Dr. Gino Lim, R. Larry and Gerlene (Gerri) R. Snider Endowed Chair | Professor & Chair, Department of Industrial Engineering

Cullen College of Engineering, Department of Industrial Department

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• Areas of expertise

  • Large Scale Optimization
  • Models under Uncertainty
  • Decomposition Algorithms
  • Parallel Computation

• Awards

  • Best Paper Award, Energy Systems Division, ISERC, IISE, Pittsburgh, PA 2017
  • Fellow, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE), 2017
  • Volunteer Service Award at the Meritorious level, INFORMS, Nashville, TN, 2016
  • Outstanding Asian & Pacific Islander American (APIA) Award, OCA-Greater Houston Chapter, September 19, 2014
  • Outstanding Teacher Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2007 and 2010
  • Outstanding Teacher Award, IE Department, University of Houston, 2005, 2006, and 2009
  • Moving Spirit Award, INFORMS, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006
  • Who's who in engineering education, 2005
  • Travel Award, FASEB/MARC, Tucson, AZ, 2004
  • Travel Grant Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002-2003
  • Vilas Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002-2003
  • Pierskalla Best Paper Award, INFORMS, San Jose, CA, 2002

• Publications

  • M. Zaghian, G.J. Lim, and A. Khabazian,   A Chance-Constrained Programming Framework to Handle Uncertainties in Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning, accepted for publication, European Journal of Operational Research, October 2017.
  • S. Kim, G. J. Lim, J. Cho, and M. Cote, “ Drone-aided Healthcare Services for Patients with Chronic Diseases in Rural Areas,” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 88(1), 163-180, September, 2017.
  • M. Zaghian, W. Cao, W. Liu, L. Kardar, K. S. Randeniya, R. Mohan, G. Lim, “Comparison of linear and nonlinear programming approaches for "worst case dose" and "minmax" robust optimization of intensity-modulated proton therapy dose distributions," Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 18 (2), pp15-25, 2017
  • L. Liao, G. J. Lim, Y. Li, J. Yu, N. Sahoo, H. Li, M. Gillin, X. Zhu, A. Mahajan, S. J. Frank, D.R. Grosshans, Q. Nguyen, D. Gomez, and X. Zhang, “Robust optimization for intensity modulated proton therapy treatment plans with multi-isocenter large fields,” International Journal of Particle Therapy, vol 3, no. 2, pp305-311, 2016. DOI: 0.14338/IJPT-16-00012.1
  • G.J. Lim, G.J. Lim, A. Mobasher, J.F. Bard, A. Najjarbashi, “ Nurse Scheduling with Lunch Break Assignments in Operating Suites,” vol. 10, pp 35-48, DOI:10.1016/j.orhc.2016.07.001, September, 2016.
  • S. Lin, G. Lim, and J. Bard, “ Benders Decomposition and an IP-based Heuristic for Selecting IMRT Treatment Beam Angles,” European Journal of Operational Research, 251(3), pp715-726, June 2016.
  • Xiang W*, Yin J, Lim G, , “An ant colony optimization approach for solving an operating room surgery scheduling problem,” Computers and Industrial Engineering, 85, pp. 335-345, July 2015.
  • W. Cao*, G. Lim, Y. Li, X. Zhu, and X. Zhang, “ Improved beam angle arrangement in intensity modulated proton therapy treatment planning for localized prostate cancer,” Special issue “Proton Therapy for Cancer”, Cancers, 7(2), pp574-584, June 2015
  • Xiang W, Yin J, Lim G, “ A short-term operating room surgery scheduling problem integrating multiple nurses roster constraints,” Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 63(2), pp. 91-106, February 2015.
  • W. Xiang and G. Lim, , "Pareto Set-based Ant Colony Optimization for Multi-Objective Surgery Scheduling Problem," The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal, 8(1), pp. 1211-1218, December 2014.

  More publications on faculty website above.

• Patents

  • None available.

• Grants and Funded Research

  • $879,362 Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas grant to optimize clinical effectiveness of proton therapy for cancer patients in collaboration with Dr. Wenhua Cao. 

• Curriculum Vitae

  • Gino Lim CV

• Contact information