Contact Information
Department of Mathematics
377 Altgeld Hall, MC-382
1409 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801
Professor & Associate Head of Undergraduate Programs
Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
104C Transportation Building
Biography
My interests are in various applied problems which have impact. My formal training is in electrical engineering and applied mathematics. I find that some of the more interesting problems I have worked on have come from looking at the real world with a strongly quantitative toolset. Along the way, I have spent time at a hedge fund and consulted for private industry and the U.S. Government. Finally, at the moment I am the associate head for undergraduate studies in the department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering.
Research Interests
Applied Mathematics, financial engineering, big data, traffic, precision agriculture, Internet of Things
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Professor, Statistics
Professor, Center for Digital Agriculture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
External Links
Recent Publications
Carmody, D. R., & Sowers, R. B. (2019). Tradeoffs between safety and time: A routing view. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 108, 357-377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.09.020
Kaur, R., Menon, S., Zhang, X., Sowers, R., & Hernandez, M. E. (2019). Exploring Characteristic Features in Gait Patterns for Predicting Multiple Sclerosis. In 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019 (pp. 4217-4220). [8857604] (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857604
Kaur, R., Sun, R., Ziegelman, L., Sowers, R., & Hernandez, M. E. (2019). Using virtual reality to examine the neural and physiological anxiety-related responses to balance-demanding target-reaching leaning tasks. In 2019 IEEE-RAS 19th International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2019 (pp. 313-319). [9035020] (IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots; Vol. 2019-October). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids43949.2019.9035020
Kaur, R., Sun, R., Ziegelman, L., Sowers, R., & Hernandez, M. E. (2019). Using Virtual Reality to Examine the Neural and Physiological Responses to Height and Perturbations in Quiet Standing. In 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019 (pp. 5233-5236). [8857647] (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857647
Raman, A., Sowers, R., & Sreenivas, R. S. (2019). An affordable and portable technology for real-time scheduling of appliances in smart homes. In 4th North American IEOM Conference. IEOM 2019 (pp. 788-800). (Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management). IEOM Society.
