Faculty Profile

Payman Jula

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Ind. Eng. and Operations Research (U.C. Berkeley); MS. Eng. IEOR (U.C. Berkeley); M.Sc. Electrical Engineering (U.C. Berkeley); B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering-Electronics...

Burnaby Phone: 778-782-3564
Burnaby Office: WMC 5358

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Biography

Payman Jula joined the Beedie School of Business from the University of Alberta where he won a best visiting professor award from the Business Student Association for his courses on decision analysis, supply chain management, and quantitative management. Payman holds three master's degrees related to industrial and electrical engineering as well as a PhD in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California at Berkley. He is interested in operations management in both the manufacturing and service industries. He has worked with many international high tech companies, including Samsung Semiconductor, Cypress Semiconductor Inc. and Micron Technology, on issues related to cycle time reduction, production planning, scheduling and supply chain management.

Payman says he joined the Beedie School of Business because of the collegial faculty and the opportunity in Vancouver to pursue his interest in outdoor activities, which include soccer and swimming.

Specialization and Research Interests

Production Planning & Scheduling 

Healthcare Scheduling

Supply Chain Management

Transportation and Logistics

Operations Management (Service & Manufacturing)

Selected Publications

Jula P., Kones I. "Scheduling a Single-Machine to Maintain a Dynamic WIP Profile in Coordinated Manufacturing Chains." International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. Vol 59, No 9, pp 1167-1179, 2012.

Leachman, R.C., Jula, P. "Estimating Flow Times for Containerized Imports from Asia to the United States Through the Western Rail Network." Transportation Research Part E - Logistics and Transportation Review. Vol 48, No 1, pp 296-309, 2012.

Jula P., Rafiey, A. "Coordinated scheduling of a Single Machine with Sequence Dependent Setup Times and Time Window Constraints" International Journal of Production Research. DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2011.575089. In press. (Appeared online July 25, 2011).

Leachman, R.C., Jula, P. "Congestion Analysis of Waterborne, Containerized Imports from Asia to the United States." Transportation Research Part E., Vol 47, No 6, pp 992-1004, 2011.

Jula, P., Leachman, R.C. "Long- and Short-Run supply-chain optimization models for the allocation and congestion management of containerized imports from Asia to the United States." Transportation Research Part E, Vol 47, No 5, pp 593-608, 2011.

Jula, P., Leachman, R.C. "A supply-chain optimization model of the allocation of containerized imports from Asia to the United States." Transportation Research Part E, Vol. 47, No 5, pp 609-622, 2011.

Jula P., Leachman R.C. "Coordinated Multistage Scheduling of Parallel Batch-Processing Machines under Multiresource Constraints." Operations Research, Vol. 58, No 4, pp 933-947, July-Aug 2010.

Lashkarian, N., Tousi, K.N., Jula, P., Kiaei, S."Performance Bound on Ergodic Capacity of MIMO Beam-forming in Indoor Multi-path Channels." IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol 58, No 11, pp 3254-3264, Nov 2010.

Lashkarian, N., Heydari, B., Jula, P." Statistical Characterization of Power Amplifier Nonlinearity at 60 GHz: MIMO Beam-forming Analysis" Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Vols 1-8, pp 6089-6094, 2009.

Jula P., Leachman R.C. "Coordinating Decentralized Local Schedulers in Complex Supply Chain Manufacturing"  Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 161, No 1, pp 123-147, July 2008.