Date Updated
12-15-2024
Department
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Academic Rank
Professor
Year Retired from SJSU
2024
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Educational Background
University of California, Berkeley, Operations Research, Ph.D. 1984
University of Texas at Dallas, Mathematical Statistics, MS, 1979
National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, Applied Mathematics, BS, 1976
Teaching Experience
SJSU, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (1999-2024)
Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of operations research, information engineering, statistics, quality assurance, reliability, design and analysis of statistical experiment, etc. Supervising student research at the graduate level.
SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Fall 2009-Summer 2010 Mumbai, India
Honors and Awards:
Davidson College of Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship
San Jose State University Representative Scholar
Teacher-Scholar
The Applied Materials Award for Excellence in Teaching
Donald Newnan Teaching Excellence Award
The McCoy Family Faculty Award for Excellence in Service
Administrative and Professional Experience
1/2022 - 5/2022 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering San Jose State University, San Jose, California; Acting Chair
6/2001 - Present Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering San Jose State University, San Jose, California; Associate and Full Professor; Graduate Advisor
1/2018 - June 2020 Associate Dean for Extended Studies, Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering, San Jose State University (40% time)
11/2009 - Present SP Jain Institute of Management and Research Mumbai, India; PGDM (two-year MBA), PGPM (one-year MBA); Adjunct Professor of Management Science
8/1999 - 6/2001 Department of Computer, Information and Systems Engineering San Jose State University, San Jose, California; Associate Professor; Graduate Advisor
3/1992 - 6/2001 Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Assistant, Associate and Full Research Engineer (Intelligent Transportation Systems & Aviation)
6/1988 - 2/1992 AT & T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Member of Technical Staff (Network Transport and Realization Planning Dept.)
7/1986 - 6/1988 Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ Member of Technical Staff (Local Network Planning Dept.)
1/1987 - 6/1987 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Adjunct Professor; Taught a graduate course in Forecasting and Time Series in the Department of Industrial Engineering
9/1984 - 7/1986 Consilium Associates, Inc., Mountain View, California; Software Development Engineer; Computer Aid Manufacturing (CAM)
See CV for Externally Funded Research Projects as PI or Co-PI Since Joining SJSU in August 1999
Service
10/2010 - 9/2015 Area Editor of Statistics, Quality and Reliability for Computers and Industrial Engineering, an international journal published by Elsevier.
3/2006 - 2/2010 Member, Vehicle Design Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
See CV for Service to San Jose State University
See CV for Professional Services and Journal Editorship
Selected Publications
Books
Testing and Quality Assurance for Component-Based Software, J. Gao, H.-S.J. Tsao and Y. Wu, Artech House Publishers, September 2003.
Entropy Optimization and Mathematical Programming, S.-C. Fang, J.R. Rajasekera and H.-S.J. Tsao, Kluwer Academic Publishers, September, 1997.
Articles
Hongrui Liu, Ayca Erdogan, Royce Lin and H. S.Jacob Tsao. "Mathematical models of political districting for more representative governments," Computers and Industrial Engineering Vol. 140 (2020). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_rsca/1545/
Huadong Meng, Jacob Tsao, Kun Zhou, Justin Picar, Bradley Mizuno, and Wei-Bin Zhang. "Development and Field Testing of an Interactive Transit Station Information System (ITSIS) Using Connected Vehicle Technologies," PATH Research Report (2017). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/16/
H.-S. Jacob Tsao and Magdalini Eirinaki. "A Human-centered Credit-banking System for Convenient, Fair and Secure Carpooling among Members of an Association" Procedia Manufacturing (2015): 3599-3606. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/28/
Li Jingquan, H.-S. Jacob Tsao, Ching-Yao Chan, Kun Zhou, and Wei-Bin Zhang. "Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Toolbox: BRT Person Throughput-Vehicle Congestion Tradeoffs" Institute of Transportation Studies (2015). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/11/
H.-S. Jacob Tsao and Minnie Patel. "A general intuitive design pattern for optimally sequencing treatment combinations in 2k factorial experiment and a simple estimation algorithm" Computers & Industrial Engineering (2015): 423-436. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/17/
Jacob Tsao and A Pratama. "Efficient Space Dedication to Bus Rapid Transit or Light Rail Systems" Journal of Public Transportation (2013): 79-94. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/32/
H.-S. Jacob Tsao and Minnie Patel. "An intuitive design pattern for sequentially estimating parameters of a 2k factorial experiment with active confounding avoidance and least treatment combinations" Computers & Industrial Engineering (2013): 601-613. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/18/
Jacob Tsao, S Venkatsubramanyan, S Parikh and P Sarkar. "ICT Leap-frogging Enabled by Cloud Computing for Emerging Economies: A Case on Streamlining India’s Grain Supply Chains" International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (2012)
Jacob Tsao and A. Pratama. "A Maximum-Entropy Approach to Minimizing Resource Contention in Aircraft Routing for Optimization of Airport Surface Operations" International Journal of information and Decision Sciences, Special Issue on Information Entropy Vol. 3 Iss. 4 (2011)
W. T. Wang, H. M. Wee and Jacob Tsao. "Revisiting the Note on Supply Chain Integration in Vendor-Managed Inventory" Decision Support Systems Vol. 48 (2010)
H.-S. Jacob Tsao, Wenbin Wei, and Agus Pratama. "Feasibility Of One–Dedicated–Lane Bus Rapid Transit ⁄Light–Rail Systems And Their Expansion To Two–Dedicated–Lane Systems: A Focus On Geometric Configuration And Performance Planning, MTI Report 08-01" Mineta Transportation Institute (2009). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/mti_publications/34/
N Patel and Jacob Tsao. "Forward Apportionment of Censored Counts for Discrete Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Failure Probabilities" International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering Vol. 16 Iss. 3 (2009)
Jacob Tsao, Wenbin Wei and Agus Pratama. "Operational Feasibility of One-dedicated-lane Bus Rapid Transit/Light-rail Systems" Transportation Planning and TechnologyVol. 32 Iss. 3 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1080/03081060903017085
K Rangavajhula and Jacob Tsao. "Command Steering of Trailers and Command-steering-based Optimal Control of an Articulated System for Tractor-track Following" Journal of Automobile Engineering Vol. 222 Iss. 6 (2008)
Jacob Tsao and Hongrui Liu. "Optimal Sequencing of Test Conditions in 2^k Factorial Experimental Design for Run-Size Minimization" Computers and Industrial Engineering Vol. 55 (2008)
Belle Wei and Jacob Tsao. "Global Technology Initiative Study Tour To Asia At San Jose State University" ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition (2007): 12.786.1-12.786.10. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/29/
Y Dessouky, Jacob Tsao, M Patel, J B Zeta, et al.. "A Simulation Study of the Productivity of Large Trucks with Shorter Trailers" International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering Vol. 2 Iss. 3 (2007)
K Rangavajhula and Jacob Tsao. "Active Trailer Steering Control of an Articulated System with a Tractor and Three Full Trailers for Tractor-track Following" International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems Vol. 14 Iss. 3 (2007)
K Rangavajhula and Jacob Tsao. "Effect of Multi-Axle Steering on Off-Tracking and Dynamic Lateral Response of Articulated Tractor-Trailer Combinations" International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems Vol. 14 Iss. 4 (2007)
Jacob Tsao and Irene W Wibowo. "A Method for Identifying a Minimal Set of Test Conditions in 2^k Experimental Design" Computers and Industrial Engineering Vol. 48 (2005)
H.-S. Jacob Tsao, Lan Zhang, Lin Lin, and Deepa Batni. "Evaluation of Bus and Truck Automation Operations Concepts" PATH Research Report (2004). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/9/
H.-S. Jacob Tsao and Jan Botha. "Definition and Evaluation of Bus and Truck Automation Operations Concepts" PATH Research Report (2002). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/10/
Jacob Tsao and Jan L Botha. "An Automated Highway System Dedicated To Inter-City Trucking: Design Options, Operating Concepts And Deployment" Intelligent Transportation Systems Journal (The ITS Journal) Vol. 7 Iss. 2 (2002)
Shyh-Huei Chen, Shu-Cherng Fang and Jacob Tsao. "Entropic Perturbation Method for Solving Systems of Linear Inequalities" Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics Vol. 145 (2002)
Randolph W. Hall, Ali Nowroozi, and Jacob Tsao. "Entrance Capacity of an Automated Highway System" Transportation Science Vol. 50 Iss. 1 (2001): 19-36. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/4/
Jacob Tsao. "A Framework for Evaluating Deployment Strategies for Intelligent Transportation Systems" Intelligent Transportation Systems Journal (The ITS Journal) Vol. 6 (2001)
H.-S. Jacob Tsao and Asim Rizwan. "The Role Of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) In Intermodal Air Cargo Operations" Research report - Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California (2000). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/19/
James A Misener, Jacob Tsao, Bongsob Song and Aaron Steinfeld. "The Emergence of a Cognitive Car Following Driver Model with Application to Rear-End Crashes with a Stopped Lead Vehicle" Transportation Research Record 1724 (2000)
H.-S. Jacob Tsao. "A Five-Year Development Plan for the California Aviation Database" Working Paper - Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California (1999). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/21/
H.-S. Jacob Tsao. "A Decision-Oriented Framework for Evaluating Deployment Strategies for Intelligent Transportation Systems" PATH Research Report (1999). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/20/
H.-S. Jacob Tsao and Da-Jie Lin. "Spatial and Temporal Factors in Estimating the Potential of Ride-sharing for Demand Reduction" PATH Research Report (1999). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/15/
H.-S. Jacob Tsao. "The Role of Air Cargo in California's Goods Movement" Research report - Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California (1998). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/26/
Jacob Tsao. "An Axiomatic Approach to Developing Partial Automation Concepts for Deployment of Automated Highway Systems and Partial Invocation of Vision-Based Lane-Keeping and Adaptive Cruise Control" Transportation Research Record Iss. 1651 (1998)
Jacob Tsao. "From the Guest Editor" Intelligent Transportation Systems Journal (The ITS Journal) on Automated Highway Systems (1998)
M Al-Kadri, H Benouar and Jacob Tsao. "Intermediate Automation Concepts for Evolution toward Automated Highway Systems" Transportation Research Record Iss. 1651 (1998)
Jacob Tsao, Randolph W. Hall, and Indrajit Chatterjee. "Analytical Models for Vehicle/Gap Distribution on Automated Highway Systems" Transportation Science (1997): 18-33. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/1/
Shu-Cherng Fang and Jacob Tsao. "Perturbing Dual Feasible Region for Solving Convex Quadratic Programs" Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications Vol. 94 Iss. 1 (1997)
B Ran, S Johnson, S Leight and Jacob Tsao. "Traffic Analysis for Highway-to-Highway Interchanges on Automated Highway Systems: Congestion in Absence of Dedicated Ramps" Transportation Research Record 1588: Planning and Administration; Highway Operations, Capacity, and Traffic Control (1997)
Hong Lo, Wei-Hua Lin, Lawrence Liao, Elbert Chang, and Jacob Tsao. "A Comparison Of Traffic Models: Part 1, Framework" PATH Research Report (1996). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/12/
H.-S. Jacob Tsao. "Dynamic Traffic Assignment for Automated Highway Systems: A Two-Lane Highway with Speed Constancy" PATH Working Paper (1996). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/24/
H.-S. Jacob Tsao. "Constraints on Initial AHS Deployment and the Concept Definition of a Shuttle Service for AHS Debut" PATH Research Report (1996). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/23/
H.-S. Jacob Tsao. "Stage Definition for AHS Deployment and an AHS Evolutionary Scenario" PATH Research Report (1996). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/25/
Jacob Tsao and Shu-Cherng Fang. "Linear Programming with Inequality Constraints via Entropic Perturbation" International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (1996): 177-184. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/2/
Shu-Cherng Fang and Jacob Tsao. "On the Entropic Perturbation and Exponential Penalty Methods for Linear Programming" Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications Vol. 90 Iss. 1 (1996)
Shu-Cherng Fang and Jacob Tsao. "A Dual Perturbation View of Linear Programming" Mathematical Methods of Operations Research Vol. 44 Iss. 1 (1996)
Jacob Tsao. "A Weak Law of Large Numbers for a Class of Non-Stationary Vector ARMA Processes with One Unit Root" Stochastic Analysis and Applications Vol. 14 Iss. 3 (1996)
Shu-Cherng Fang and Jacob Tsao. "An Efficient Computational Procedure for Solving Entropy Optimization Problems with Infinitely Many Linear Constraints" Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics Vol. 72 (1996)
Shu-Cherng Fang and Jacob Tsao. "Solving Linear Programs with Inequality Constraints via Perturbation of Feasible Region" Optimization Vol. 37 (1996)
H.-S. Jacob Tsao. "Traffic Control for Automated Highway Systems: A Conceptual Framework" PATH Research Report (1995). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/27/
Jacob Tsao. "A Staggered-Diamond Design for Automated/Manual-HOV Highway-to-Highway Interchanges and Constraints on AHS Design for Accommodating Automated Highway Change" Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems Journal (IVHS Journal) (1995): 281-292. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/6/
Jacob Tsao. "Stage Definition for AHS Deployment and an AHS Evolutionary Scenario" Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems Journal (IVHS Journal) (1995): 359-382. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/8/
Shu-Cherng Fang and Jacob Tsao. "Linearly-Constrained Entropy Maximization Problem with Quadratic Costs and Its Applications to Transportation Planning Problems" Transportation Science (1995): 353-365. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/3/
Jacob Tsao. "Stage Definition for AHS Deployment and an AHS Evolutionary Scenario" Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems Journal (IVHS Journal) Vol. 2 Iss. 4 (1995)
Wen-Jui Li, Jacob Tsao and Osman Ulular. "The Shortest Path with at Most L nodes in Each of the Series/Parallel Clusters" Networks Vol. 26 (1995)
Jacob Tsao. "Traffic Control for Automated Highway Systems: A Conceptual Framework" Transportation Research, Part C Vol. 3 Iss. 4 (1995)
H.-S. Jacob Tsao. "A Functional Architecture for Automated Highway Traffic Planning" PATH Research Report (1994). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/22/
H.-S. Jacob Tsao, Randolph Hall, and Bruce Hongola. "Capacity Of Automated Highway Systems: Effect Of Platooning And Barriers" PATH Research Report (1994). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/13/
Jacob Tsao and Randolph Hall. "A Probabilistic Model for AVCS Longitudinal Collision/Safety Analysis" Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems Journal (IVHS Journal) Vol. 1 Iss. 3 (1994): 261-274. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/5/
Shu-Cherng Fang and Jacob Tsao. "A Quadratically Convergent Global Algorithm for the Linearly-Constrained Minimum Cross-Entropy Problem" European Journal of Operations Research Vol. 79 Iss. 2 (1994)
Jacob Tsao. "Constraints on Initial AHS Deployment and the Concept Definition of a Shuttle Service for AHS Debut" Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems Journal (IVHS Journal) (1994): 159-173. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/7/
H.-S. Jacob Tsao and Randolph Hall. "A Probabilistic Model and a Software Tool for AVCS Longitudinal Collision/Safety Analysis" PATH Working Paper (1993). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/indust_syst_eng_pub/14/
Jacob Tsao, Shu-Cherng Fang and D N Lee. "A Bayesian Interpretation of the Linearly-Constrained Cross-Entropy Minimization Problem" Engineering Optimization Vol. 22 Iss. 1 (1993)
Shu-Cherng Fang and Jacob Tsao. "An Unconstrained Convex Programming Approach to Solving Convex Quadratic Programming Problems" Optimization Vol. 27 (1993)
Shu-Cherng Fang and Jacob Tsao. "Linear Programming with Entropic Perturbation" Zeitschrift fur Operations Research Vol. 37 Iss. 2 (1993)
Jacob Tsao, Shu-Cherng Fang and D N Lee. "On the Optimal Entropy Analysis" European Journal of Operations Research Vol. 59 (1992)
Book Chapters
Yasser Dessouky, Gladis Valladares, Carmen Valladares, Minnie H. Patel, H.-S. Jacob Tsao. "Simulating Performance for One-Dedicated-Lane Light Rail System—A Case Study" ILisbon, PortugalIndustrial Engineering and Operations Management I. XXIVIJCIEOM 2018 Vol. 280 (2019)
Shu-Cherng Fang and Jacob Tsao. "Entropy Optimization: Interior Point Methods" Encyclopedia of Optimization Vol. 2 (2001)
Jacob Tsao. "Entropy Optimization: Shannon Measure of Entropy and Its Properties" Encyclopedia of Optimization Vol. 2 (2001)
Shu-Cherng Fang and Jacob Tsao. "Principle of Maximum Entropy: Image Reconstruction" Encyclopedia of Optimization Vol. 3 (2001)
Randolph W Hall and Jacob Tsao. "Automated Highway System Deployment: A Preliminary Assessment of Uncertainties" New yorkAutomated Highway Systems (1997)
Bart van Arem and Jacob Tsao. "The Development of Automated Vehicle Guidance Systems - Commonalities and Differences Between the State of California and the Netherlands" Warrendale, PAAdvances in Intelligent Transportation System Design (1997)
See CV for Peer-reviewed Papers Published in Recent Conference Proceedings
See CV for Selected Recent Non-Refereed Reports
Files
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Personal Commentary
12/08-present Efficis Inc., San Ramon, California President Consulting for Silicon Valley companies, e.g., for Genencor (originally a joint venture between Genentech and Corning and currently a division of the Danish bio-tech firm Danisco) on design of experiments for bio-tech.