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Gino (Jinho) Lim, Ph.D.

Education:	PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Office:	E-211, Engineering Bldg 2 Department of Industrial Engineering (713) 743 - 4194
Email:	ginolim@uh.edu
Research interest:	Optimization, Operations Research Applications in Health Systems, Process Control, and Forecasting Models and Analysis.

Currently, UNDER CONSTRUCTION

2004 - Current: Assistant Professor, University of Houston.
2004 - Current: Director of Systems Optimization and Computing Laboratory, University of Houston.
2003: Post-doctoral Research Associate, UW-Madison
Optimization in radiation treatment planning

Wisconsin Week: "If ever a medical procedure seemed in dire need of technological support, this would be it...."

Science Daily Magazine: "Computer Program Lends New Precision To "Gamma Knife"

Beyond 2000: "Entrusting anyone with the contents of your skull is a scary thought,..."

INVACARE: "Computers Help Treat Serious Medical Conditions "

GlobalTechnoScan.com: "Computer program lends new precision to 'Gamma Knife' "

Pierskalla Best Paper Award, INFORMS, San Jose, CA, 2002.

Vilas Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002-2003

Travel Grant Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002-2003.

Travel Award, FASEB/MARC, Tucson, AZ, 2004

Mathematical Programming: I am interested in solving large scale optimization problems in medical applications using state-of-the-art modeling language, GAMS. Recently we have developed an optimization model for the Gamma Knife radiosurgery treatment planning using Nonlinear programming. This program is in use to treat cancer patients at the University of Maryland hospital since February 2001.
Stochastic Modeling and Simulation: In practice, many problems have uncertainty in their future behavior. Some problems can be solved using known formulae, but others cannot. The statistical tools are powerful to capture this uncertainty.
Statistical Process Control, Dynamic programming
Bayesian Statistics, Inventory control, Forecasting

D.M. Shepard, Z. Jiang, M.A. Earl, M.C. Ferris, Jinho Lim, and S. Naqvi, "A Toolbox for IMRT Optimization," submitted to Medical Physics, April 2003.

Jinho Lim, Michael C. Ferris, and David M. Shepard, "Optimization tools for radiation treatment planning,", Optimization Technical Report 03-01, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2003.

Jinho Lim, Michael C. Ferris, David M. Shepard, Stephen J. Wright, and Matthew A. Earl "An optimization framework for conformal radiation treatment planning,", Accepted for publication, INFORMS Journal On Computing, July 2003.

D.M. Shepard, L. Chin, S. DiBiase, S. Naqvi, Jinho Lim, M.C. Ferris, "Clinical implementation of an automated planning system for Gamma Knife radiosurgery", International Journal of Radiation Oncology, vol 56, no. 5, pp 1488-1494, 2003.

Michael C. Ferris, Jinho Lim, and David Shepard, "An optimization approach for the radiosurgery treatment planning", SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol 13, no 3, pp 921-937, 2003.

Michael C. Ferris, Jinho Lim, and David Shepard, "Radiosurgery Optimization via Nonlinear Programming", Annals of Operations Research, vol 119, pp 247-260, 2003.

Harriet Black Nembhard, Ming-Shu Kao, and Gino(Jinho) Lim, "Integrating Discrete-Event Simulation with Statistical Process Control Charts for Transitions in a Manufacturing Environment" ,Proceedings of the 1999 Winter Simulations Conference - Manufacturing Applications,pp 701-708,1999.

Jinho Lim, "Optimization in radiation treatment planning,", December 2002, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

"Robust optimization models for radiation treatment planning," University of Houston, November 2003.

"An optimization framework for three-dimensional radiation treatment planning," The First International Workshop on IMRT, Fort Lauderdale, FL, January 2003

"An optimization tool for conformal radiotherapy," MOPTA conference, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, August 2002

"An optimization framework for radiosurgery treatment planning," Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2002