Dr. James Curry
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering Phone:  409-880-7823
Email: jcurry@my.lamar.edu
Research Website
Resume

 

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  

1. Weihang Zhu, J. Curry, A. Marquez (2008). SIMD Tabu Search for Quadratic Assignment Problem with Graphics Hardware Acceleration. accepted by International Journal of Production Research.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

5. Weihang Zhu, James Curry, Anjali Mishra and Victor Zaloom (2009).  A study of Ant Colony-Based Parallel Machine Scheduling with Graphics Hardware Acceleration, Accepted by Proceedings of the ASME 2009 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, October 4-7, 2009, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

6. Weihang Zhu and James Curry (2009). Multi-walk Parallel Pattern Search on a GPU Computing Platform, International Conference of Computational Science, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, 2009.

 

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)