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Raz developing advanced model-based tools for portfolio management

2023-12-11
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Raz Developing Advanced Model-Based Tools For Portfolio Management

Ali Raz, Professor, Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR), received funding for the project: "Advanced Model-Based Tools for Portfolio Management and Analytic: System Architecture and Multi-Attribute Decision Making for Integrating Autonomy Phase 2 (AIRC RT-1081.07.5)."

Raz is supporting Purdue University and Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in the enhancement of the IAPR System-of-systems (SoS) tool suite.

Raz received $20,500 from Stevens Institute of Technology on a subaward from the U.S. Department of Defense for this project. Funding began in Oct. 2023 and will end in late July 2024.

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