ISE Seminar Series

  The Lehigh ISE Seminar Series is a component of the Spencer C. Schantz Lecture Program.

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 ISE Seminar Series Spring 2025

 Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2025

 ISE Seminar Speaker: Jose L. Walteros, University of Buffalo

 Title: Recent Developments for Solving a General Class of Interdependent Multistage Interdiction Games

 Location: Mohler Laboratory Room 453

 Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

 Abstract:

Multistage interdiction games are optimization problems that model the strategic interaction between two adversaries—an attacker and a defender—over a sequence of finite, alternating stages. The study of interdiction games has grown significantly in recent years thanks to their ability to guide decision-makers during conflict-driven events. While originally rooted in military applications, these problems have gained considerable traction in various domains, including homeland security, evacuation planning, immunization strategies, energy systems, communications, and transportation. In this talk, we will explore how various methodologies centered around mathematical programming have been successfully applied to solve a broad class of these problems. Our focus will be on a general class of games in which there is a direct—and potentially disruptive—interaction between actions taken by the same player in non-consecutive stages. Such situations frequently arise, for instance, in games where the actions of a player in different stages are constrained by a shared, limited resource. We will present application examples drawn from communication systems and network design problems.

Dr. Jose L. Walteros is an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Buffalo. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida. Dr. Walteros has extensive experience developing exact and approximate solution methods for complex problems across various domains, including attacker-defender games, logistics, transportation and routing, shared-mobility systems management, homeland security, survivable network design, data association, and social network analysis. His work has been supported by several U.S. organizations, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and the Department of Transportation (DOT), among others. He previously served as President of the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group and Vice Chair for Network Optimization in the INFORMS Optimization Society (IOS). Dr. Walteros’s research has been published in leading journals such as Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Networks, Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Programming Computation, Transportation Science, European Journal of Operational Research, and others.