Dr. Frank W. Ciarallo, Associate Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management

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PhD Dissertations Advised

Ph.D. Students Directed as Major Advisor 

Ph.D. Students at Air Force Institute of Technology (graduated) 

1. Maj Ryan Walton, Final Defense in August 2023, Dissertation Title: “Digital Twin: Integrating Physical, and Virtual Reality with Prescriptive Analytics to Enable Rapid Effective Decision-Making in Autonomous Systems”, Current Position (March 2024): Assistant Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH  

2. Lt Col Timothy Landucci Final Defense in August 2023, Dissertation Title: “Refining Contract Management: Essays On Relational Contracting, Transaction Costs, & Text Analysis”, Current Position (March 2024): Assistant Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 

Ph.D. Students at Wright State (graduated) 

3. Joseph Kristbaum, Final Defense in July 2019, Dissertation Title: “Strategic Biasing: An Exploration of Alterative Anchoring and Scale Distortion Optimization in Multi-Attribute Group Decision Making”, Current Position (March 2024): Assistant Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 

4. Albert Lowas, Final defense in March 2015, Dissertation Title: “Improved Spare Part Forecasting for Low Quantity Parts with Low and Increasing Failure Rates”, Current Position (March 2024): Chief Scientist, Air Mobility Command, Scott AFB, IL 

5. Victor Middleton, Final defense in May 2014, Dissertation Title: “Imperfect Situation Analysis: Representing the Role of Error and Uncertainty in Modeling, Simulation and Analysis”, Current Position (March 2024): Instructor, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 

6.   Anthony Bourne, (Co-Advisor N. Klingbeil), Final defense in April 2014, Dissertation Title: “Development of the Academic Performance-Commitment Matrix (APCM): Understanding the effects of motivation and an engineering mathematics curricular intervention on student self-efficacy and success in engineering”, Current position (March 2024): Vice President for Enrollment Management, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 

7.   Jeremy Knopp, (Co-Advisor R. Grandhi), Final Defense in February 2014, Dissertation Title, “Modern Statistical Methods and Uncertainty Quantification for Evaluating Reliability of Nondestructive Evaluation Systems”, Current Position (March 2024): Vice President of Defense and Space, 3D Corporation, Tokyo, Japan 

8. Gregory Noble, Ph.D. Candidate, Final defense in December 2012, Dissertation Title: “Inventory Systems with Transshipments and Quantity Discounts”, Current position (March 2024): Director of Data Science & Operations Research, 84.51?, Cincinnati, OH 

Ph.D. Students at Wright State (continued) 

9. Darrell Lochtefeld, Final defense in May 2011, Dissertation Title: “Multi-Objectivization in Genetic Algorithms”, Current position (March 2024): Division Manager and Vice President of Research, Development Test & Evaluation, Parallax Advanced Research, Dayton, OH 

10. Brian Heath, (Co-Advisor R. Hill), Final defense in February 2010, Dissertation Title: “The History, Philosophy and Practice of  Agent-Based Modeling and the Development of the Conceptual Model for Simulation Diagram”, Current position (2022): Vice President, Data Analytics, Akili Interactive (Digital Therapeutics startup), Boston, MA 

11. Vishnu Kesaraju, Final defense in March 2009, Dissertation Title:  “An Integrated Simulation Environment Combining Process-Driven and Event-Driven Models”, Current position (March 2024): Information Technology Specialist, Parker Hannifin, Boston, MA 

12. Suman Niranjan, Final defense in July 2008, Dissertation Title:  “A Study of Multi-Echelon Inventory Systems with Stochastic Capacity and Intermediate Product Demand”, Current position (March 2024):  Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, Logistics, & Operations Management, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 

Ph.D. Students at Arizona (graduated) 

13. Christopher C. Yang, (Co-Advisor M. Marefat).  Dissertation Title:  "CAD-Based Active Vision Inspection, Accuracy Analysis, and Tolerance Design", August 1997, Current position (March 2024):  Professor in Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA/ Program Director CISE/IIS, National Science Foundation