Kelly M. Sullivan Data-verified

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Assistant Professor

Last publication 2024 Last refreshed 2026-05-09

faculty

13 h-index 30 pubs 460 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Kelly M. Sullivan's research focuses on the optimization and reliability of complex systems, particularly in the context of critical infrastructures and wireless sensor networks. Her work investigates methods for optimal post-disruption restoration of interdependent infrastructures under uncertainty, employing risk and resilience-based approaches. Sullivan also studies time-based node deployment policies and redeployment strategies to enhance the reliability and coverage of wireless sensor networks, utilizing approximate dynamic programming techniques.

Her publications address various optimization problems, including shortest route problems in railyards and methods for estimating network survival signatures. Sullivan has collaborated with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Haitao Liao and Ashlea Bennett Milburn. Her scholarly output includes 30 publications with 460 citations and an h-index of 13.

Metrics

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

Selected Publications

  • Case Article—Optimizing Transportation and Equity in a District Zoning Problem for ORville Public Schools (2024)
  • Case—Optimizing Transportation and Equity in a District Zoning Problem for ORville Public Schools (2024)
  • Time-based redeployment of multi-class nodes for reliable wireless sensor network coverage (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • An optimization‐based Monte Carlo method for estimating the two‐terminal survival signature of networks with two component classes (2024)
    6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Approximate dynamic programming for condition-based node deployment in a wireless sensor network (2023)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Algorithms and complexity results for the single-cut routing problem in a rail yard (2023)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Model and solution method for mean-risk cost-based post-disruption restoration of interdependent critical infrastructure networks (2022)
    21 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Informing Post-Disaster Restoration through Modeling Interdependent Agriculture and Transportation Networks (2021)
  • The single train shortest route problem in a railyard (2021)
    8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Risk and resilience-based optimal post-disruption restoration for critical infrastructures under uncertainty (2021)
    78 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Time-Based Node Deployment Policies for Reliable Wireless Sensor Networks (2021)
    23 citations DOI OpenAlex

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