Theodore B. Trafalis, Ph.D.

Professor
 

E-mail: ttrafalis@ou.edu
Office Phone: 405.325.3721
Fax: 405.325.7555
More Information: Personal Web Site

Biography

Dr. Theodore B. Trafalis is a Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He earned his B.S. in mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece, his M.S. in Applied Mathematics, M.S.I.E., and Ph.D. in Operations Research from Purdue University. He is a member of ORSA, SIAM, Hellenic Operational Society, International Society of Multiple criteria Decision Making, and the International Society of Neural Networks. His is listed in the 1993/1994 edition of Who’s Who in the World. He was a visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University (1989-1990), an invited Research Fellow at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands in 1996, and a visiting Associate Professor at Blaise Pascal University, France and at the Technical University of Crete in 1998. He was also an invited visiting Associate Professor at Akita Prefectural University, Japan in 2001.

Research Activities

• Operations research/management science
• Mathematical programming
• Interior point methods
• Multiobjective optimization
• Control theory
• Computational and algebraic geometry
• Artificial neural networks
• Kernel methods
• Evolutionary programming
• Global optimization