Research Interests

Mathematical programming (linear, nonlinear, integer, and dynamic). Tight polyhedral representations.
Large-scale optimization with applications to airline, machine, and sports scheduling.
Production planning and retail operations management.

Grants

2010-2012: "Integrated Modeling and Optimization Approaches for Airport Terminal Area Management." Agency: Qatar National Research Fund, National Priorities Research Program. Role: Lead Principal Investigator; with Co-PI Ghaith Rabadi, Old Dominion University, and Co-LPI Ameer Al-Salem, Qatar University. Award: $493,032.67.
2008-2009: "Optimization of Aircraft Arrival and Departure Schedules in Multiple-Runway Airports." Agency: Faculty Research Grant/Healey Endowment Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Award: $6,990.

Sherali, H. D. and Ghoniem, A. (2008), Joint vehicle assembly-routing problems: An integrated modeling and optimization approach, Networks, 53 (3), 249-265. (link)
Ghoniem, A. and Sherali, H. D. (2009), Complementary column generation and bounding approaches for set partitioning formulations, Optimization Letters, 3 (1), 123-136. (link)
Ghoniem, A. and Sherali, H. D. (2010), Models and algorithms for the scheduling of a doubles tennis training tournament, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 61, 723-731. (link).
Ghoniem, A. and Sherali, H. D., Set partitioning and packing versus assignment formulations for subassembly matching problems, Journal of the Operational Research Society, forthcoming.
Ghoniem, A. and Sherali, H. D., Defeating symmetry in combinatorial optimization via objective perturbations and hierarchical constraints, IIE Transactions, under review after 2 revisions.
Ghoniem, A., Scherrer, C. R., and Solak, S., Vehicle routing with demand allocation for nonprofit distribution operations, submitted.
Solak, S., Scherrer, C. R., and Ghoniem, A., The stop and drop problem in nonprofit distribution networks, submitted.

Musa, R., Chen F. F., and Ghoniem, A. S. (2006), Dynamic variation reduction technique in assembly lines after batch inspection, IERC, Orlando, FL, May 2006.

A column generation approach for joint vehicle assembly-routing problems, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 13, 2009 (invited talk).
Joint optimization of aircraft arrival and departure schedules, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 11, 2009 (invited talk).
Joint assortment, pricing, and ordering in retail management, IIE Annual Conference and Expo, Miami, FL, June 2, 2009 (invited talk).
Joint vehicle assembly-routing problems: an integrated modeling and optimization approach, UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter, October 24, 2008.
Symmetry compatible formulations via objective perturbations and hierarchical constraints, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., October 13, 2008 (invited talk).
Joint vehicle assembly-routing problems: an integrated modeling and optimization approach, Virginia Tech INFORMS Student Chapter, May 2, 2007.

2009: Outstanding Faculty Support Award, INFORMS Chapter, UMass Amherst.
1997-1999: Awarded an Excellence Scholarship by the French government.
1997: Ranked 1st at the French Baccalauréat exam for French schools in the Middle East.

Referee for: Computational Management Science; European Journal of Operational Research; IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems; Journal of Global Optimization; Journal of the Operational Research Society.
2005-2006 President, INFORMS Student Chapter, Virginia Tech.