Dr. Adan Vela serves as an Assistant Professor Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems.  He teaches courses in probability, simulation, and optimization.  Dr. Vela received his B.S. from UC Berkeley, M.S. from Stanford University, and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, all in Mechanical Engineering.  While a mechanical engineer by degree, his education and research training are in the areas of aerospace engineering and industrial engineering.  Prior to joining UCF Dr. Vela served as Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a Federal Funding Research and Development Center. Dr. Vela’s primary research domain is in air transportation systems, however his work more broadly focuses on the application of machine learning, modeling, simulation, and optimization to understand and improve decision-making in human-in-the-loop systems.