Johanna Amaya
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management
Office: 425 Business Building
Phone: 814-863-2484
Email: amayaj@psu.edu
Department Website
Research Interests: Disaster response logistics and sustainable urban freight transportation.
Aydin Alptekinoglu
Professor of Supply Chain Management
Office: 483 Business Building
Phone: 814-867-4795
Email: aydin@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Mass customization, retail assortment planning, multiproduct competition, post-purchase variety, advance selling, pricing service capacity, product-line pricing, inventory pooling, and inventory competition.
Antonios Armaou
Affiliate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 230 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building
Phone: 814-865-5316
Email: armaou@engr.psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Process dynamics and control, computational modeling and applied mathematics, and process design and analysis.
Necdet Serhat Aybat
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
Office: 360 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-867-1284
Email: nsa10@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: First order methods for large-scale convex optimization, compressive sensing, matrix rank minimization, robust and stable PCA, and distributed algorithms.
Saurabh Bansal
Professor of Supply Chain & Information Systems
Office: 405 Business Building
Phone: 814-863-3797
Email: sub32@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Risk estimation and optimization.
Le Bao
Professor of Statistics
Office: 514C Wartick Lab
Phone: 814-865-9443
Email: lub14@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Motivated by solving important real-world problems through developing and applying statistical methodologies. The research projects mainly cover the areas of public health and social science, such as HIV epidemics, COVID-19 epidemic, demographic research, marginalized populations, and air pollution.
Russell Barton
Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems and Professor of Industrial Engineering
Office: 413 Business Building
Phone: 814-863-7289
Email: rbarton@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Web application security, graphical methods for experiment design, design of experiments and metamodeling methods, and statistical models of product and process behavior.
Seth Blumsack
Professor of Energy Policy and Economics
Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs, Energy and Mineral Engineering
Office: 156 Hosler Building
Phone: 814-863-7597
Email: blumsack@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Energy and electric power systems, network and graph theory, regulatory economics and policy, antitrust and competition policy, market power in electricity market, transportation systems and infrastructure, environmental risk and decision-making, integrated design for zero or low net-energy buildings and communities, and unconventional natural gas.
Elizabeth W. Boyer
Professor of Ecosystem Science & Management
Office: 304 Forest Resources Building
Phone: 814-865-8830
Email: ewb100@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Hydrology, water quality, earth & environmental sciences, biogeochemistry, atmospheric deposition, forests, freshwater, coastal waters, food-energy-water nexus, and history of science.
Peter J. Butler
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Office: 535 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building
Phone: 814-865-8086
Email: pjb28@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Cell biophysics, Cellular Mechanotransduction, Vascular Physiology, Quantitative Microscopy
Eli Christopher Byrne
Teaching Professor of Mathematics
Office: 006 McAllister Building
Phone: 814-863-4343
Email: byrne@math.psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Game Theory, optimization, and mathematical modeling.
Prakash Chakraborty
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
Office: 206 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-863-2360
Email: pzc217@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Applied probability, queuing systems, stochastic networks, stochastic control, mean field games, rough path theory, and applications in machine learning.
Kalyan Chatterjee
Distinguished Professor of Management Science and Economics
Office: 504 Kern Building
Phone: 814-865-6050
Email: kchatterjee@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Game theory, microeconomic theory, and industrial organization.
Qiushi Chen
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
Office: 302 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-863-4562
Email: qxc35@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Operations research, production, supply chain, and service systems engineering.
Francesca Chiaromonte
Professor of Statistics and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Statistics for the Life Sciences
Office: 518 Wartik Lab
Phone: 814-865-7075
Email: chiaro@stat.psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Statistics, bioinformatics, and genomics.
Enrique Del Castillo
Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering and Professor of Statistics
Office: 357 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-863-6408
Email: exd13@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Process optimization and experimental design, time series analysis and control, Bayesian statistics, large-scale spatial and functional data modeling, statistical learning theory, and manifold learning.
Suvrat S. Dhanorkar
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management
Office: 466 Business Building
Phone: 814-863-3077
Email: ssd14@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Sustainable supply chains and online reuse marketplaces.
Daniel Finke
Research Associate, Applied Research Laboratory
Office: 410D Applied Science Building
Phone: 814-865-5178
Email: daf903@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Simulation-based decision support, planning and scheduling, heuristic algorithm development and implementation, agent-based simulation and modeling, and process improvement.
Karen Fisher-Vanden
Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
Office: 110 Ferguson Building
Phone: 814-867-2752
Email: kaf26@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Computable general equilibrium modeling, climate change impacts and adaptation, and integrated assessment.
Duncan K. Fong
Professor of Marketing, Frank and Mary Jean Smeal Research Fellow
Office: 456 Business Building
Phone: 814-863-3541
Email: i2v@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Marketing research, marketing analytics, Bayesian analysis, and operations management.
Terry L. Friesz
Harold and Inge Marcus Chaired Professor of Industrial Engineering
Office: 305 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-863-2445
Email: tlf13@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Transportation: congestion pricing, freight transportation, dynamic traffic assignments (DTA), and network design. Spatial economics: spatial price equilibrium and competitive facility location. Network science: network emergence, social network theory, and price of anarchy. Revenue management: service pricing, revenue optimization, and demand learning.
Vikash V. Gayah
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office: 231L Sacket Building
Phone: 814-865-4014
Email: gayah@engr.psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Urban traffic network dynamics, traffic flow theory, traffic operations and control, public transportation systems, and urban mobility.
Jeremy M. Gernand
Associate Professor of Industrial Health and Safety
Office: 121 Hosler Building
Phone: 814-865-5861
Email: jmgernand@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Pulmonary toxicity and occupational risks of nanomaterials, use of surrogate risk data to inform design, machine learning for design and risk analysis, safety and reliability of complex engineered systems, and effects of engineering design on public health.
Steven Greybush
Associate Professor of Meteorology
Office: 618 Walker Building
Phone: 814-867-4926
Email: sjg213@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Data assimilation, numerical weather prediction, weather and climate of Mars, atmospheric modeling, ensemble forecasting, predictability, statistical and artificial intelligence applications.
Christopher Griffin
Research Professor, Applied Research Laboratory
Office: 165 Applied Research Lab Building
Phone: 814-863-3023
Email: cxg286@psu.edu
Personal Website or Department Website
Research Interests: Game theory, dynamic optimization, and systems theory.
Paul Griffin
Professor of Industrial Engineering
Office: 310 Leonard Building
Phone: 814-865-7601
Email: pmg14@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Health systems engineering and care delivery, health analytics, cost effectiveness modeling in public health, and health supply chain coordination.
Dan Guide
Smeal Chaired Professor of Operations & Supply Chain Management
Office: 480 Business Building
Phone: 814-865-6103
Fax: 814-863-7067
E-mail: drg16@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Development and control of closed-loop supply chains, time-based models for commercial product returns, remanufacturing, and producer responsibility legislation.
S. Ilgin Guler
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
Office: 403 Sackett Building
Phone: 814-867-6210
E-mail: iguler@engr.psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Transportation and urban networks.
Antonia Hadjimichael
Assistant Professor of Geosciences
Office: 212 Deike Building
E-mail: azh5924@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Water resources planning, decision making under uncertainty, and the management of coupled human-natural systems.
Catherine Harmonosky
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
Office: 304 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-865-2107
Email: c1h@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Manufacturing and service systems analysis, production planning and control, healthcare delivery systems analysis, scheduling, and computer simulation applications.
Paul Heinemann
Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Office: 250 Agricultural Engineering Building
Phone: 814-865-7792
Fax: 814-863-1031
Email: hzh@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Optimization of agricultural production and processing systems, and application of artificial intelligence to agricultural processing and production.
Vasant Honavar
Professor and Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology
Office: E335 Westgate Building
Phone: 814-865-3141
Email: vhonavar@ist.psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence (especially machine learning, causal inference, knowledge representation), computer science, data sciences, cognitive and brain sciences, and applied informatics (especially bioinformatics, health informatics).
David Hunter
Professor of Statistics
Office: 326A Thomas Building
Phone: 814-865-1348
Email: dhunter@stat.psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Computational statistics, network models, and mixture models.
Edward Jaenicke
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Office: 208-B Armsby
Phone: 814-865-5282
Email: tjaenicke@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Economic modeling of food purchase behavior, link between food behavior and health, retail food product offerings and prices, and organic food and agriculture.
Sanjay Joshi
Professor of Industrial Engineering
Office: 303 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-865-2108
Email: sbj4@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Computer-aided process planning, CAD/CAM, control of manufacturing systems, and additive manufacturing.
George Kesidis
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: 121 Electrical Engineering East
Phone: 814-865-9190
Email: gik2@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interest: Communications and networking.
Sadan Kulturel-Konak
Professor of Management Information Systems
Office: 329 Gaige, Penn State Berks
Phone: 610-396-6137
Email: sxk70@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interest: Modeling, analysis, and optimization of complex systems using metaheuristic approaches, such as Tabu search and genetic algorithms, combined with techniques from probability and operations research. Primary application areas include facility layout/re-layout, redundancy allocation, and scheduling.
Akhil Kumar
Professor of Supply Chain & Information Systems
Office: 420 Business Building
Phone: 814-863-0034
Email: axk41@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Blockchain technology, business analytics, deep learning, health IT and healthcare forums, business process management and workflow systems, and process mining.
Soundar Kumara
Allen E. Pearce and Allen M. Pearce Professor of Industrial Engineering
Office: 222 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-863-2359
Email: u1o@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Manufacturing, operations research, production, supply chain, and service systems engineering.
Constantino Lagoa
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: 205 K Electrical Engineering West
Phone: 814-865-0244
E-mail: cml18@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Control and decision systems, data science, and artificial intelligence.
Brian Lee
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
Office: 447B Business Building
E-mail: brian.lee@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, gig economy, technology and innovation, impact of digitization, and artificial intelligence.
Runze Li
Eberly Family Chair Professor of Statistics and Associate Department Head
Office: 413 Thomas Building
Phone: 814-865-1555
E-mail: ril4@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Variable selection and feature screening for high dimensional data, nonparametric modeling, semiparametric modeling and their application to social behavior science research, longitudinal data analysis, and survival data analysis and their application to biomedical data analysis.
Jia Li
Professor of Statistics and (by courtesy) Computer Science
Office: 417A Thomas Building
Phone: 814-863-3074
E-mail: jol2@psu.edu
Department Website or Personal Website
Research Interests: Machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), image analysis, and probabilistic graph models.
Chiara Lo Prete
Associate Professor of Energy Economics
Office: 213 Hosler Building
Phone: 814-865-0982
E-mail: chiaraloprete@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Mathematical models and application of empirical methods to study cross-product manipulation, emission leakage, market structures to integrate variable energy resources, and resilience of interdependent natural gas and electric power systems.
Yanyuan Ma
Professor of Statistics
Office: 415 Thomas Building
Phone: 814-865-1348
Email: yzm63@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Measurement error models, dimension reduction, mixed sample problems, latent variables models, selection bias and skew-elliptical distributions, and semiparametrics.
Kamesh Madduri
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Office: W312 Westgate Building
Phone: 814-865-0883
Email: kxm85@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Combinatorial scientific computing, scalable scientific data analysis and management, and parallel graph algorithms with applications to computational biology and social network analysis.
Costas Maranas
Donald B. Broughton Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 126 Land and Water Research Building
Phone: 814-863-9958
Email: cdm8@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Reconstruction analysis and redesign of metabolic networks, computational protein enzyme and antibody design, synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, and optimization theory and algorithms.
Marc E. McDill
Associate Professor of Forest Management
Office: 310 Forest Resource Building
Phone: 814-865-1602
Email: mmcdill@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Forest management planning, operations research, timber supply, geographic information systems, property taxes, forest values and valuation, forest management under uncertainty, growth and yield modeling, and regional development.
John I. Messner
Charles and Elinor Matts Professor of Architectural Engineering
Office: 208 Engineering Unit A
Phone: 814-865-4578
Fax: 814-863-4789
Email: jmessner@engr.psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Advanced visualization technologies to improve project design and construction education, construction globalization, and strategic management in construction procurement methods
Renee Obringer
Assistant Professor of Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering
Office: 110 Hosler Building
Phone: 814-865-6511
Email: obringer@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Leveraging data science methods to better understand the impact of weather and climate on critical infrastructure systems, and studying how climate change impacts interdependent infrastructure systems (e.g., water-energy nexus).
Kostas Papakonstantinou
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
Office: 213C Sackett Building
Phone: 814-863-4010
Email: kup31@psu.edu
Department Website and Personal Website
Research Interests: Probabilistic analysis, computational structural mechanics, stochastic mechanics, decision making under uncertainty, stochastic control, risk assessment and management, optimization and inverse methods, and structural health monitoring.
Vittaldas Prabhu
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Charles and Enid Schneider Faculty Chair in Service Enterprise Engineering
Office: 348 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-863-3212
Email: vxp7@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Manufacturing, production, supply chain, and service systems engineering.
Arvind Rangaswamy
Charles Professor of Industrial Engineering
Office: 481 Business Building
Phone: 814-865-1907
Fax: 814-865-3015
Email: arvindr@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: E-Marketing/e-Business, marketing engineering, marketing decision models, and online marketing.
Charles David Ray
Associate Professor of Ecosystem Science and Management
Office: 205 Forest Resources Building
Phone: 814-865-0679
Email: cdr14@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Analysis of natural resources systems, wood identification and taxonomy, forest industry economics, wood products operations management, process control, simulation, and optimization, statistical quality control, relationships of wood, moisture, product properties, and environmental emissions, artificial intelligence, lean manufacturing, and quality management.
William J. Rothwell
Professor of Workforce Education and Development
Office: 310B Keller Building
Phone: 814-863-2581
Email: wjr9@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interest: Career development, human resources management, organization development, succession planning, workforce and vocational education, and workplace training.
Rui Shi
Assistant Professor of Department of Chemical Engineering
Office: 229 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Phone: 814-863-6590
Email: rms6987@psu.edu
Department Website or Personal Website
Research Interests: Life cycle assessment, sustainable design, biofuels & bioproducts, food-energy-water-waste nexus, advanced computational modeling, and decision-making under uncertainty.
Bharath K Sriperumbudur
Associate Professor of Statistics
314 Thomas Building
Phone: 814-867-5948
Email: bks18@psu.edu
Department Website or Personal Website
Research Interests: Non-parametric statistics, empirical process theory, concentration of measure, regularization and inverse problems, reproducing kernel spaces in probability and statistics, statistical learning theory, machine learning, applied harmonic analysis, and signal processing.
Anirudh Subramanyam
Charles and Enid Schneider Early Career Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
353 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-863-2365
Email: azs7266@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Computational methods for nonlinear and discrete optimization under uncertainty to address problems in energy, transportation, supply chain, and critical infrustructure systems.
Brian Swenson
Assistant Research Professor
5130A ARL Main Lab
Phone: 814-863-6319
Email: bms6703@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Optimization, distributed multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, and game-theoretic learning.
Juliana Vasco-Correa
Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Office: 211 Agricultural Engineering Building
Phone: 814-865-8841
Email: julianavasco@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Bioproducts systems analysis, bioprocess engineering, biomass valorization, biosystems techno-economic analysis, and life-cycle assessment.
Jose A. Ventura
Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering, Dean’s Fellow, Chair of Operations Research Graduate Program
Office: 356 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-865-3841
Email: jav1@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Mathematical programming, design and optimization of transportation networks, production scheduling, inventory control, supply chain management, facility layout, and material handling.
Robert D. Weaver
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Office: 201E Armsby Building
Phone: 814-863-8632
Fax: 814-865-3746
Email: rdweaver@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interest: Applied econometrics, household and firm-level choice & performance, computational simulation, applied game modeling, and adaptation to climate change.
Mort D. Webster
Professor of Energy Engineering
and Associate Department Head for Graduate Education, Energy and Mineral Engineering
Office: 123 Hosler Building
Phone: 814-863-1640
Email: mort@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interest: Stochastic processes, stochastic optimization and dynamic programming, electric power systems planning and operations, energy systems design under uncertainty, and environmental regulatory design.
Lingzhou Xue
Associate Professor of Statistics
Office: 318 Thomas Building
Phone: 814-865-1290
Email:lzxue@psu.edu
Department Website or Personal Website
Research Interests: Statistical learning and data mining, high dimensional statistical inference, large scale convex/nonconvex optimization algorithms, statistical analysis of big data, high dimensional data and large-scale networks, statistical modeling in health science, information engineering, business analytics, and finance
Hui Yang
Professor of Industrial Engineering
Office: 221 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-865-7397
Email:huy25@psu.edu
Department Website or Personal Website
Research Interests: Sensing systems, data analytics, artificial intelligence, network science, computer simulation, quality engineering and applied statistics, smart manufacturing, smart health, and healthcare informatics.
Manzhu Yu
Assistant Professor of Geography
Office: 317 Walker Building
Phone: 814-867-5881
Email:mqy5198@psu.edu
Department Website or Personal Website
Research Interests: Spatiotemporal theories and applications, atmospheric modeling, environmental analytics, big data and cloud computing, and the ability of using the above to solve pressing issues in natural hazards and sustainability.
Yuting Yuan
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management
Office: 426 Business Building
Phone: 814-865-1866
Email:yxy5520@psu.edu
Department Website or Personal Website
Research Interests: Understanding and improving service operations and enhancing interpretability in high-stakes decision-making.
Michael Yukish
Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Office: 4110D Applied Science Building
Phone: 814-863-7143
Email:may106@psu.edu
Personal or Department Website
Research Interests: Trade space analysis and complex systems design, set-based design, applications of additive manufacturing, application of AI and machine learning to product design and manufacturing process development, unmanned air systems design and test, and rapid prototyping of systems for sustainability and operational applications.
Yue Zhang
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management
Office: 463 Business Building
Phone: 814-863-7203
Email: yue.zhang@psu.edu
Department Website or Personal Website
Research Interests: Global inventory planning and sourcing strategies, additive manufacturing and spare part logistics, mass customization, technology innovation and supply chain, product variety and process design, and procurement contracting.
Hui Zhao
Professor of Supply Chain Management, Charles and Lilian Binder Faculty Fellow
Office: 419 Business Building
Phone: 814-863-1940
Email: huz10@psu.edu
Department Website or Personal Website
Research Interests: Collaboration in decentralized supply chains, pharmaceutical supply chains, healthcare operations, and information asymmetry.