Assistant Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track Director of Undergraduate Programs in Systems Engineering Systems ME and VEO Advisor
Bio
Ph.D. Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (2015)M.S.E. Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (2011)B.S.I.E. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Minor, Kettering University (2008)
My research interest include integer programming and combinatorial optimization, healthcare systems engineering, Six Sigma and process improvement, applying lean enterprise to healthcare and manufacturing applications, optimization of disassembly and remanufacturing systems.
Awards
Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Selected by students in Systems Engineering2021, 2022
Professor of the Year in Industrial Engineering, Clemson University2019
Byars Prize for Teaching Excellence, Clemson University2016
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow2010
Research Interests
Optimization and Operations Research
Lean and Six Sigma
Healthcare Systems Engineering
Game Theory
Selected Publications
Social Choice Rules, Fallback Bargaining, and Related Games in Common Resource Conflicts ABS Bahrini, A., Riggs, R.J., and Esmaeli, M., Journal of Hydrology, 602(10), 2021
Profit-oriented partial disassembly line design: dealing with hazardous parts and task processing times uncertainty ABSBentah, M.L., Dolgui, A., Battaia, O., Riggs, R.J., and Hu, S.J., International Journal of Production Research, 56(24), 2018
Two-stage sequence generation for partial disassembly of products with sequence dependent task times ABSRiggs, R.J., Jin, X., and Hu, S.J., Procedia CIRP, 29, 2015
Disassembly line balancing under high variety of end of life states using a joint precedence graph approach ABSRiggs, R.J., Battaïa, O., and Hu, S.J., Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 37(3), 2015
Disassembly liaison graphs inspired by word clouds ABSRiggs, R.J., and Hu, S.J, Procedia CIRP, 7, 521-526, 2013
