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Long time middle school teacher who is still on a quest to continue in my personal education. I participated in the RET project with UTA last summer and while I learned so much, the experience allowed me to impact my classroom teaching. Currently, I teach at Jerry Knight STEM Academy in Mansfield, TX. I get to teach advanced 6th, 7th, and 8th graders in multiple STEM electives.

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Dr. Chen currently serves as Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies for Industrial, Manufacturing, & Systems Engineering and Director of the Center on Stochastic Modeling, Optimization, & Statistics at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has expertise in the design of experiments, statistical modeling, and data mining, particularly for computer experiments, adaptive dynamic programming, surrogate optimization, and stochastic optimization. She has studied applications in sustainability and energy, smart cities, transportation, health care, law enforcement, and chemical analysis.

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Erick Jones is an assistant professor in the IMSE department at UTA and the founder and director of the Sustainable and Equitable Allocation of Resources or SEAR Lab. He obtained a PhD from the Operations Research and Industrial Engineering program at the University of Texas at Austin, a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University, and is a fellow of GEM, NSF INFEWS, and DOE MLEF. He spent several years working in the design, manufacturing, oil and gas, and HVAC industries. During this time, he traveled around the world and witnessed how the lack of basic infrastructure like electricity, HVAC systems, clean water, internet, and banking negatively affects the quality of life of the majority of the world’s population. These experiences motivated him to pursue research that can enhance quality of life by improving access to sustainable resources and economic opportunities, particularly where a lack of physical infrastructure or economic resources presents a major obstacle, leading to the creation of the SEAR lab. The SEAR lab investigates how communities, companies, and countries can allocate their limited resources in a way that maximizes their desired outcomes in a sustainable, equitable, and resilient but also elegant way. The SEAR lab assesses these problems by combining physical experimentation, data analytics, and stochastic systems optimization to provide actionable decisions and create scalable prototypes.

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Jay Rosenberger is Professor and Interim Department Chair of Industrial, Manufacturing, & Systems Engineering. He is a past director for COSMOS and for the Center for Transportation Equity, Decisions & Dollars. He has expertise in mathematical programming, applied simulation, and optimization of statistical metamodels of complex systems. He has applied his methodological research to solve numerous real-world problems including those in transportation, health care, defense, and energy.

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Jaivardhan is a PhD student in the Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering department at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research focuses on statistics, optimisation, and their intersection.

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Vishnu Sharma is a Graduate of the Masters of Data Science Program at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research focuses on Data Mining and Computer Experiments Analysis.

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I am Soulmaz Rahman Mohammadpour, a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Arlington, specializing in industrial engineering. With a background encompassing both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in the same (Industrial Engineering) field. Prior to my doctoral studies, I accumulated four years of practical experience in Supply Chain and Optimization roles at international companies like Unilever and Dairy Bel. With a combination of academic knowledge that I am developing in the University of Texas at Arlington under the supervision of Professor Jay Rosenberger and Professor Victoria Chen, and industry insight, I try to emerge as a promising scholar poised to make significant contributions to the field.

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Rahsirearl Smalls is an Early College Science Instructor at Everman Independent School District in Everman, TX. He was previously a Project Lead the Way teacher at Charles Baxter Junior High School when he participated in the RET project with UTA in the summer of 2022. This experience helped to shape the way he delivers STEM instruction to his students. His goal as an educator is to expose students to the various STEM careers that are available to them.

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With over 10 years of experience teaching HS/MS science, Jocelyn was an advanced biology and environmental systems teacher at Lamar High School in the Arlington Independent School District when she participated in the RET program in the summer of 2022.

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