My research group is always looking
for talented and energetic graduate students to participate in research.Opportunities currently exist for graduate
students and talented undergraduate students in the areas of port security
and emergency medical services.I am
particularly interested in students who have a background in applied
mathematics, computer science, operations research, and engineering; students
who have taken courses in real analysis, probability, and discrete
mathematics; and students who are interested in applying discrete
optimization and approximation algorithms to problems in homeland security
and emergency response.Students must
be able to program (C, C++, Matlab), and knowledge of Excel and LaTeX is a
plus.
Vaughan,
D. E., S. H. Jacobson, S. N.Hall, and L. A. McLay, 2005. "Simultaneous
Generalized Hill Climbing Algorithms for Addressing Sets of Discrete
Optimization Problems," INFORMS Journal on Computing 17(4) 1 –
12.
Jacobson,
S. H., L. A. McLay, J. E. Kobza, J. M. Bowman, 2005. “Modeling and Analyzing
Multiple Station Baggage Screening Security System Performance," Naval
Research Logistics 52(1), 30 – 45.
McLay, L.
A. and D. E. Goldberg, 2005. “Efficient Genetic Algorithms using
Discretization Scheduling,” Evolutionary Computation 13 (3) 353 –
385.
Jacobson,
S. H., L. A. McLay, S. N. Hall, J. E. Orosz, 2005. “Performance Analysis of
Cyclical Simulated Annealing Algorithms,” Methodology and Computing in
Applied Probability 7(2) 183 – 201.
Jacobson, S. H., J. L. Virta, L. A. McLay,
J. E. Kobza, 2005. “Integer Program Models for the Deployment of Airport Baggage
Screening Security Devices," Optimization and Engineering 6(3)
339 – 359.
McLay, L.
A., S. H. Jacobson, and J. E. Kobza, 2006. “A Multilevel Passenger
Prescreening Problem for Aviation Security,” Naval Research Logistics
53 (3), 183 – 197.
Jacobson,
S. H., S. N. Hall, L. A. McLay, D. Henderson,
D. E. Vaughan, 2006. “Optimal Search
Strategies Using Simultaneous Generalized Hill Climbing Algorithms,” MathematicalandComputerModelling 49(9-10), 1061 – 1073.
McLay, L.
A., S. H. Jacobson, and J. E. Kobza, 2007. “Integer Programming Models
and Analysis for a Multilevel Passenger Screening Problem,” IIE
Transactions 39(1), 73 –
81.
McLay, L.
A., S. H. Jacobson, 2007. “Integer Knapsack Problems with Set-up
Weights,” Computational Optimization and Applications 37(1), 35 – 47.
McLay, L. A., S. H. Jacobson, 2007. “Algorithms for the Bounded Set-up
Knapsack Problem,” Discrete Optimization 4(2),
206 – 212.
Nikolaev, A. G., S. H. Jacobson, L. A. McLay, 2007.“A Sequential Stochastic Security System Design Problem for Aviation Security,” Transportation Science 41(2), 182 – 194.
Jacobson, S.H., and L.A. McLay, 2008.“Applying Statistical Tests to Empirically Compare Tabu Search Parameters for MAX 3-SATISFIABILITY:A Case Study,” Omega 37(3), 522 – 534.
McLay, L. A., S. H. Jacobson and J.E. Kobza, 2008.“The Tradeoff between Technology and Prescreening Intelligence in Checked Baggage Screening for Aviation Security,” Journal of Transportation Security 1(2), 107 – 126.
McLay, L. A., S. H. Jacobson, and
A. G. Nikolaev, 2008.“A Sequential Stochastic
Passenger Screening Problem for Aviation Security,” IIE Transactions 41(6),
575 – 591.
McLay, L.A., 2009."A Maximum Expected Covering Location Model with Two Types of
Servers," IIE Transactions 41(8), 730 – 741.
Lee, A.J., L.A. McLay, and S.H. Jacobson, 2009.“Designing Aviation Security Passenger
Screening Systems using Nonlinear Control.”SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (to appear).
McLay, L.A. and M.E. Mayorga, 2010.“Evaluating Emergency Medical Service
Performance Measures.”Health Care
Management Science (to appear).
McLay, L.A., J. D. Lloyd, and E. Niman, 2010.“Interdicting Nuclear Material on Cargo
Containers using Knapsack Problem Models.”Annals of Operations Research (to appear).
Book Chapters
McLay, L.A., 2009.“Emergency Medical Service Systems that Improve Patient
Survivability.” Encyclopedia of
Operations Research in the area of “Applications with Societal Impact,”
ed. P. Keskinocak (to appear).
·Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO):2002, 2001,
2000
Talks and Conference Presentations
Interactive
Session Speaker (With James
Denison, Rebecca Dreiding, and Maria Mayorga).“Evaluating Emergency Medical Service
Dispatching Policies.”
Invited
Speaker (with Chris Foufoulides), 2009 INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 11-14,
2009, San Diego, CA.“Using Simulation Optimization to Construct Efficient Screening
Strategies for Cervical Cancer.”
Invited
Speaker (with Maria E. Mayorga), 2009 INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 11-14,
2009, San Diego, CA.“Evaluating Emergency Medical Service Performance Measures.”
Invited
Speaker (with Jason R.W. Merrick), 2009 INFORMS Annual Meeting, October
11-14, 2009, San Diego, CA.“Is Screening Cargo Containers for Smuggled Nuclear Threats
Worthwhile?”
Contributed
session (with Chris Foufoulides), 2009 Virginia Academy of Science, 87th
Annual Meeting, May 26-29, 2009, “Using Simulation Optimization to Construct
Efficient Screening Strategies for Cervical Cancer.”
Invited Speaker (with Jason R.W. Merrick, Jamie D. Lloyd, Emily Niman), Joint Technical Presentation of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of INFORMS and the National Chapter of IIE at GeorgeWashingtonUniversity, December 4, 2008, “Screening Cargo Containers for Nuclear Material.”
Invited Speaker (with Jamie D.
Lloyd and Emily Niman), 2008 INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 11-15, 2008, Washington, DC,
“Screening Cargo Containers for Nuclear Material.”
Interactive Session Speaker (with
Alisha Purohit), 2008 INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 11-15, 2008, Washington, DC,
“Designing Next-Generation Emergency Medical Service Systems.”
Invited Session (with Jason R.W.
Merrick), 2007 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 2007, Seattle, WA,
“Modeling Survivability for
Emergency Medical Service Systems.”
Sponsored Session, 2007 INFORMS
Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 2007, Seattle,
WA, “OR in the Classroom:Helping the Homeless.”
Sponsored Session (with Sheldon H.
Jacobson and Adrian J. Lee), 2007 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 2007,
Seattle, WA, “A Problem to Sequentially Screen
Passengers for Aviation Security.”
Invited Speaker, SAMSI Perception,
Policy & Practice Workshop, October 3-4, 2007, Research Triangle Park, NC,
“Modeling Patient Survivability for
Emergency Medical Service Systems.”
Invited Session (with Sheldon H.
Jacobson), 2007 INFORMS International Conference, July 8-11, 2007, Puerto Rico, “A Sequential Stochastic Passenger
Screening Problem for Aviation Security.”
Invited Session (with Sheldon H.
Jacobson), 2006 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA,
“The
Economic Impact of Obesity on Automobile Fuel Consumption.”
Invited Session, 2006 Symposium on
Operations Research and the Criminal Justice System,
September 28-29, 2006, Arlington,
VA, “Balancing COMPSTAT and
Community Policing.”
Invited Session (with Sheldon H.
Jacobson and John E. Kobza), 2005 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 13-16,
2005, San Francisco, CA, “Integer Programming Models and
Analysis for a Multilevel Passenger Screening Problem”
Invited Session (with Sheldon H.
Jacobson), 2004 SIAM
Conference on Discrete Mathematics, June 13-16, 2004, Nashville, TN,
“Integer Knapsack Problem with Set-up Weights.”
Invited Session (with Sheldon H.
Jacobson and John E. Kobza), 2003 INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 19-22,
2003, Atlanta, GA, “Modeling and Analyzing Checked
Baggage Screening Systems.”
Invited Session, The Fourteenth
International Summer Symposium on Science and World Affairs, July 15-21,
2002, Urbana, IL, “Passenger Profiling Issues in
Aviation Security.”
Seminars
·University of Texas
at Austin,
2009
·WINFORMS/George Washington
University, 2008
·GeorgetownUniversity, 2008.
·VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity, Operations Research Applications Speaker Series, 2006
·VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity, Discrete Math Seminar Series,
2009
