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I live in the Greater Waco area with my amazing husband, a perfect cat, two slightly-less-than-perfect dogs, and a crazy toddler.  When I'm not slaving away grading quizzes and dreaming up ways to terrify my students, I run my own business and raise my aforementioned crazy toddler.  I also work as a consultant for 4Frontiers Corporation, leading the effort to develop technical and functional requirements for a permanent Mars settlement.  I am also active in Toastmasters International, a nonprofit group dedicated to helping people improve their public speaking and leadership skills.  I am also active as a space advocate, and am a member of The Mars Society and am self-appointed head cheerleader of SpaceX, a private space company that tests rockets just outside of McGregor.

Technical Papers

• Andreas, A. K., "KKT and Fritz-John Optimality Conditions for Constrained Optimization," under review for the Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science.
• Andreas, A. K.,  "One Room, Three Weeks, Twelve Gifted Teens: Mars or Bust," to appear in TEMPO Magazine | The Quarterly Journal of the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
• Andreas, A. K. and Smith, J. C., “Decomposition Algorithms for the Design of a Non-simultaneous Capacitated Evacuation Tree Network,” Networks, 53(2), 91 – 103, 2009.
• Andreas, A. K., Smith, J. C., and Küçükyavuz, S., “Branch-and-Price-and-Cut Algorithms for Solving the Reliable h-paths Problem,” Journal of Global Optimization, 42(4), 443 – 466, 2008.
• Andreas, A. K. and Smith, J. C., “Mathematical Programming Algorithms for Two-Path Routing Problems with Reliability Constraints,” INFORMS Journal on Computing, 20(4), 553 – 564, 2008.
• Andreas, A. K. and Beichl, I., “Estimating the Work in Integer Partitioning,” IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, 5 (1), January 2003, 48 - 56.

General Audience Articles

• Andreas, A. K. “Engineering a Win,” The Toastmaster, August 2007.

Technical Presentations

• "One Room, Three Weeks, Twelve Gifted Teens: Mars or Bust," Mars Society Convention, Washington, D.C., August 2009
• “Applying the Systems Engineering Process to the Development of a Permanent Mars Colony,” International Space Development Conference, Dallas, Texas, May 2007.
• “3-D Terrain-Following Radar Simulation Using Object-Oriented MATLAB,” Raytheon Processing Systems Technology Network Symposium, El Segundo, California, May 2007.
• “Computing Minimum-Cost h-Independent Paths with Reliability Considerations,” INFORMS Telecommunication Conference, Dallas, Texas, March 2006.
• “Exact Algorithms for Reliable h-Path Routing Problems,” INFORMS Conference, San Francisco, California, November 2005.
• “Exact Algorithms for Robust k-Path Routing Problems,” International Workshop on Global Optimization, Almería, Spain, September 2005.
• “Algorithms for Two-Path Routing Problems with Reliability Considerations,” Institute of Industrial Engineers Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2005.
• “Solving Low-Risk, Low-Cost Routing Problems,” INFORMS Conference, Denver, Colorado, October 2004.
• “Robust Planning Problems,” Institute of Industrial Engineers Conference, Houston, Texas, May 2004.
• “Estimating the Work in Integer Partitioning,” National Institute of Science and Technology, Bethesda, Maryland, August 2003.