W. Art Chaovalitwongse, Ph.d.

 
Current Positions  Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Radiology Core Member of Integrated Brain Imaging Center (IBIC) Affiliate Faculty Member of RUTCOR Permanent Member of DIMACS Faculty Fellow of Center for Supply Chain Management Contact information  Address: University of Washington Box 352650, Seattle, WA 98195-2650 Phone: (206) 221-8045 Fax: (206) 685-3072 Email: artchao AT uw DOT eduhttp://coewww.rutgers.edu/~ie/index.htmlhttp://www.rad.washington.edu/http://www.ibic.washington.eduhttp://rutcor.rutgers.eduhttp://dimacs.rutgers.eduhttp://www.scm.rutgers.edu/shapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5

My books


Clustering Challenges in Biological Networks (World Scientific, 2009) 


Optimization and Logistics Challenges in the Enterprise (Springer, 2009)

Computational Neuroscience (Springer, 2010)

 

My awards & honors


2011    IEEE Senior Member


2010    Rutgers Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence


2010    Early Promotion to Associate Professor (with Tenure), Rutgers University


2009    Outstanding Service Award, The Association of Thai Professionals in America and Canada (ATPAC)


2008    The Pierskalla best paper award for research excellence in health care management science, INFORMS


2008    Nominated for the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (NSSEFF) Program by Rutgers’ President McCormick


2006    NSF CAREER Award


2006    Omega Rho International Honor Society (Operations Research and Management Science)


2004    The Pierskalla best paper award for research excellence in health care management science, INFORMS


2003    Graduate Student Annual Award for Excellence in Research, University of Florida


With My students


2011    Finalist of the 2011 INFORMS Data Mining Student Paper Competition, co-author with my PhD student Chun-An Chou


2010    Winner of the 2010 Annual NJ Chapter of INFORMS Student Research Contest, co-author with my PhD student Zhe Liang


2009    Finalist of the 2009 Annual NJ Chapter of INFORMS Student Research Contest, co-author with my PhD student Chun-An Chou

 

My patents


“Multi-Dimensional Multi-Parameter Time Series Processing for Seizure Warning and Prediction”, United States Patent: US 7,263,467 B2, awarded Aug 2007

“Optimization of Multi-Dimensional Time Series Processing for Seizure Warning and Prediction”, International Patent: 7,373,199, awarded May 2008

“Optimization of Spatio-Temporal Patterns Processing for Seizure Warning and Prediction”, United States Patent: US 7,461,045, awarded December 2008

“Multi- Dimensional Dynamical Analysis”, filed on Jan. 27th, 2006 (U.S. Patent Application, Attorney Docket No. 1028724-000154)

 

  1. *After visiting the department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering at Princeton University in 2011, I am now with the departments of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Radiology at the University of Washington. 

  2. *My research focuses on optimization, machine learning and statistical learning techniques with applications in neuroimaging/neurophysiology, computational biology, and logistics optimization.

  3. *I am directing “C14 lab” under the Integrated Brain Imaging Center (IBIC) in the department of Radiology, UWMC.


News

  1. *My PhD student, Joe Chou, is joining the department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering at Binghamton University as Assistant Professor in Fall 2012.

  2. *My PhD student, Zhe Liang, joined the department of Industrial Engineering & Management at Peking University as Assistant Professor in Fall 2011.