Dusan N. Sormaz
Part-Time Professor of Industrial Engineering
Education
- PhD Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, 1994
- MS Computer Science, University of Southern California, 1995
- MS Industrial Engineering, University of Novi Sad, 1985
- BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Novi Sad, 1979
Current Courses
IDE 461 Facility Design
Research Interests
Dr. Šormaz’s principal research interests are in Ontologies, Simulation, Additive Manufacturing, Process Planning, Semantic Data Integration, and application of knowledge based systems in manufacturing. He has worked on research projects sponsored by NIST, Delphi Automotive, GE, MVESC, and major oil companies in the areas of manufacturing process planning, cost estimation, bus scheduling, and corrosion modeling and prediction software.
Dr. Šormaz joined the Department of Engineering as Adjunct Faculty in Spring 2026 after teaching industrial and systems engineering courses at Ohio University for 27 years where he holds Professor Emeritus status.
Dr. Šormaz has published over 40 refereed papers in scholarly journals and more than 170 conference papers and book chapters. He has also delivered 15 keynotes, workshops and tutorials and more than 60 contributed presentations at international research events. Dr. Šormaz has organized several international conferences. He was the General Chair of the 28th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, FAIM2018 in Columbus and the General Chair of ICPR Americas 2024, International Conference on Production Research Americas Region in Athens, OH.
Dr. Šormaz is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (IJIEM), he edited a special issue of International Journal of Production Research, and a special issue of Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM) Journal. He has been a member of The International Foundation for Production Research (IFPR) Board since 2019 and its Vice-President for Americas Region since 2024.
Dr. Šormaz has received the IISE Lean Division’s Lean Teaching Award in 2018. He was finalist for Presidential Teacher Award at Ohio University in 2017. His student team received the 1st place among 220 teams from 11 countries in the Global simulation competition sponsored by Simio company held in 2017. His graduate student team was a runner up in NIST/ASME RAMP competition held at ASME MSEC Conference in 2017.
Selected Publications
- Mayur Wakhare, Dušan Šormaz, Mandvi Fuloria, Artificial intelligence-based setup planning expert system for 3-axis and 4-axis machining for Industry 4.0, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 1-26, 2026
- Dušan N Šormaz, Bopaya Bidanda, Omar Alhawari, Zhaohui Geng, (editors) Intelligent Production and Industry 5.0 with Human Touch, Resilience, and Circular Economy: Transactions of the 12th International Conference on Production Research–ICPR Americas 2024, Springer Nature, 2025
- F Ameri, D Sormaz, F Psarommatis, D Kiritsis, Industrial ontologies for interoperability in agile and resilient manufacturing, International Journal of Production Research 60 (2), 420-441, 2022
- Arkopaul Sarkar, Dušan Šormaz, David Koonce, and Sharmake Farah, Developing a Resource-based Manufacturing Process Capability Ontology, The International Conference of Production Research, ICPR - Americas 2020, December 2020, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
- D Šormaz, A Sarkar, SIMPM–Upper-level ontology for manufacturing process plan network generation, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing 55, 183-198 9 2019
- Barry Smith, Farhad Ameri, Hyunmin Cheong, Dimitris Kiritsis, Dusan Sormaz, Chris Will & J. Neil Otte A First-Order Logic Formalization of the Industrial Ontology Foundry Signature Using Basic Formal Ontology, In Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO), Graz (2019), FOMI2019, 23-25 September 2019, Graz, Austria
Education
- PhD Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, 1994
- MS Computer Science, University of Southern California, 1995
- MS Industrial Engineering, University of Novi Sad, 1985
- BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Novi Sad, 1979
Current Courses
IDE 461 Facility Design
Research Interests
Dr. Šormaz’s principal research interests are in Ontologies, Simulation, Additive Manufacturing, Process Planning, Semantic Data Integration, and application of knowledge based systems in manufacturing. He has worked on research projects sponsored by NIST, Delphi Automotive, GE, MVESC, and major oil companies in the areas of manufacturing process planning, cost estimation, bus scheduling, and corrosion modeling and prediction software.