Changhyun Kwon Receives NSF CAREER Award
Published April 15, 2014 This content is archived.
Changhyun Kwon, Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, received a 2014 NSF CAREER Award for his proposal, “Advancing Routing Methods in Hazardous Materials Transportation.”
Kwon’s research will aim to mitigate the risk of hazmat accidents by advancing routing methods currently used in the transportation of hazardous materials. Most current hazmat routing methods rely on the average risk level of routes, and are vulnerable to catastrophic consequences of hazmat accidents. Spectral risk measures can be used to balance between the average risk level and the worse risk level and to make risk-averse routing decisions.
A web-based simulation system will be developed to visualize and test the theories and algorithms, as well as to train practitioners and students.
The methodologies can be broadened for use in other hazmat transportation problems such as gas-emission reduction, supply-chain disruption management, humanitarian logistics, and the design of reliable networks.
Kwon joined UB in 2008. His research interests include transportation systems analysis and service operations problems. He leads the Laboratory of Service and Transportation Operations Management (STOM lab), and is a core faculty member of the Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics (ISTL), the Transportation Informatics University Transportation Center (TransInfo UTC), and the UB 2020 Strategic Strength in Extreme Events. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2008.
The prestigious NSF CAREER Award provides five years of funding for researchers. They are designed to support junior faculty who have shown exceptional promise in teaching and research.