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Student: Somair Malik

Office: CoRE 634

E-mail: somair@eden.rutgers.edu

School: Rutgers - New Brunswick: School of Arts and Science

Concentration:
Major: Mathematics, Bio-Mathematics
Minor: Economics

Faculty Advisor:
Dr. E.A. Elsayed, Department of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Minge Xie, Department of Statistics

Project: Optimum Strategies of Container Inspection at Port-of-Entry

About the REU program/DIMACS: The summer REU program at DIMACS has been offered since 1992. DIMACS was founded as one of 24 Science and Technology Centers funded by the NSF. It is located at Rutgers University, and is a joint project of Rutgers, Princeton, AT&T Laboratories , Bell Laboratories, Telcordia Technologies, the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and the NEC Research Institute. DIMACS has over 325 permanent members in mathematics, computer science, and operations research, and hosts many distinguished visitors each year.