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Mohammad R. Oskoorouchi

Associate Professor

Department of Information Systems and Operations Management (ISOM)

College of Business Administration
California State University San Marcos
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd.
San Marcos, California 92096-0001 USA
Tel: 760-750-4219
Fax: 760-750-4250
email: moskooro@csusm.edu

Education

Ph.D. (2002) in Management Science , Faculty of Management of McGill University , Montréal, Québec, Canada. My thesis advisor was professor Jean-Louis Goffin

M.S. (1995) in Applied Mathematics, Sharif University of Technology , Tehran , Iran.

B.Sc. (1993) in Applied Mathematics, Dept. of Mathematics, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

Teaching

MBA Courses

Statistics (BA 615)
Management Science (BA 625)

Managerial Model Building (BA 669)
Master Project Course (BA 680)
Management Decision Analysis (BGA 501)

Undergraduate Courses

Decision Models (HTM 406)
Business Statistics (BUS 304)
Business Statistics (BUS 304 - Hybrid)
Productions & Operations Management (HTM 305)
Senior Experience Problem Solving (BUS 493)

Research interest

Interior point methods
Semidefinite and conic optimization
Analytic center cutting plane method (ACCPM)
Large scale optimization
Nondifferentiable optimization

Theses

Mohammad R. Oskoorouchi, "The analytic center cutting plane method with semidefinite cuts", Doctoral Dissertation, Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 2002.
Mohammad R. Oskoorouchi, "A modification on Newton method based on the trust region approach", Master Thesis, College of Mathematical Sciences, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, December 1995.

Publications

M. R. Oskoorouchi, H. R. Ghaffari, T. Terlaky, D. M. Aleman, "An interior point constraint generation algorithm for semi-infinite optimization with healthcare application", Revised February 2010.
K. G. Murty and M. R. Oskoorouchi, "Sphere methods for LP", Algorithmic Operations Research, Vol. 5, 2010, pp. 21 – 33.
K. G. Murty and M. R. Oskoorouchi, "Note on implementing the new sphere method for LP using matrix inversions sparingly", Optimization Letters, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2009, pp. 137 – 160.
M. R. Oskoorouchi, "On complexity of a cutting plane method for semi-infinite linear programming", Technical Report, College of Business Administration, California State University San Marcos, 2007.
M. R. Oskoorouchi and J. E. Mitchell, "A second-order cone cutting surface method: complexity and application", Computational Optimization and Applications, Vol. 43 No. 3, 2009, pp. 379--409.
M. R. Oskoorouchi and J.-L. Goffin, "A matrix generation approach for eigenvalue optimization", Mathematical Programming, Vol. 109, No 1, 2007, pp. 155--179.
M. R. Oskoorouchi and J.-L. Goffin, "An interior point cutting plane method for convex feasibility problem with second-order cone inequalities", Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 30, No. 1, February 2005, pp. 127--149.

M. R. Oskoorouchi and J.-L. Goffin , “The analytic center cutting plane method with semidefinite cuts”, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Vol. 13, No 4, 2003, pp. 1029--1053.

M. R. Oskoorouchi, “Semidefinite programming and the analytic center for linear matrix inequalities”, Theory paper, Faculty of Management, McGill University, December 1999.

M. R. Oskoorouchi, “An efficient software for Unconstrained Optimization Problems”, Sharif University of Technology, September 1995.

Books Edited:

M. R. Oskoorouchi, "TutORial in Operations Research: Decision Technologies and Applications", INFORMS 2009.

Conferences and Talks

Southern California OR Day, The Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine, 2010.
INFORMS, San Diego 2009.
INFORMS, Washington D.C. 2008.
Advanced Optimization Laboratory (AdvOL), McMaster University, July 2008 (invited talk). Slides
INFORMS, Seattle, November 2007.
INFORMS, Pittsburgh, November 2006.
INFORMS, San Francisco, November 2005.
SIAM Conference on Optimization, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2005.
Math Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, California State University San Marcos, March 2005
INFORMS, Denver, October 2004 (invited talk).
International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), RPI, Troy, NY, August 2004. Slides
CORS/INFORMS meeting, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2004 (invited talk)..
INFORMS, Atlanta 2003, with Jean-Louis Goffin (invited talk).
18th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2003, with Jean-Louis Goffin (invited talk). Slides
Southern California OR Day, UCI Graduate School of Management, April 2003. Slides
MSRC Seminar, McGill University, Montreal, April 2003 (invited talk). Slides
INFORMS, San Jose, November 2002, with Jean-Louis Goffin (invited talk)..
IMA Workshop: Computational Methods for Large Scale Integer Programs, Minnesota, October 2002, with Jean-Louis Goffin and Samir Elhedhli.
SIAM Conference on Optimization, May 2002, with Jean-Louis Goffin (invited talk).
McMaster Optimization Conference: Theory and Applications, August 2001, with Jean-Louis Goffin.
Novel Approach to Hard Discrete Optimization Conference, Waterloo, ON, April 2001, with Jean-Louis Goffin and Samir Elhedhli.
INFORMS, San Antonio, November 2000, with Jean-Louis Goffin.
17th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Atlanta, August 2000, with Jean-Louis Goffin.
Graduate Industrial Mathematical Modeling Camp 2000, SFU, Vancouver, May 2000
Optimization Days, GERAD, Montreal, May 2000, with Jean-Louis Goffin.
MSRC Seminar, McGill University, Montreal, February 2000, with Jean-Louis Goffin.
Numerical Analysis Seminar, November 1995, Sharif University of Technology, with Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri.

Honors

Doctoral Dissertation, Dean's Honor List.
First rank: nationwide graduate schools entrance test, conducted in February 1993 in Iran.
First rank: graduate students of Applied Mathematics at Sharif University of Technology, class of 1995.

Grants and Awards

University Professional Development/Research and Creative Activity Grant, California State University San Marcos, 2009 - 2010.
Lecturer Professional Development Award, University of California, Irvine, 2009 - 2010.
University Professional Development/Research and Creative Activity Grant, California State University San Marcos, 2008 - 2009.
University Professional Development/Research and Creative Activity Grant, California State University San Marcos, special call 2008.
University Professional Development/Research and Creative Activity Grant, California State University San Marcos, 2005 - 2006.
University Professional Development/Research and Creative Activity Grant, California State University San Marcos, 2004 - 2005.
Markstein Faculty Fellowship Award, California State University San Marcos, 2004 - 2005.
University Professional Development/Research and Creative Activity Grant, California State University San Marcos, 2003 - 2004.
Research assistantship funded by "Management Science Research Center", Faculty of Management, McGill University, from January to August 2000-2002.
Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs et l’aide a la recherche (Fonds FCAR), a granting agency of the Quebec government for summer 2000.
Special Two Year J.W. McConnell Memorial McGill Major Fellowship for academic years 1999-2000 and 2000-2001.
Research assistantship funded by "Management Science Research Center", Faculty of Management, McGill University, from January to August 1999.
Research assistantship funded by Ph.D. program, Faculty of Management, McGill University from September 1997 to December 1998.