Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
Ara Arabyan
Dynamics of rigid and deformable bodies; advanced computational methods in mechanics; biomechanics; simulation of multisegmented biosystems

Thomas F. Balsa
Fluid mechanics; boundary layers, jet noise, nonlinear waves in shear flows

Francis F. Champagne
Experimental fluid mechanics, turbulent shear flows, laminar-turbulent transition, drag reduction, digital data acquisition and signal processing

Cho Lik Chan
Heat transfer, materials processing, boundary element method

Chuan F. Chen
Double-diffusive convection, stability of convective flows, solidification

Eniko T. Enikov
Theoretical and applied research in MEMS applications, design and fabrication; continuum mechanics; dynamics; material science and electromagnetics

Hermann F. Fasel
Computational fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic stability, laminar-turbulent transition, turbulent flows, flow control, non-linear dynamics, aerodynamics

Barry D. Ganapol
Radiation and particle transport theory, fast reactor safety, applied mathematics, satellite remote sensing

Jeffrey W. Jacobs
Experimental fluid mechanics, hydrodynamic instabilities including Richtmyer-Meshkov and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, turbulent mixing, optical flow diagnostics

Dimitri B. Kececioglu
Reliability, maintainability, and availability engineering; operational readiness, system effectiveness; probabilistic design for reliability; reliability and life testing; reliability growth; accelerated, Bayesian, nonparametric, and burn-in testing; environmental stress screening

Edward J. Kerschen
Fluid mechanics and applied mathematics; unsteady flows, hydrodynamic stability and receptivity, aeroacoustics, unsteady aerodynamics

Peiwen Li
Fuel cells and hydrogen generation and storage, energy and power systems, heat mass transfer (in gas turbines, and HVACR), thermal and flow measurement and imaging techniques, numerical heat transfer, turbulence drag reduction

Erdogan Madenci
Fabrication and characterization of layered material systems and development of analytical/numerical solution methods to predict their behavior specific to aircraft and electronic components in the presence of defects under various loading conditions

John McGrath
Responses of biomaterials to thermal treatments and the development and application of instrumentation, including optical diagnostics and image analysis

Samy Missoum
Structural and Multidisciplinary optmimization, reliability-based and robust optimal design, design of experiments and metamodeling techniques, evolutionary optimization algorithms

Parviz E. Nikravesh
Computational methods in multi-body kinematics and dynamics, computer-aided design, optimization/optimal design, control systems, biomechanics, vehicle dynamics

Henry C. Perkins, Jr.
Thermodynamics, energy, air pollution

Kumar Ramohalli
Space technologies, propulsion/power, combustion, acoustics, solid propellant rockets, in-situ resource utilization (ISRU)

Lawrence B. Scott, Jr.
Rarefied Gas dynamics; wind energy conversion systems; computer-aided aircraft design and optimization; solar energy, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation; wind tunnel testing and computer-aided data acquisition; burner design optimization for flash smelting of copper ore; non-invasive flow meters for EPA purge canister tests

Sergey V. Shkarayev
Fracture mechanics, structural analysis and health monitoring, aircraft design, software development

Bruce R. Simon
Finite element analysis, solid and structural mechanics, and engineering mechanics with applications to biomechanics including nonlinear, coupled mechano-electro-chemical transport in soft tissues and tissue engineered biological structures/implants

Anatoli Tumin
Hydrodynamic stability, laminar-turbulent transition, flow control, aerodynamic heating

Jonathan van de Geest
Biaxial testing of soft tissues, finite element analysis of biological materials, 3D reconstruction from medical imaging data, aneurysm mechanics

Thomas L. Vincent
Qualitative behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems with applications to automatic control design; optimal control and game theory with applications in control design, management programs for dynamical systems, and evolution and adaptation of biological systems

John G. Williams
Nuclear reactor dosimetry, nuclear data for reactor dosimetry; radiation damage in semiconductors, radiation effects and measurement, reactor instrumentation and control, applications of research reactors, reactor operations and safety, signal processing, modeling of neural systems

Pak Kin Wong
Single molecule detection and manipulation, molecular and cellular biomechanics, BioMEMS, micro- and nanofluidics, computational systems biology, point-of-care diagnostic

Lesley Wright
Experimental biomaterials, tissue mechanics, computational biomaterials

Xiaoyi Wu
Nuclear reactor dosimetry, nuclear data for reactor dosimetry; radiation damage in semiconductors, radiation effects and measurement, reactor instrumentation and control, applications of research reactors, reactor operations and safety, signal processing, modeling of neural systems

Israel J. Wygnanski
Aerodynamics (related to fixed and rotary craft); control of separation, high lift devices, and drag reduction; aeroacoustics (jet noise, cavity noise, screech); turbulent shear flows, control of turbulent mixing; laminar-turbulent transition; hydrodynamic stability

Ming De Zhou
Experimental fluid mechanics; wind tunnel testing techniques for aircraft; turbulent shear flows; laminar-turbulent transition; active flow control for drag reduction, lift augmentation, and noise reduction; digital data acquisition and signal processing

Yitshak Zohar
Science and technology of MicroElectroMechanicalSystems (MEMS), Microscale fluid mechanics and heat transfer, Bio-MEMS: microscale manipulation of DNA, proteins and cells, microsensors and microactuators, integrated microfabrication technologies
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Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Robert G. Arnold
Applied microbiology (bioremediation and microbially catalyzed processes of environmental interests); biotic catalysis of hazardous waste transformations; treatment of hazardous organic pollutants; abiotic catalysis including the electrolytic and photo- initiated decomposition of trichloroethylene

James C. Baygents
Transport and interfacial phenomena in biophysical systems; electrohydrodynamics of drops and bubbles; nonlinear electrokinetic effects; nucleic acid and protein separations

Paul Blowers
Facilitating predictions of activation barriers for reactions in various environments; using ab initio quantum mechanical calculations to find correlating parameters for activation barriers; the effects of surfaces on reactions; predict activation barriers for new reactions on complex surfaces

Wendell Ela
Particle-particle interactions in natural systems; remediation of contaminated surface water systems; processes occurring at natural solid-water interfaces; development of a quiescent water column and optical imaging systems; processes to remediate metal and metalloid contamination in acid mine drainage

James Farrell
Transport and fate of organic contaminants in groundwater, the mechanisms controlling adsorption of hydrophobic organic compounds in water-saturated microporous materials, and electrochemical water treatment of chlorinated organic compounds and redox active metals

James Field
Soil science, anaerobic biodegradation of priority pollutants, lignin degrading system of white rot fungi, biosynthesis of organohalogens by fungi

Roberto Z. Guzman
Separation technology and bioremediation; emphasis in protein and metal ion separations, cometabolic bioventing for degradation of chlorinated organic contaminants; synthesis of polymers surfactants and surfaces for metal-affinity separation techniques and development of selective adsorptive surfaces

Anthony J. Muscat
Processing science of electronic materials including gas phase surface preparation and supercritical fluid etching, cleaning, and film repair, plasma etching of III-V materials

Kimberly L. Ogden
Bioremediation and biotechnology; transport and fermentation processes; effects of heavy metals on biodegradation and developing treatment strategies to remediate wastes (solid and liquid) containing mixtures of organics and heavy metals; soils contaminated with explosives and barium; feasibility of using microorganisms to remove organics and metals from water streams that will be recycled within a semiconductor plant; formation and destruction of biofilms in ultra-pure water systems

Thomas W. Peterson
Aerosol processes relevant to environmental problems; chemistry and physics of particle behavior in plasma etch systems and process modification which influence aerosol formation in combustion processes; reducing emissions of volatile organic compounds from processes used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices

Ara Philipossian
Applied research in environmentally benign semiconductor manufacturing, chemical mechanical planarization fundamentals, abrasive nano-particle design and characterization, process kinetics and fluid dynamics

A. Eduardo Saez
Transport phenomena in multiphase and colloidal systems; flow of polymer solutions and polymer/surfactants solutions through porous media and other complex flows, strudy of facilitated transport by colloids in porous media, encapsulation of solid waste in polyceram matrices

Glenn Schrader
Impact of complex catalytic processes on environmental sustainability, fundamental and applied materials science with particular interest in catalysis

Farhang Shadman
Application of chemical reaction engineering in semiconductor manufacturing; advanced materials processing and environmental contamination control

Reyes Sierra
Microbial mobilization and biotransformation of arsenic in municipal landfills, agricultural chemicals as a major non-point source of arsenic, application of sulfate-reducing bacteria for the biomineralization of heavy metals, biological removal of Cu in wastewaters from semiconductor manufacturing
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Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics
Muniram Budhu
Model based simulation of civil engineering systems, constitutive laws for engineering materials, application of numerical to engineering problems, seismic behavior of soils and foundations systems, bioremediation, smart clay as barriers for landfills, modern communication technologies, erosion from hydropower dams

Yi-Chang Chiu
Development of cluster-computing based Spacially Scalable Dynamic Traffic Assignment (SSDTA) modeling tool; regional corridor management and regional evacuation planning and real-time evacuation opperations support; Anisotropic Mesoscopic Simulation (AMS) traffic flow model

Chandra S. Desai
Constitutive modeling and testing for engineering materials, interfaces and joints; computer methods for analysis, design, reliability and manufacturing for problems in civil engineering, electronic packaging, engineering mechanics and mechanical engineering

Jennifer Duan
Hydraulics and water resources engineering with a focus on hydrodynamics, sediment trnasport , and fluvial geomorphology

Mohammad R. Ehsani
Behavior of reinforced and pre-stressed concrete structures; rehabilitation and strengthening techniques for existing structures; application of fiber composite materials in civil engineering structures; nondestructive evaluation of structures

Robert Fleischman
Seismic-resistant design of building structures, modular connections for steel moment-resisting frames, diaphragm flexibility effects on precast concrete structures, post-tensioned steel frames, connectors for automated construction, nonlinear finite element modeling, nonlinear dynamic structural analysis, full-scale experimentation

George N. Frantziskonis
Multiscale material modeling from atomic to macro and applications to fracture and fatigue resistance; stochastic material behavior and application to reliability assessment; corrosion pitting, characterization and application to fracture initiation; simulation of material behavior and nondestructive evaluation

Achintya Haldar
Application of probabilistic methods in engineering, including earthquake engineering, seismic risk analysis, wind and tornado engineering, structural dynamics, fatigue/fracture reliability/ maintainability of infrastructure, soil-structure interaction, system identification, nonlinear random vibration, stochastic finite element, stochastic optimization, probabilistic evaluation of construction deficiencies, fuzzy sets and systems analysis, all aspects of damage, nondestructive inspections and their use in updating the reliability of existing structures

Mark Hickman
Public transportation operations and management, application of information technologies in transportation, transportation systems analysis and quantitative modeling

Tribikram Kundu
Ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation; material characterization; acoustic microscopy; elastic wave propagation in solids; computational/fracture mechanics

Kevin Lansey
Application of system analysis and probabilistic methods to water resources, hydrologic and environmental engineering problems; design, calibration and operation of water distribution systems, reservoir operations, and soil-aquifer treatment systems, use of remote sensing data in hydrologic forecasts

Hamid Saadatmanesh
Advanced materials such as fiber composites for strengthening of existing structures; rehabilitation of infrastructure systems; space materials; behavior of steel and concrete structures

Juan Valdés
Stochastic and deterministic hydrology flood forecasting analysis; synthesis and sampling of hydrologic processes; mathematical models of natural resources systems; modeling of space-time precipitation; environmental risk assessment; stochastic modeling of environmental processes
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Electrical & Computing Engineering
Ali Akoglu
Embedded high performance computing, specializing in application specific reconfigurable architecture design space, hardware software co-design, scientific computing and performance modeling

Jennifer K. Barton
Optical imaging (optical coherence tomography), laser-tissue interaction, bioinstrumentation

John R. Brews
Semiconductor device physics, MOSFET design, electromagnetics of interconnections

Shuguang (Robert) Cui
Cross-layer design optimization for energy-constrained networks, MIMO, Cooperative MIMO, adaptive modulation, multiuser communications, design synergy between hardware and system software, constraint-based routing and network topology optimization, resource allocation in heterogeneous networks

Ivan Djordjevic
Optical communication systems and networks; error control coding; constrained coding and modulation formats; OFDM; CDMA systems and optical encryption; optical packet switching; free-space optics; information theory; statistical communications theory; digital communications; satellite communications

Donald G. Dudley
Electromagnetic theory, applied mathematics, inverse theory, down-borehole oil exploration studies

Steven L. Dvorak
Electromagnetic transients, wave propagation, analytical and computational electromagnetics, optics, applied mathematics, microwave measurements

Glen C. Gerhard
Medical instrumentation and systems, technology and innovation in education

Nathan Goodman
Radar and array signal processing, adaptive signal processing

Salim Hariri
High performance distributed systems, high speed communication protocols and networks, performance modeling and analysis of parallel and distributed computing systems, fault tolerant distributed computing

Charles M. Higgins
Neuromorphic engineering, focusing on analog VLSI for vision and robotic systems; real-time VLSI systems for processing visual motion, disparity, and egomotion; integrated sensors and control systems for highly capable, inexpensive autonomonous robtics

Raymond K. Kostuk
Optical interconnects, diffractive optical elements, fiber optics, optical data storage

Marwan M. Krunz
Power control, scheduling and protocol design for wireless networks, www traffic modeling, packet video, constraint-based routing and topology aggregation

Ahmed Louri
Computer architecture, computer networks, parallel processing, parallel algorithms, optical computing, optical interconnects

Roman Lysecky
Embedded system design, with emphasis on dynamic adaptability, dynamic optimizations, low power FPGAs, HW/SW partioning, efficient architectures, low-power design methods

Susan Lysecky
Utilizing CAD techniques and methodologies within the sensor network domain to facilitate and optimize the constructiona and customization of various sensor network applications. Development of usable interfaces and tools to aid non-engineers, such as biologists, agriculturists, military personnel, homeowners, etc., who are often responsible for the development of sensor network applications. Interests also include self-configuring systems, efficient architectures, ubiquitous computing, and human-computer interaction.

Dongsheng Ma
Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit (IC) design, on-chip power management for VLSI systems, microsystem designs for biomedical applications and nano devices and hopf bifurcations and chaos circuits

Michael W. Marcellin
Data compression, digital communication and storage systems, digital signal processing

Michael M. Marefat
Machine intelligence, software engineering, robotics, computer vision, computer graphics, intelligent control, CAD/CAM

Ralph Martinez
Computer systems application and design, distributed computing environments, computer networks, medical imaging and communications, telemedicine systems

Kathleen I. Melde
Microwave engineering, modeling and performance visualization of broadband integrated antennas for radio communications applications

Mark A. Neifeld
Optical information processing, pattern recognition, parallel coding and signal processing, pattern recognition, neural networks, volume optical storage, multiple-quantum-well photonics

John F. O'Hanlon
Vacuum physics, microcontamination, semiconductor processing, physical electronics

Olgierd A. Palusinski
Computer-aided design and integrated circuits, electronic packaging, circuit simulation

Harold G. Parks
Integrated circuit processing, defect studies, yield enhancement and modeling, semiconductor devices

Kelly Potter
MDevelopment of elements for integrated optical systems using both optically active and passive novel photowritable materials. Examination of single and multi-photon processes leading to both linear and non-linear response in optical materials as a result of exposure to either ionizing or non-ionizing radiation. Research into the impact of defect physics on material optical behavior, waveguide device design and optical device performance is particularly emphasized

Srinivasan Ramasubramanian
Optical networks, communication network and protocols, fault tolerance, system modeling and performance analysis

John A. Reagan
Electromagnetic remote sensing, atmospheric radiation and optics, optoelectronic instrumentation

Jeffrey J. Rodriguez
Symbolic visualization, engineering design decision supports CAD framework and design management, collaborative, distributed design, engineering of computer based systems

Janet Wang Roveda
Computer-aided design for high performance nanometer integrated circuits, package design, digital and mixed-signal systems, nanometer full chip circuit simulation and modeling

Jerzy W. Rozenblit
Modeling, simulation, artificial intelligence, knowledge-based design, intelligent systems, engineering of computer-based systems, codesign

William E. Ryan
Error control coding, turbo codes, trellis codes, algebraic codes, linear and nonlinear equalization, applications of communication theory and coding to data transmission and storage

Larry C. Schooley
Communications systems, digital communication networks, telemetry, telescience

Robert A. Schowengerdt
Remote sensing systems and image processing, multispectral sensor and scene modeling, digital mapping techniques

Robin N. Strickland
Digital image processing, computer vision, signal processing

Malur K. Sundareshan
Control systems, communication networks, statistical signal processing, neural network theory, applications to control system design

Miklos N. Szilagyi
Particle beams and optics, computer-aided synthesis of electron and ion optical systems, physical electronics, artificial intelligence, neural networks, nonlinear stochastic dynamic system simulation

Hal S. Tharp
Multivariable, multirate, robust, adaptive, and neural network control theory

Bane Vasic
Coding theory, information theory, symbolic dynamics, communications theory, digital communications and recording

Sarma Vrudhula
Design automation and testing of digital systems

Urs Utzinger
Tissue spectroscopy, imaging and bio instrumemtation

Hao Xin
Microwave and millimeter wave technology, active microwave devices and circuits, electronically scanned antennas, novel materials for microwave applications

Bernard P. Zeigler
Modeling and simulation environments, high-performance discrete event simulation, distributed modeling and simulation

Richard W. Ziolkowski
Computational electromagnetics; transient linear and nonlinear electromagnetics, optics, and acoustic phenomena
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Hydrology and Water Resources
Victor R. Baker
Paleohydrology, geomorphology, paleoflood hydrology, history and philosophy of the Earth and environmental sciences

Michael D. Bradley
Water resources administration with emphasis on water policy, resources management, and water rights; theoretical perspective with which one can integrate water and infrastructural planning into comprehensive city and regional planning

Paul D. Brooks
Watershed-scale elemental cycling, terrestrial-aquatic interactions, carbon and nutrient biogeochemistry, ecosystems response to disturbance, biogeochemistry of snow-covered systems

Donald R. Davis
Decision-making under hydrologic and other uncertainties; Bayesian decision theory in a general systems setting; stochastic hydrology, hydrologic systems and water resources administration

Paul "Ty" Ferré
Vadose zone hydrology, groundwater-surface water interaction, field and laboratory monitoring of infiltration and recharge, solute transport through variably saturated media, application of geophysics to subsurface hydrology, spatial mapping of soil water content

Hoshin Gupta
Surface hydrology, rainfall-runoff models, research for National Weather Service

Thomas Maddock, III
Evapotranspiration and groundwater/surface water interactions, shallow aquifer theory, integrating economic and hydrologic models, regional planning of groundwater/surface water development

Jennifer McIntosh
Hydrogeochemistry of surface waters/groundwaters/saline fluids, isotope hydrology, fluid and solute transport in basinal-scale aquifers, paleohydrology, microbial degradation of organic matter and generation of natural gas, geochemical and hydrologic modeling.

Shlomo P. Neuman
Subsurface hydrology, transport phenomena of heat and contaminants, numerical modeling


W. James Shuttleworth
Hydrometeorology, hydroclimatology, surface-atmosphere interaction

Peter Troch
Hillslope and catchment hydrology, remote sensing and data assimilation, hydrological predictions in ungauged basins.

T.C. Jim Yeh
Numerical and stochastic analysis of flow and solute transport phenomena in saturated and unsaturated heterogeneous porous media

Marek Zreda
Isotope hydrology, hydrogeology, global change, soil erosion, and solute transport
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Materials Science & Engineering
Rene Corrales
Developing theoretical methods and applying computational materials chemistry tools to study chemical reactivity, electronic excitation, and defect formation in materials and interfaces

William G. Davenport
Flash furnace optimization, including sulfuric acid manufacture; plasma reactions; recovery of extraterrrestrial resources

Pierre A. Deymier
Atomistic computer simulation techniques applied to materials science problems; interfacial phenomena in metals, grain boundary segregation; electronic structure of materials; high temperature superconductors; composite materials

Robert Erdmann
Multiscale computational materials science, with an emphasis on transport modeling in materials processes; computational investigations of random heterogeneous materials; theory of porous media; microscale computational fluid dynamics; advanced scientific visualization; object-oriented scientific computing.

J. Brent Hiskey
Copper electrorefining and electrowinning; extractive metallurgy of gold and silver; electrochemistry of conducting and semiconducting materials; In-situ leaching of minerals and metals

Douglas Loy
Design, synthesis, and characterization of new materials, particularly those with potential energy related application. These efforts involve the development of new monomers, polymerization chemistries, functionalization strategies, and methods for characterizing nanoscale structures in intractable networks

Pierre Lucas
Infrared Glass Ceramics with new functionalities, photoinduced effects in chalcogenide glass, live-cell based bio-optic sensors

David C. Lynch
Plasma chemistry, plasma-solid reactions; photo-enhanced reactions; processing of glass ceramics; thermochemistry of minor elements in copper smelting; catalysis - carbon monoxide disproportionation

David R. Poirier
Macrosegregation and transport phenomena in solidifying alloys; computer modeling; permeability in solidifying alloys; liquid/solid equilibria in titanium alloys and steel; structure development in equiaxial solidification

B. G. Potter
Photosensitive phenomena in inorganic, organic, and molecular hybrid material, nanoassembly, optically based bio-sensing, rare-earth-doped matrices, quantum confinement effects in semiconductors, computational materials science, optical phenomena in complex ferroelectric oxides.

Srini Raghavan
Microcontamination; interfacial phenomena in wet processing of silicon; surface coatings; corrosion; surface modification of materials

Supapan Seraphin
Electron microscopy and electron holography of magnetic clusters in carbon cages; TEM and SEM characterization of aluminum alloys, glass and thin films; TEM and SEM studies of oxygen implanted silicon-on-insulator materials and integrated circuits

Joseph Simmons
Quantum-size effects in the optical properties of semiconductor clusters; optical properties and carrier dynamics in wide-gap semiconductors; photosensitivity in glass films; non-linear optical behavior of materials and glasses; molecular dynamics simulations; non-linear viscous flow and rheological behavior of molten glasses; quantum coherence and quantum computing in semiconductor quantum dots and wells

Donald R. Uhlmann
Sol-gel synthesis of ceramics; non-linear optical materials; engineered surfaces; ferroelectric materials; kinetic processes in materials

Pamela Vandiver
Application of Materials Research to archaelology, conservation and long-term preservation issues, pathways tp Pottery in the Upper Paleolithic and Early Neolithic Periods in Southwest Asia and East Asia, the relationship of complex societies to elite craft technologies, espcially the beginnings of glass and glaze technologies in Southwest Asia

Brian Zelinski
Wetting characteristics of glass-ceramic and glass-metal interfaces.
effects of compositional inhomogeneties on glass crystalization behavior, wet chemical approaches for the generation of electronic and opto-electronic materials, sol-gel synthesis of optical waveguides and gratings
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Mining and Geological Engineering
Sean Dessureault
Mine management, mine automation, operator assist, information systems, information technology, tactical mine management, operations management, operations research, applied anthropology, industrial relations, organizational design, mine costing, process improvement programs and sustainability

John M. Kemeny
Rock mechanics; fracture mechanics; fault and earthquake mechanics; borehole breakout; microcrack imaging; damage modeling; measurement of fragmentation and fracture properties using digital image processing, which includes software to measure fragment size distributions in mining and mineral processing, characterizing rock masses using digital image processing, and 3-D stereo imaging

Pinnaduwa Kulatilake
Rock mass fracture characterization and network numerical modeling in geoengineering; rock slope stability

Mary M. Poulton
Neural networks, pattern recognition, geophysics, environmental investigations, GIS, remote sensing, mineral and petroleum exploration

Ben K. Sternberg
Development of new measurement methods; electrical and electromagnetics geophysics; interpretation of geophysical data for environmental engineering, mining, oil and gas applications
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Systems & Industrial Engineering
Terry Bahill
Modeling physiological systems: experiments and mdoeling analysis of the human arm, head and eye movement systems, with applications to clinical medicine and the science of baseball. Knowledge Engineering: computer techniques for verifying and validating decision support systems. Systems Engineering: system design, quality function deployment (QFD), concurrent engineering, design for manufacturability, sensitivity analyses discovering requirements, etc.

Guzin Bayrasan
Theory and algorithms for stochastic optimization using Monte Carlo sampling-based methods, simulation-based optimization, computational enhancements to stochastic programming algorithms, parallel computing

Duane L. Dietrich
Application of Bayesian decision theory in statistical quality control, application of Bayesian decision theory in reliability testing; reliability growth modeling; reliability systems analysis; large scale availability systems analysis

Lucien Duckstein
Systems modeling; fuzzy set and stochastic models and modern system theory; applications to rainfall, runoff, water quality problems, short-term and long-term forecasting of floods, drought, water demand; regional multiobjective analysis; design of water and natural resource systems; decision-making under uncertainty; multi-criterion decision problems; multi-attribute utility

William R. Ferrell
Modeling and measuring human performance in information processing tasks such as probability assessment, decision-making, diagnosis, and inspection; design of methods and systems to augment human performance as in expert systems and responsive computer interfaces

Jeffrey B. Goldberg
Applied optimization modeling and solution; designing standard modules for use in many end products, determining optimal or near-optimal base locations for emergency vehicles, and determining cost effective low variance process designs

Larry Head
System design and architecture, algorithms for estimation, control, and optimization; embedded systems with applications to real-time traffic signal control and trnasportation management systems

Simge Kucukyavuz
Integer programming and computational optimization; applications in logistics, supply chain management and communications network design

Wei H. Lin
Transportation network optimization, intelligent transportation systems, traffic flow theory, logistics and supply chain management, computer simulation modeling

Leo Lopes
Modeling, hedging, computational optimization

Pitu B. Mirchandani
Models and algorithms for optimization, control of stochastic systems and logistics, routing, location and scheduling; applications in transportation and traffic, integrated manufacturing and telecommunications

Marcel F. Neuts
Numerical methods in probability and stochastic models, stochastic processes, in particular the theory of Markov renewal processes, queuing systems and biomedical applications, modeling of communication and data processing systems

John R. Ramberg
Engineering statistics, experiment design, quality engineering, robust design, total quality and digital computer simulation, including methodologies for quality planning, improvement and control; application to semiconductor manufacture and computer simulation modeling

Suvrajeet Sen
Mathematical programming theory, large scale and stochastic programming, nonlinear and disjunctive programming; production planning, telecommunications, power systems and traffic networks

Young Jun Son
Hybrid, distributed and multilayered simulation for analysis and control of automated manufacturing systems and integrated supply chain, shop floor control

Ferenc Szidarovszky
Numerical methods, game theory, systems theory, dynamical economic systems, multiobjective programming, modeling industrial processes and natural resources

Feiyue Wang
Mathematical theory of intelligent machines; non-monotonic deduction and knowledge-base; fuzzy logic, neural nets, and distributed learning; coordination and task plan translation; complexity and reliability analysis; robotics and automation, dynamics, control, and computer vision; space robotics and structures; manufacturing systems, specification, design, control synthesis, and evaluation of CIM systems; discrete event dynamic systems with applications in CIMs

Wayne Wymore
Mathematical system theory and its applications to system design methodology; application of system design methodology to the design of large-scale, complex, man/machine/software systems in several areas; social service systems, communication systems, transportation systems, weapons systems, industrial systems, agricultural production systems and information systems
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