Jeffrey W. Herrmann

Research

Objective: My research uses mathematical models to understand, model, and improve decision making by humans and autonomous systems.

This page is divided into the following sections:

Research Collaborations and Students
Research Areas and Projects
About My Research

Publications: My publications include books, chapters, journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports. Many of these publications are available on-line.

Research Collaborations and Students

It is my pleasure to be advising the following students: Mehdi Dadfarnia, Prem Ganapathy, Vishal Gattani, Siddharth Gopal, Chien-Ming Huang, Prannoy Namala, and Eashwar Sathyamurthy. I am currently collaborating with the following faculty: Shapour Azarm, Mohammad Fazelpour, Erica Gralla, Craig Lawrence, Hongjie Liu, Don Milton, and Adam Porter.

Some recent theses and dissertations by my students:

Greg Lancaster, Modeling and Simulation of Novel Medical Response Systems for Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest.
Ruchir Patel, Multi-Vehicle Route Planning for Centralized and Decentralized Systems.
Eliot Rudnick-Cohen, Combined Robust Optimal Design, Path, and Motion Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems Subject to Uncertainty.
Eashwar Sathyamurthy, Multi-Flight Algorithms for Multi-UAV Arc Routing Problem.

Over the years my students, former students, their families, and I have had various opportunities to gather for fun and food. Please see the photo album for photos of these events.

Research Areas and Projects

The following web sites provide information about the research projects and efforts that we have completed and those that are underway:

Optimization and AI for Unmanned and Autonomous Systems

Decision Making in Product Development
Emergency Preparedness and Health Care Systems
Process Planning and Design for Manufacturing
Production Planning and Scheduling
- Aggregation for Cyclic Scheduling
- Rescheduling Manufacturing Systems
- Process Planning and Production Scheduling for Affordable Space Systems (also known as IPPS and ASSIST)
- Input Control for Job Shop Manufacturing
- Job Shop Scheduling
Manufacturing System Design
Simulation of Manufacturing Systems
- A Module for Quickly Modeling Pull Production in Arena
- Supply Chain Simulation Models
- Adaptable Simulation Models for Manufacturing
- Learning Historian for Discrete-Event Simulation
- Simulation and optimization of production control for lean manufacturing transition
- Operational Methods for Semiconductor Manufacturing: Integrating Product Dynamics and Process Models
Manufacturing Operations and Processes
- Sheet Metal Layout and Operations
- A work instructions system for flexible assembly lines.

About My Research

Research Lab: I am the director of the Simulation-Based System Design Laboratory. The lab has many faculty, students, and projects on a wide variety of topics related to simulation and system design. (This lab was formerly known as the Computer Integrated Manufacturing Lab.)

A video about my research.

A video of my ISR Colloquium (Fall, 2010) on Improving Planning for Public Health Emergencies.

A news story about my presentation to an Institute on Medicine committee.

A news story about our NSF grant for problem decomposition in facility design.

A news story about my promotion in 2015.

A news story about the Designing Innovations innovation and research stream for the University of Maryland's First-Year Innovation & Research Experience (FIRE) program.

A news story about our project on Planning and Metareasoning for Multi-Agent Systems with Variable Communication Availability.

A news story about my work planning mass vaccination clinics.

The announcement about our research partnership with UMBC and ARL on AI and multi-agent systems.