CS Student, Jack Williams, Receives Undergraduate Research Day Grand Prize

Computer Science senior Jack Williams, from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, has received the Grand Prize and a $500 cash award for his presentation, one of 142 submissions, in the 2020 OU Online Undergraduate Research Day.

The presentation, "Modeling a Green Supply Chain," describes  modeling how a green supply chain, which minimizes emissions, differs from a typical supply chain, known to minimize the retailer's operating cost. The research consisted of building a theoretical model for the supply chain, then creating the model in a computer program. Next, the model was applied to population density data to discover the appearance of the green supply chain. Results were compared to traditional supply chains.

The research project, completed during the 2019-2020 academic year, was conceived by Reza Alizadeh, doctoral candidate in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, who together with ISE Professor Janet Allen and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Professor Farrokh Mistree, served as Williams' mentor.

Williams is an Honors Engineering Research Experience Scholar and Systems Realization Laboratory member. 

Williams, as lead author, will present the research paper at the 2020 ASME Design Automation Conference in August 2020.

Williams, a National Merit Scholar, chose to study computer science at OU because he enjoys solving complex problems and employing theoretical methodology with its basis in applied mathematics, engineering, algorithms, data structures, and machine learning.

View Presentation Video (00:09:58)

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