Douglas M King

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Education

• Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, May 2012, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• M.S. in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering, May 2006, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• B.S. in General Engineering, May 2002, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Academic Positions

• Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, August 2019 - Present
• Senior Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, August 2017 - August 2019
• Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, March 2014 - August 2017
• Visiting Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, August 2012 - March 2014

Selected Articles in Journals

• "A framework for analyzing the periodically-observed time-homogeneous Poisson process" (Z. Hornberger, D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson), Journal of the Operational Research Society (to appear)
• "Facilitating Compromise in Redistricting with Transfer Distance Midpoints" (K.W. Dobbs, D.M. King, I.G. Ludden, S.H. Jacobson), INFORMS Journal on Computing (to appear)
• "A practical optimization framework for political redistricting: A case study in Arizona" (R. Swamy, D.M. King, I.G. Ludden, K.W. Dobbs, S.H. Jacobson), Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 92 101836; April, 2024.
• "An Optimization Case Study in Analyzing Missouri Redistricting" (K.W. Dobbs, R. Swamy, D.M. King, I.G. Ludden, S.H. Jacobson), INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics 54(2):162-187; March-April, 2024.
• "Redistricting optimization with recombination: A local search case study" (K.W. Dobbs, D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson), Computers & Operations Research 160 106369; December, 2023.
• "3D geo-graphs: Efficient flip verification for the spherical zoning problem" (I.G. Ludden, D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson), Discrete Applied Mathematics 338 329-346; October, 2023.
• "A bisection protocol for political redistricting" (I.G. Ludden, R. Swamy, D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson), INFORMS Journal on Optimization 5(3) 233-255; Summer 2023.
• "Multi-objective Optimization for Politically Fair Districting: A Scalable Multilevel Approach" (R. Swamy, D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson), Operations Research 71(2) 536-562; March-April 2023.
• "Models for Generating NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Bracket Pools" (I.G. Ludden, A. Khatibi, D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson), Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sports 16(1) 1-15; March 2020.
• "Is Promoting Public Transit an Effective Intervention for Obesity? A Longitudinal Study of the Relation between Public Transit Usage and Obesity" (Z. She, D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson), Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 119 162-169; January 2019.
• "The Geo-Graph in Practice: Creating United States Congressional Districts from Census Blocks" (D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson, E.C. Sewell), Computational Optimization and Applications 69(1) 25-49; January 2018.
• "Random acts of violence? Examining probabilistic independence of the temporal distribution of mass killing events in the United States" (D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson), Violence and Victims 32(6) 1014-1023; December 2017.
• “Analyzing the Impact of Public Transit Usage on Obesity” (Z. She, D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson), Preventive Medicine 99 264-268; June, 2017.
• "What is driving obesity? A review on the connections between obesity and motorized transportation" (D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson), Current Obesity Reports 6(1) 3-9; March, 2017.
• "Efficient geo-graph contiguity and hole algorithms for geographic zoning and dynamic plane graph partitioning" (D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson, E.C. Sewell), Mathematical Programming Series A 149(1-2) 425-457; February, 2015.
• "Modeling the winning seed distribution of the NCAA Division I men׳s basketball tournament" (A. Khatibi, D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson), OMEGA 50 141-148; January, 2015.
• "Seatbelt usage: Is there an association with obesity?"(B. Behzad, D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson), Public Health 128(9) 799-803; September, 2014.
• "Quantifying the Association between Obesity, Automobile Travel, and Caloric Intake" (B. Behzad, D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson), Preventive Medicine; 56(2) 103-106; February, 2013.
• “Assessing the long term benefit of hand-held wireless device bans while driving” (S.H. Jacobson, D.M. King, K.C. Ryan, M.J. Robbins), Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 46(10) 1586-1593; December, 2012.
• "Geo-Graphs: An efficient model for enforcing contiguity and hole constraints in planar graph partitioning" (D.M. King, S.H. Jacobson, E.C. Sewell, W.K.T. Cho), Operations Research 60(5) 1213-1228; September-October, 2012.
• "Seed distributions for the NCAA men's basketball tournament" (S.H. Jacobson, A.G. Nikolaev, D.M. King, A.J. Lee), OMEGA 39(6) 719-724; December, 2011.
• “A note on the relationship between obesity and driving" (S.H. Jacobson, D.M. King, R. Yuan), Transport Policy 18(5) 772-776; September, 2011.
• "Seeding in the NCAA men's basketball tournament: When is a higher seed better?" (S.H. Jacobson, D.M. King), Journal of Gambling Business and Economics 3(2) 63-87; September, 2009.
• "Fuel saving and ridesharing in the US: Motivations, limitations, and opportunities" (S.H. Jacobson, D.M. King), Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 14(1) 14-21; January, 2009.
• "Measuring the potential for automobile fuel savings in the US: The impact of obesity" (S.H. Jacobson, D.M. King), Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 14(1) 6-13; January, 2009.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• "Using Case Studies to Enhance the Critical Thinking Skills of IE Students" (A. Chronopoulou, K.J. Cross, D.M. King, E. Salimi), Proceedings of the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition; June, 2016

Professional Societies

• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
• Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS)

Research Honors

• 2019 INFORMS Service Science Best Paper Award (First Place)
• 2018 INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award (Finalist)
• 2013 IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award (Second Place)
• 2012 INFORMS Innovation in Analytics Award (Semifinalist)
• 2012 INFORMS Section on Public Programs, Services and Needs (SPPSN) Best Paper Competition (Finalist)

Other Honors

• Engineering Council Outstanding Advising Award (2016, 2017)
• IISE Outstanding Faculty Advisor, North Central Region (2013, 2016)
• Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship recipient (Fall 2010 - Summer 2011)
• Mavis Memorial Fund Scholarship recipient (Fall 2009 - Summer 2010)

Improvement Activities

• Collins Scholar, University of Illinois, Grainger College of Engineering (Fall 2014 - Spring 2015)

Recent Courses Taught

• IE 300 AD1 (IE 300 AD2, IE 300 AD3, IE 300 AD4, IE 300 AL1, IE 300 BL1, IE 300 CL1, IE 300 CLO) - Analysis of Data
• IE 330 - Industrial Quality Control
• IE 400 - Design & Anlys of Experiments
• IE 412 - OR Models for Mfg Systems