Faculty
Taewoo Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office Location E209
Phone 713-743-3361
Fax 713-743-4190
Email tlee6 [at] uh.edu
Website Personal Website
Education
PhD, Operations Research, University of Toronto (2015)
MEng, Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto (2010)
BEng, Industrial Engineering, Korea University (2008)
Professional Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University (2015-2016)
Courses Taught
INDE 7397: Decision Modeling and Optimization under Uncertainty
INDE 3382: Stochastic Models
INDE 3333: Engineering Economy
Research Interests
Data-driven modeling in optimization
- Inverse optimization
- Inverse reinforcement learning
- Statistical machine learning
Optimization under uncertainty
- Robust optimization
- MDP and POMDP
Applications to healthcare
- Disease screening
- Telemedicine
- Cancer (radiation) therapy
- Organ transplantation
- Lifestyle management, etc.
Awards & Honors
Research Excellence Award – Cullen College of Engineering
Outstanding Teacher Award – Department of Industrial Engineering
Finalist: INFORMS MCDM Junior faculty Best Paper Award
Winner: INFORMS Healthcare Applications Society (HAS) Best Paper
Winner: Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) Best Paper
Professional Activities
INFORMS UH Faculty Advisor
Selected Publications
- T. Ajayi, T. Lee, A. J. Schaefer, “Objective selection for cancer treatment: An inverse optimization approach,” Operations Research, Articles in Advance
- Z. Shahmoradi, T. Lee, “Optimality-based clustering: An inverse optimization approach,” Operations Research Letters, Forthcoming
- D. Mildebrath, T. Lee, S. Sinha, A. J. Schaefer, A. O. Gaber, “Characterizing rational transplant program response to outcome-based regulation,” Operations Research, Forthcoming
- Z. Shahmoradi, T. Lee, “Quantile inverse optimization: Improving stability in inverse linear programming,” Operations Research, Articles in Advance
- A. Babier, T. C. Y. Chan, T. Lee, R. Mahmood, D. Terekhov, “An ensemble learning framework for model fitting and evaluation in inverse linear optimization,” INFORMS Journal on Optimization, 3 (2), 119-226 (authors ordered alphabetically)
- T. C. Y. Chan, T. Lee, D. Terekhov, “Inverse optimization: Closed-form solutions, geometry and goodness of fit,” Management Science, 65 (3), 1115-1135 (authors ordered alphabetically)
- K. Ghobadi, T. Lee, H. Mahmoudzadeh, D. Terekhov “Robust inverse optimization,” Operations Research Letters, 46 (3), 339-344 (authors ordered alphabetically)
- O. Tavaslioglu, T. Lee, S. Valeva, A. J. Schaefer, “On the structure of the inverse-feasible region of a linear program,” Operations Research Letters, 46 (1), 147-152
- T. C. Y. Chan, T. Lee, “Trade-off preservation in inverse multi-objective convex optimization,” European Journal of Operational Research, 270 (1), 25-39 (authors ordered alphabetically)
- J. J. Boutilier, T. Lee, T. Craig, M. B. Sharpe, T. C. Y. Chan, “Models for predicting objective function weights in prostate cancer IMRT,” Medical Physics, 42 (4), 1586–1595
- T. C. Y. Chan, T. Craig, T. Lee, M. B. Sharpe, “Generalized inverse multi-objective optimization with application to cancer therapy,” Operations Research, 62 (3), 680–695 (authors ordered alphabetically)
- T. Lee, M. Hammad, T. C. Y. Chan, T. Craig, M. B. Sharpe, “Predicting objective function weights from patient anatomy in prostate IMRT treatment planning,” Medical Physics, 40 (12), 121706