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Last published 2025
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Kelly M. Sullivan

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Associate Professor

Formerly Arkansas Affiliated with University of Arkansas through 2024.

13 h-index 30 pubs 460 cited

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Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Kelly M. Sullivan's research focuses on developing and applying optimization models to enhance the resilience and performance of complex systems. Her work investigates strategies for post-disruption restoration of critical infrastructures, incorporating uncertainty into risk and resilience assessments. She has also explored multi-objective optimization for designing resilient supply chain networks and optimizing tool path planning for multi-tool additive manufacturing. Other research areas include approximate dynamic programming for selective maintenance in series-parallel systems and budgeting maintenance dredging projects to improve inland waterway network performance. Sullivan also contributed to research on integrated approaches for redundancy allocation and test planning for reliability growth, as well as time-based node deployment policies for reliable wireless sensor networks. Her scholarly contributions are reflected in an h-index of 13, with 30 total publications and 460 citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 13
  • Publications: 30
  • Citations: 460

Positions

  • Associate Professor 2019–present
    University of Arkansas Department of Industrial Engineering ORCID
  • Assistant Professor 2012–present
    University of Arkansas Fayetteville Industrial Engineering ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Case Article—Optimizing Transportation and Equity in a District Zoning Problem for ORville Public Schools (2024)
    INFORMS Transactions on Education DOI OpenAlex
  • Case—Optimizing Transportation and Equity in a District Zoning Problem for ORville Public Schools (2024)
    INFORMS Transactions on Education DOI OpenAlex
  • Time-based redeployment of multi-class nodes for reliable wireless sensor network coverage (2024)
    Computers & Industrial Engineering 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • An optimization‐based Monte Carlo method for estimating the two‐terminal survival signature of networks with two component classes (2024)
    Naval Research Logistics (NRL) 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Approximate dynamic programming for condition-based node deployment in a wireless sensor network (2023)
    Reliability Engineering & System Safety 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Algorithms and complexity results for the single-cut routing problem in a rail yard (2023)
    IISE Transactions 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Model and solution method for mean-risk cost-based post-disruption restoration of interdependent critical infrastructure networks (2022)
    Computers & Operations Research 22 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Informing Post-Disaster Restoration through Modeling Interdependent Agriculture and Transportation Networks (2021)
    Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) DOI OpenAlex
  • The single train shortest route problem in a railyard (2021)
    Optimization Letters 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Risk and resilience-based optimal post-disruption restoration for critical infrastructures under uncertainty (2021)
    European Journal of Operational Research 83 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Time-Based Node Deployment Policies for Reliable Wireless Sensor Networks (2021)
    IEEE Transactions on Reliability 24 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Toolpath planning for multi-gantry additive manufacturing (2020)
    IISE Transactions 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Modeling interdependencies in infrastructure systems using multi-layered network flows (2020)
    Computers & Operations Research 19 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Tool Path Planning Optimization for Multi-Tool Additive Manufacturing (2019)
    Procedia Manufacturing 23 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Approximate Dynamic Programming for Selective Maintenance in Series–Parallel Systems (2019)
    IEEE Transactions on Reliability 26 citations DOI OpenAlex

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