation of Operational Research Societies [IFORS]. He has published more than 30 research articles in journals of national and international repute, and attended many conferences and workshops in his domain area. He is a reviewer of many journals, served as advisory/program committee member in many international conferences, and editorial member of many journals.
April 5, Wednesday
Industry Solutions II
2:00 -3:45 pm – Meeting Room 1 (Virtual)
Session Chair: Dr. Moagabo Ragoasha
2:00 pm – 2:20 pm (Wednesday, April 5)
Dr. Funlade Sunmola
Department of Engineering and Technology
School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science
Centre for Engineering Research
Centre for Future Societies Research
University of Hertfordshire
UK
Funlade is a Principal Lecturer in Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering, a member of the School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire. He has close to 40 years post-qualification experience. He earned his first degree BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. He obtained Masters Degrees (MSc) in Industrial Engineering from the University of Ibadan and MA in Accounting and Finance from Birmingham City University. He studied Manufacturing Engineering (MPhil) at the University of Birmingham and earned his PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics) also from the University of Birmingham.
Funlade has several years of professional industrial and academic experience in higher education teaching and learning, consultancy and management having worked in a variety of sectors including civil engineering and construction, manufacturing, software development houses, and the National Health Service (NHS) UK. His current research interests lie in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Sustainable and Smart Industries of the Future. He has been involved with various research projects in a diverse range of contexts, e.g. electronic monitoring systems, products, manufacturing and operations intelligence, benchmarking of manufacturing and service operations; business process improvements and service transformations; SC21 – Supply chains of the twenty-first century; sequential decision making and optimised learning, and various performance modelling studies. He is especially interested in advances related to industry 4.0, the applications of advanced computing, information and communication technologies, and applied artificial intelligence. He has published several academic papers, and acted as referee, in the subject area. Funlade is a Prince2 Registered Practitioner – certified project manager.
2:20 pm – 2:40 pm (Wednesday, April 5)
Prof. Emenike C Ejiogu
Director, Africa Center of Excellence for Sustainable Power and Energy Development
Dean, Faculty of Engineering
University of Nigeria
2:40 pm – 3:00 pm (Wednesday, April 5)
Prof Daniel Mashao
University of Johannesburg
South Africa
3:00 pm – 3:20 pm (Wednesday, April 5)
Dr. Moagabo Ragoasha
Lecturer
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
3:20 pm – 3:40 pm (Wednesday, April 5)
Francis Masawi
Power Systems and Markets Operations Expert
Managing Director, Energy and Information Logistics Group Limited (EiL)
Harare, Zimbabwe
Francis Masawi is an Electrical Power Systems and Markets Operations Expert specializing in Project / Program Management (PM) activities, developmental interventions / business operations and good governance whose short-term Outputs are high performance standards of energy accessibility, reliability, security, and affordability. The outputs of the PM activities are inputs into a Results-based Management (RBM) system whose medium-term Outcomes are inclusive and sustainable social and economic development and growth, with long-term Impacts of improvement in Quality of Life as measured by the achievement of all the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Francis acquired extensive knowledge and experience in Electrical Power Systems and Market Operations in eastern and southern African countries over a period of four decades. He has concluded that the Old Way of thinking, which focuses on self-interests, is the root cause of the acute and induced Energy Poverty on the African continent characterised by poor governance, low standards of operational and financial performance, high indebtedness, and insolvency of state-owned national utilities in the energy sector. He intends to implement the Sustainable Energy Supply Initiative (SESI) which he developed based on a New Way of thinking that promotes critical thinking, nurtures leadership, and embraces the flow of energy and information, the most critical ingredients for social and economic development and growth, from points of origin to the points of utilisation to meet the requirements of users, also known as Energy and Information Logistics (EiL). The New Way EPS clarifies the roles of the key processes of market operations and administration, power generation, transmission, distribution, and utilisation to support the sustainable production of goods and services society demand and can afford as the source of revenues for the markets and a measure of economic development and growth. The New Way view of EPSs is based on results of feasibility studies carried out in Uganda, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, funded by the German government and that utilised an energy losses and associated CO2 reduction methodology approved by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Francis Masawi is a holder of an Honours Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe with particular focus in Electronics and Power Systems. He holds MBA certificates from Heriot Watt University in Economics and Organisational Behaviour.
April 5, Wednesday
Industry Solutions III
4:00 – 5:45 pm – Meeting Room 1 (Virtual)
Session Chair: Dr. Ali ElKamel, University of Waterloo, Canada
4:00 pm – 4:20 pm (Wednesday, April 5)
Dr. Hossam A. Gabbar, P.Eng.
Distinguished Lecturer IEEE NPSS
Director of Smart Energy Systems Lab
Ontario Tech University
Canada
Title: Resilient Energy and Transportation Infrastructures
Bio
Dr. Gabbar is a full Professor in the Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, and cross appointed in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, at Ontario Tech University (UOIT), where he has established the Energy Safety and Control Lab (ESCL), Smart Energy Systems Lab, and Advanced Plasma Engineering Lab. He is the recipient of the Senior Research Excellence Aware for 2016, UOIT. He is recognized among the top 2% of worldwide scientists with high citation in the area of energy. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE NPSS. He is leading national and international research in the areas of smart energy grids, energy safety and control systems, and waste to energy using advanced plasma technologies. Dr. Gabbar obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1988 with first class of honor from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University (Egypt). In 2001, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Okayama University (Japan). From 2001 till 2004, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), as a research associate. From 2004 till 2008, he joined Okayama University (Japan) as an Associate Professor, in the Division of Industrial Innovation Sciences. From 2007 till 2008, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. He also worked as process control, safety, and automation specialist in energy and oil & gas industries. Dr. Gabbar has more than 230 publications, including patents, books / chapters, journal, and conference papers.
Abstract:
This talk will present design and operation scenarios of resilient energy and transportation infrastructures. The talk will discuss development strategies of hybrid charging stations and their integration witihn energy and transportation infrastructures. The design and control strategies of fast charging stations will be presented with hybrid energy storage. Hardware-in-the-loop and real time simulation are used to evaluate the proposed design and implementation scenarios. Integrated nuclear-renewable hybrid energy systems using Small Modular Reactor (SMR) or Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) wihitn micro energy grids are used to achieve resilient energy supply within charging stations. Intergation betweeen hyrdogen and fuel cell systems are demonstrated to achieve hybrid charging stations and support the transition to clean transportation. Transactive mobility will be discussed to support the deployment of charging stations within energy and transportation infrastructures, as integrated with community applications in city, urban, and remote communities. Performance measures are modeled and evaluated for different design and operation strategies. Resiliency and performance measures will be discussed in view of number of operation and control strategies to meet user requirements.
4:20 pm – 4:40 pm (Wednesday, April 5)
Dr. Can Li
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
4:40 pm – 5:00 pm (Wednesday, April 5)
Sofia M. Vidalis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
School of Science, Engineering, and Technology
PENN STATE HBG
MIDDLETOWN, PA 17057, USA
Building Information Modeling: A Game Changer for Transportation
Dr. Sofia M. Vidalis is currently an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering and Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology Programs at Penn State Harrisburg (PSH). She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. Dr. Vidalis joined Penn State Harrisburg in 2006. Before joining Penn State, Dr. Vidalis worked at Florida Design Consultants as a
Transportation Engineer Vidalis’ current research interests include quality assurance in pavement construction and materials, specifications and construction variability of pavement materials, transportation planning and operations, construction management,
and building information modeling.
5:00 pm – 5:20 pm (Wednesday, April 5)
Greg Hutchins
Principal Engineer of Quality + Engineering, QualityPlusEngineering.com
Founder of Certified Enterprise Risk Manager® (CERM) Academy, 800Compete.com
Portland, Oregon, United States
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
5:20 pm – 5:40 pm (Wednesday, April 5)
Dr. Margaret L. Brandeau
Coleman F. Fung Professor of Engineering
Professor of Health Policy (by Courtesy)
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305, USA
Presentation Title: AI in Health Care: Promise Meets Reality
Bio
Margaret L. Brandeau is Coleman F. Fung Professor of Engineering and Professor of Health Policy (by Courtesy) at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the development of applied mathematical and economic models to support health policy decisions. Her recent work has examined HIV and drug abuse prevention and treatment programs, programs to control the opioid epidemic, and COVID-19 response strategies. She is a Fellow of INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) and a member of the Omega Rho Honor Society for Operations Research and Management Science. From INFORMS, she has received the Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award, the President’s Award (for contributions to the welfare of society), the Pierskalla Prize (for research excellence in healthcare management science, in two separate years), and the Award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research and the Management Sciences. She has also received the Award for Excellence in Application of Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, among other awards. At Stanford she has received the Eugene L. Grant Faculty Teaching Award from the School of Engineering and the Graduate Teaching Award from the Department of Management Science and Engineering. Professor Brandeau earned a BS in Mathematics and an MS in Operations Research from MIT, and a PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford.
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) has great potential to transform many aspects of health care – but despite this promise has only been implemented in a limited number of settings and in a limited way. This talk begins by discussing the potential of AI to transform health care in areas such as disease diagnosis and treatment, disease monitoring, patient monitoring and clinical outcome prediction, health care operations, and health care administration. We then outline the many reasons why this potential has not been realized. As a microcosm illustrating the state of AI applications, we describe a number of projects carried out at Lucile Packard Hospital Stanford. We conclude with thoughts about what is needed in order for AI to be successfully integrated into health care systems and the next steps that can be taken to advance implementation.
Past IEOM Industry Solutions / Industry 4.0
- 2015 Orlando Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2015 Dubai Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2016 Kuala Lumpur Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2016 Detroit Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2017 Bogota, Colombia – Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2017 Bristol, UK – Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2017 Rabat – Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2018 Pretoria – Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2018 Washington DC – Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2018 Paris – Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2018 Bandung – Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2019 Riyadh – Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2019 Toronto – Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2019 Pilsen – Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2019 Bangkok – Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2020 Dubai – Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2020 Detroit – Industry Solutions Speakers
- 2020 Harare, December
- 2021 Singapore, March
- 2021 Sao Paulo, April
- 2021 Haiti, June
- 2021 Harbin, China, July
- 2021 Rome, Italy
- 2021 Bangalore, India
- 2021 Indonesia
- 2021 Monterrey, Mexico
- 2022 Istanbul
- 2022 Nigeria
- 2022 Orlando
- 2022 Paraguay
- 2022 Rome
- 2022 Warangal, India / Hyderabad, India
- 2022 Johor Baru, Malaysia
- 2022 Sydney, Australia
- 2022 Dhaka, Bangladesh
- 2023 Manila – Annual
- 2023 Zambia – African
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