Welcome!
I am the Harvey E. Wagner Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Deputy Provost for Faculty Affairs at Lehigh University. My main research interests lie in the area of applied operations research, especially optimization models and algorithms for supply chain management, as well as for energy systems such as Smart Grids. I am a member of Lehigh’s Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation (I-DISC) and the Computational Optimization Research at Lehigh (COR@L) laboratory.
New Class: ISE/WGSS 296, Algorithms and Social Justice
Professors Suzanne Edwards (WGSS and English) and Larry Snyder (ISE)
This course explores how algorithms—from Internet search engines to predictive policing software to resume screening systems—reflect and magnify social inequality. Students will read and discuss scholarship on the history of science and technology, feminist/critical race theory, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI). The course also has a computing component, with hands-on experiments and projects. Course topics include race, gender, sexuality, and class in the context of criminal justice and policing, search engines and social media, ranking and rating, and optimization. More info…
Recent Presentations
I gave a talk on ML bias and fairness at the @LehighOptML seminar in September 2021, aimed at OR/optimization people who know ML but not much about ML ethics. The slides are here, or see this Twitter thread.
I gave a talk on multi-echelon inventory optimization under the threat of disruptions in November 2020 at the Carnegie Mellon EWO seminar. Click for slides or video.
Books
My textbook, Fundamentals of Supply Chain Theory, co-authored with Max Shen, was published by Wiley in August, 2011. The second edition was published in July, 2019.
For something a bit lighter, check out my book The Opex Analytics Weekly Puzzle:: A Collection of Puzzles Using Math, Operations Research, Computer Science, Probability and Logic, published in December, 2018.
Or Volume II, published in 2019!
Futurum Article
From platinum to smartphone: How maths models can be used to streamline supply chains
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Contact
Larry Snyder
Deputy Provost for Faculty Affairs
Professor, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
200 West Packer Ave., Mohler Lab
Bethlehem, PA 18015
610 758 6696 (office)
E-mail:
Web: coral.ise.lehigh.edu/larry
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2227-7030
Twitter: @LarrySnyder610
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