Amira Hijazi

Amira Hijazi

Research Engineer II

Georgia Tech, AI4OPT

Biography

I am a Research Faculty at the NSF Artificial Intelligence Research Institute for Advances in Optimization in the Georgia Tech School of Industrial and Systems Engineering working with Pascal Van Hentenryck and leading the supply chain group. Current projects include:

  • Data-Driven E-Commerce Robust Order Fulfillment with Delivery Delay Uncertainty.
  • Integrated Large-Scale Lot Sizing, Cutting Stock, and Transportation Planning in the Paper Industry.
  • Strategic Locomotive Assignment Optimization.
  • Data-Driven Dynamic Load Consolidation.
  • Optimal Timeshifting Strategies for Sustainable Computing.
  • ML for Column Generation with application in the Parallel Machine Scheduling.

I received my PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from NC State University where I was advised by Osman Ozaltin and Reha Uzsoy. During my PhD, I worked on optimal resource allocation in healthcare and production systems. Methods include stochastic programming, combinatorial optimization and machine learning. Specific applications include risk-averse vaccine allocation, product transitions in decentralized environments and parallel machine scheduling.

In summer 2020, I did a research internship at Los Alamos National Lab, where I worked with Hassan Hijazi on alignment and registration of 3D point-cloud using mathematical optimization.

Before coming to NCSU, I did my undergrad at the Islamic University of Gaza majoring in Industrial Engineering.

Interests
  • Supply Chain Optimization
  • Combinatorial Optimization
  • Machine Learning
  • Stochastic Optimization
  • Health Systems Optimization
Education
  • PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2023

    North Carolina State University

  • BSc in Industrial Engineering, 2016

    Islamic University of Gaza

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Research Engineer II
September 2024 – Present Georgia
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral Fellow
July 2023 – August 2024 Georgia
 
 
 
 
 
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant
August 2018 – June 2023 Raleigh
 
 
 
 
 
Research Intern
June 2020 – September 2020
 
 
 
 
 
Teaching Assistant
August 2016 – October 2016

Awards

University Graduate Fellowship
Hani Qaddumi BSc Scholarship

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