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
Research Areas
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
Education
Ph.D. Maryland, 1991
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Professor, Statistics
Professor, Center for Digital Agriculture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
External Links
Recent Publications
Carmody, D., & Sowers, R. (2021). Topological Analysis of Traffic Pace via Persistent Homology. Journal of Physics: Complexity, 2(2), [025007]. https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-072X/abc96a
Kaur, R., Schaye, C., Thompson, K., Yee, D. C., Zilz, R., Sreenivas, R. S., & Sowers, R. B. (2021). Machine learning and price-based load scheduling for an optimal IoT control in the smart and frugal home. Energy and AI, 3, [100042]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyai.2020.100042
Schenck, H. K., Sowers, R., & Song, R. (2021). Trading networks and hodge theory. Journal of Physics Communications, 5(1), 1-20. [015018]. https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/abd1c2
Wang, S., Okubo, R., Liao, G., Ku, C., Sowers, R., & Hernandez, M. E. (2021). Designing a closed loop system to achieve real-time evaluation and manipulation of state anxiety while walking in virtual reality. In 2021 10th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2021 (pp. 45-48). [9441253] (International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER; Vol. 2021-May). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/NER49283.2021.9441253
Hu, Y., Bishnoi, A., Kaur, R., Sowers, R., & Hernandez, M. E. (2020). Exploration of Machine Learning to Identify Community Dwelling Older Adults with Balance Dysfunction Using Short Duration Accelerometer Data. In 42nd Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Enabling Innovative Technologies for Global Healthcare, EMBC 2020 (pp. 812-815). [9175871] (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS; Vol. 2020-July). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9175871
