Dr. James Curry

Assistant Professor

Department of Industrial Engineering

Phone:  409-880-7823

Email: jcurry@my.lamar.edu

 

 

 

Education

Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University 

M.S.  Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, University of Texas

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas

 

Areas Of Expertise

Logistics

Scheduling

Supply Chain Management

Software Development

Optimization

Simulation

 

Illustrative Papers/Presentations

 

Weihang Zhu, J. Curry, A. Marquez, SIMD Tabu Search for Quadratic Assignment Problem with Graphics Hardware Acceleration, accepted by International Journal of Production Research.

Curry, J. and Peters, B. A. (2005).  Rescheduling parallel machines with stepwise increasing tardiness and machine assignment stability objectives.  International Journal of Production Research, 43 (15), 3231-3246.

Smith, J.S.,. Peters, B.A, Curry, J. and Gupta, D., “Prototype software model for designing intruder detection systems with simulation,” Proceedings of SPIE ’98, Orlando , FL , April, 1998.

 

Weihang Zhu, James Curry, Particle Swarm with Graphics Hardware Acceleration and Local Pattern Search on Bound Constrained Optimization Problems, accepted by IEEE Sym-posiums Series on Computational Intelligence, 2009, Nashville, TN, USA.

 

 

 

Industry Experience

VectorSCM (Lead Logistics Provider for General Motors for 2.5 Years)

IBM Global Services (3 Years) with consulting project at UPS Logistics, KMart, and IBM

City of Austin (3 Years)