Pablo Durango-Cohen

Associate Professor

A332 Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

E-mail address: pdc@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 491-4008
Fax: (847) 491-4011

Curriculum Vitae:

Education

• PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MS, University of California, Berkeley, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• BS, University of Southern California, Industrial and Systems Engineering

Research

• Transportation Infrastructure Management
• Modeling and Analysis of Production Control Systems
• Stochastic and Adaptive Control
• Statistics and Economics

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Teaching Activities

• Gen Eng 205-2 (EA 2) -- Introduction to Engineering Mechanics:  Statics and Dynamics
• Civ Eng 304 -- Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems Analysis
• Civ Eng 483 -- Infrastructure Systems Analysis
• Civ Eng 517 -- Seminar in Transportation Engineering

Honors and Awards

• Grantee of the Senior Specialist Program, 2007, J. William Fulbright Commission
• WCTR Young Author Prize, 2007, World Conference on Transport Research Society
• Faculty CAREER Development Program Award Recipient, 2006-2011, National Science Foundation
• Searle Faculty Fellow, 2003-2004, NU Searle Center for Teaching Excellence
• University of California Transportation Center Student of the Year, 2003
• Louis Berger Junior Professor in Civil Engineering, 2002-2005
• Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California Transportation Center, 2001
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, 2000,  Academic Senate’s Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs, UC Berkeley. Nominated by IEOR faculty
• Best Graduate Student Instructor, 2000, IEOR Department, UC Berkeley, Elected by IEOR students
• Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship for Graduate Studies, 1996-1999, UC Berkeley
• Outstanding Student Award, 1996, ISE Department, USC
• Dean’s Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies, 1992-1996, University of Southern California

Selected Publications

• Durango-Cohen, P. (2007), “An optimal estimation and control framework for the management of infrastructure facilities”, Chapter 9 in The management and measurement of infrastructure:  Performance, efficiency and innovation, C.. Karlsson, W. Anderson, B. Johansson and K. Kobayashi, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 177-197.
•  Durango-Cohen, P. and Madanat, S. (2007), “Optimization of inspection and maintenance decisions for infrastructure facilities under performance model uncertainty:  A Quasi-Bayes approach”, Transportation Resarch Part A: Policy and Practice (In Press).
• Chu, C. and Durango-Cohen, P. (2008), “Estimation of dynamic performance models for transportation infrastructure using panel data”, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 42(1), pp. 57-81.
• Chu, C. and Durango-Cohen, P. (2007), “Estimation of infrastructure performance models using state-space specifications of time series models”, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 15(1), pp. 17-32.
• Durango-Cohen, P. (2007), “A time series analysis framework for transportation infrastructure management”, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 41(5), pp. 493-505.
• Childress, S. and Durango-Cohen, P. (2005), “On parallel machine replacement problems with general replacement cost functions and stochastic deterioration”, Naval Research Logistics, 52(5), pp.409-419.
• Durango-Cohen, P. (2004), "Developing maintenance and repair policies for infrastructure facilities without a deterioration model", ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 10(1), pp. 1-8.
• Durango-Cohen, P. and Madanat, S. (2002), "Optimal maintenance and repair policies in infrastructure management under uncertain facility deterioration rates: an adaptive control approach", Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 36(9), pp. 763-778.

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