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San Marcos, California 92096-0001 USA
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Email: moskooro@csusm.edu

• Ph.D. (2002) in Management Science, Faculty of Management of McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. My thesis advisor was professor Jean-Louis Goffin   
• M.S. (1995) in Applied Mathematics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

• B.Sc. (1993) in Applied Mathematics, Dept. of Mathematics, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

• Interior point methods
• Semidefinite and conic optimization
• Analytic center cutting plane method (ACCPM)
• Large scale optimization
• Nondifferentiable optimization

• Mohammad R. Oskoorouchi, "The analytic center cutting plane method with semidefinite cuts", Doctoral Dissertation, Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 2002.

• Mohammad R. Oskoorouchi, "A modification on Newton method based on the trust region approach", Master Thesis, College of Mathematical Sciences, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, December 1995.

• M. R. Oskoorouchi, H. R. Ghaffari, T. Terlaky, D. M. Aleman, "An interior point constraint generation algorithm for semi-infinite optimization with healthcare application", Operation Research, forthcoming.

• K. G. Murty and M. R. Oskoorouchi, "Sphere methods for LP", Algorithmic Operations Research, Vol. 5, 2010, pp. 21 - 33.

• K. G. Murty and M. R. Oskoorouchi, "Note on implementing the new sphere method for LP using matrix inversions sparingly", Optimization Letters, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2009, pp. 137 - 160.

• M. R. Oskoorouchi, "On complexity of a cutting plane method for semi-infinite linear programming", Technical Report, College of Business Administration, California State University San Marcos, 2007.

• M. R. Oskoorouchi and J. E. Mitchell, "A second-order cone cutting surface method: complexity and application", Computational Optimization and Applications, Vol. 43 No. 3, 2009, pp. 379--409.

• M. R. Oskoorouchi and J.-L. Goffin, "A matrix generation approach for eigenvalue optimization", Mathematical Programming, Vol. 109, No 1, 2007, pp. 155--179.

•  M. R. Oskoorouchi and J.-L. Goffin, "An interior point cutting plane method for convex feasibility problem with second-order cone inequalities", Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 30, No. 1, February 2005, pp. 127--149.

• M. R. Oskoorouchi and J.-L. Goffin , "The analytic center cutting plane method with semidefinite cuts", SIAM Journal on Optimization, Vol. 13, No 4, 2003,  pp. 1029--1053.

• M. R. Oskoorouchi, "Semidefinite programming and the analytic center for linear matrix inequalities", Theory paper, Faculty of Management, McGill University, December 1999.

• M. R. Oskoorouchi, "An efficient software for Unconstrained Optimization Problems", Sharif University of Technology, September 1995.

Books Edited

• M. R. Oskoorouchi, "TutORial in Operations Research: Decision Technologies and Applications", INFORMS 2009.

Conferences and Talks

• Southern California OR Day, The Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine, 2010.
• INFORMS, San Diego 2009.
• INFORMS, Washington D.C. 2008.
• Advanced Optimization Laboratory (AdvOL), McMaster University, July 2008 (invited talk). Slides
• INFORMS, Seattle, November 2007.
• INFORMS, Pittsburgh, November 2006.
• INFORMS, San Francisco, November 2005.
• SIAM Conference on Optimization, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2005.
• Math Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, California State University San Marcos, March 2005
• INFORMS, Denver, October 2004 (invited talk).
• International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), RPI, Troy, NY, August 2004. Slides
• CORS/INFORMS meeting, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2004 (invited talk)
• INFORMS, Atlanta 2003, with Jean-Louis Goffin (invited talk).
• 18th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2003, with Jean-Louis Goffin (invited talk). Slides
• Southern California OR Day, UCI Graduate School of Management, April 2003. Slides
• MSRC Seminar, McGill University, Montreal, April 2003 (invited talk). Slides
• INFORMS, San Jose, November 2002, with Jean-Louis Goffin (invited talk)
• IMA Workshop: Computational Methods for Large Scale Integer Programs, Minnesota, October 2002, with Jean-Louis Goffin and Samir Elhedhli.
• SIAM Conference on Optimization, May 2002, with Jean-Louis Goffin (invited talk).
• McMaster Optimization Conference: Theory and Applications, August 2001, with Jean-Louis Goffin.
• Novel Approach to Hard Discrete Optimization Conference, Waterloo, ON, April 2001, with Jean-Louis Goffin and Samir Elhedhli.
• INFORMS, San Antonio, November 2000, with Jean-Louis Goffin.
• 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Atlanta, August 2000, with Jean-Louis Goffin.
• Graduate Industrial Mathematical Modeling Camp 2000, SFU, Vancouver, May 2000
• Optimization Days, GERAD, Montreal, May 2000, with Jean-Louis Goffin.
• MSRC Seminar, McGill University, Montreal, February 2000, with Jean-Louis Goffin.
• Numerical Analysis Seminar, November 1995, Sharif University of Technology, with Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri.

MBA Courses

• Statistics for Management
• Business Analytics 
• Managerial Model Building
• Master Project
• Management Decision Analysis

Undergraduate Courses

• Decision Models 
• Business Statistics 
• Business Statistics (Hybrid)
• Business Statistics (online)
• Productions & Operations Management 
• Senior Experience Problem Solving

Honors and Awards

• 2013: Outstanding MBA Instructor
• 2010: Nominated, President's Outstanding Faculty Award for Teaching Innovation and Excellence
• 2008: Nominated, President's Outstanding Faculty Award for Scholarship and Creative Activity
• 2002: Dean's Honor List, Doctoral Dissertation, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
• 1995: Honors Student, Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
• 1993: First rank, Iran's nationwide applied mathematics graduate school admission test, amoung over 1000 students.

Research Grants

• University Professional Development/Research and Creative Activity Grant, California State University San Marcos, 2009 - 2010.
• Lecturer Professional Development Award, University of California, Irvine, 2009 - 2010.
• University Professional Development/Research and Creative Activity Grant, California State University San Marcos, 2008 - 2009.
• University Professional Development/Research and Creative Activity Grant, California State University San Marcos, special call 2008.
• University Professional Development/Research and Creative Activity Grant, California State University San Marcos, 2005 - 2006.
• University Professional Development/Research and Creative Activity Grant, California State University San Marcos, 2004 - 2005.
• Markstein Faculty Fellowship Award, California State University San Marcos, 2004 - 2005.
• University Professional Development/Research and Creative Activity Grant, California State University San Marcos, 2003 - 2004.
• Research assistantship funded by "Management Science Research Center", Faculty of Management, McGill University, from January to August 2000-2002.
• Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs et l¿aide a la recherche (Fonds FCAR), a granting agency of the Quebec government for summer 2000.
• Special Two Year J.W. McConnell Memorial McGill Major Fellowship for academic years 1999-2000 and 2000-2001.
• Research assistantship funded by "Management Science Research Center", Faculty of Management, McGill University, from January to August 1999.
• Research assistantship funded by Ph.D. program, Faculty of Management, McGill University from September 1997 to December 1998.

Service

CSU System-Level Committees

• 2009 - 2012       CSU - Lower-Division Transfer Project (LDTP)
• 2006 - 2012       CSU - Entry Level Mathematics Committee (ELM)

University-Level Committees

• 2010 - 2011      Student Fee Advisory Committee
• 2009 - 2010      Data reconciliation and analysis subcommittee of BLP
• 2009 - 2011      Academic Senate Secretary
• 2009 - 2010      NEAC
• 2007 - present   Faculty Mentoring Program
• 2005 - 2008      Academic Senate (CoBA rep and APC rep)
• 2005 - 2007      Chair, Academic Policy Committee
• 2005 - 2007      Executive Committee (APC rep)
• 2004 - 2008      Academic Policy Committee (CoBA rep)
• College-Level Committees
• 2007 - 2009      MBA Committee (At Large)
• 2002 - 2004      MBA Committee (department rep)
• 2002 - 2004      MBA Admission Subcommittee (Member)
• 2002 - 2003      Senior Experience Advisory Board (Member)
• Department-Level Committee
• 2010 - present   Co-Chair, GSCM Advisory Board
• 2009 - 2010       PRC, ISOM department
• 2005 - 2006      OM Recruitment Committee
• 2004 - present   Course Coordinator of Business Statistics and Decision Models

My Favorite Optimization Sites

Operations Research: The Science of Better
Promoting OR
Optimization online
INFORMS Online
OR/MS
Michael Trick's Operations Research Page, now maintained by INFORMS
Archive of interior point papers
Interior point Methods
SIAM Activity Group on Optimization
SIAM: Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
MPS: Mathematical Programming Society
The ACCPM site
The Pacific Institution for Mathematical Scienses
AMS Mathematical publications
Mathematical Programming Glossary
Optimization Software Decision Tree
IEEE Computer Society