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Faculty

Mohammad T. Khasawneh
SUNY Distinguished Prof; School Director; Healthcare Systems Engineering / Health Systems / Manhattan Graduate Program Director
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Healthcare systems engineering
- Operations management
- Advanced analytics

Ankit Bansal
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Integer programming
- Bi-level optimization
- Robust optimization
- Large-scale optimization

Peter Borgesen
SUNY Empire Innovation Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Manufacturing processes and reliability
- Current emphasis on electronics packaging and flexible hybrid electronics reliability
- Cross-disciplinary experimental research (materials science, mechanics, industrial engineering), practical guidelines and models, incomplete data interpretation, statistics

Sreenath Chalil Madathil
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Operations research
- Data science
- Healthcare systems
- Patient experience
- Healthcare disparities

Changqing Cheng
Associate Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Uncertainty quantification
- Optimal design
- Epidemic modeling

Sung Hoon Chung
Associate Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Healthcare operations management
- Supply chain management
- Mathematical optimization
- Computational game theory

Jia Deng
Associate Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Advanced manufacturing
- Micro/nanofabrication
- Additive manufacturing

Melissa Zeynep Ertem
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Optimization and modelling
- Decision Support Systems
- Infectious disease modelling
- Public health optimization
- Social networks
- Machine learning on public health
- Network optimization

Carlos Gershenson-Garcia
SUNY Empire Innovation Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Artificial intelligence
- Complex systems
- Self-organization
- Artificial life
- Philosophy of science
- Healthcare
- Transportation
- Education

Christopher M Greene
Associate Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Industry 4.0
- Collaborative robots
- Quality engineering
- Artificial intelligence
- Electronics packaging
- Manufacturing systems

Saad Hamasha
Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Electronics manufacturing
- Solder materials
- Reliability and quality engineering

Kimberly Harry
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Continuous healthcare improvement
- Healthcare systems engineering
- Performance measurement
- Quality engineering

Sara Kohtz
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Data science
- Physics-informed machine learning
- Reliability engineering
- Prognostics and health management
- Optimal system design
- Energy systems

Sadamori Kojaku
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Complex systems
- Network science
- Computational social sciences
- Science of science
- Representation learning

Sarah S. Lam
Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Director
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Neural networks
- Evolutionary optimization
- Machine learning
- Simulation
- System modeling and optimization

Harold W. Lewis
Bartle Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Intelligent systems
- Fuzzy control
- Soft computing

Shuxia (Susan) Lu
Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Reliability
- Statistical process control
- Information technology
- Computer integrated manufacturing

Xiaotu Ma
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Advanced energy storage materials
- Lithium-ion batteries recycling
- Sustainable development of energy storage

Jennifer Gillis Mattson
Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Lifespan issues for neurodivergent and autistic individuals
- Service provider and parent training, support and professional development
- Dissemination and adaptation of evidence-based practices that benefit autistic individuals in limited-resource settings

Nagendra N. Nagarur
Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Supply chain modeling
- Reliability of micro electronic components
- Quality control

Fuda Ning
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Additive manufacturing
- Process innovation
- Process modeling and simulation

Neha Patankar
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Optimization and modeling
- Decision-making in complex systems
- Robust energy transition
- Power system planning
- Uncertainty quantification

Mark D. Poliks
SUNY Distinguished Professor; Undergraduate Director; Director, CAMM
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering; S3IP – Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging
Research Interests
- Electronic materials
- Electronics packaging
- Flexible electronics and roll-to-roll manufacturing
- Additive manufacturing
- Sensory systems

Srikanth Rangarajan
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Digital twinning and optimization of battery systems
- Thermal energy storage - design and optimization
- Thermal management, optimization and sustainability of electronic systems
- Advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration of electronic systems
- Data center cooling

Luis M. Rocha
George J. Klir Professor of Systems Science
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Complex networks and systems
- Computational and systems biology
- Computational intelligence
- Biomedical informatics

Bahgat G. Sammakia
Director of CHIRP at Binghamton University; Distinguished Professor; Vice President for Research; Dir of CHIRP at Binghamton Univ; Center Director of ES2; Director, S3IP; Center Director of ES2; Vice President for Research; Director, S3IP
Center for Heterogeneous Integration Research in Packaging (CHIRP); Mechanical Engineering; Center for Energy- Smart Electronic Systems (ES2); Research, Office of the Vice President for; S3IP – Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging
Research Interests
- Heat Transfer
- Electronics Packaging
- Thermal Management of Data Centers
- Heterogeneous Integration Research

Narmada Sambaturu
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Multi-scale, data-driven modeling of infectious diseases
- Mathematical modeling
- Immune system

Daryl Santos
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Production scheduling and control
- Engineering optimization
- Quality Assurance
- Engineering management
- Electronics packaging

Hiroki Sayama
Executive Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies; SUNY Distinguished Professor, School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science; School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Complex systems
- Complex dynamical networks
- Human and social dynamics
- Artificial life/chemistry
- Interactive systems
- Complex systems education

Chao Shi
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Human Factors
- Human-computer interaction
- Situation awareness
- Visual behavior and cognition
- Virtual reality, depression and AI
- Multi-robot system
- Autonomous driving in healthcare

Krishnaswami Srihari
SUNY Distinguished Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Electronic packaging and electronics manufacturing
- Health care delivery
- Health systems

Seiichi Takamatsu
Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Tough hybrid electronics
- Ultrathin silicon semiconductors
- Electronic textiles

Stephanie Tulk Jesso
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Human factors in healthcare
- Human-AI interaction and human-robot interaction
- Cognition, social cognition and social complexity
- Human-centered design
- Implementation science and translational research

Yong Wang
Associate Professor and Associate School Director
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Autonomous systems
- Energy systems
- Manufacturing systems
- Healthcare systems
- Operations research
- Data science

Yuxin Wang
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Energy systems and environment impacts
- Water quality related to human activity and technology development
- Risk assessment of contaminants
- Urban water system and sustainability

Zimo Wang
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Statistical/machine learning
- Smart manufacturing
- Advanced manufacturing processes
- Material characterization
- Diagnosis and quality assurance

Daehan Won
Associate Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Large scaled data analysis via mathematical programming and algorithms

Congyu Wu
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Human-centric sensing
- Smart health
- Social signal processing
- Computational social science

Sang Won Yoon
Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Decentralized decision modeling
- Realtime control in smart manufacturing
- Large-scale data mining optimization

Yingge Zhou
Assistant Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Tissue Engineering
- Additive Manufacturing
- Biomedical Manufacturing
Adjunct Lecturers

Srikanth Poranki
Adjunct Lecturer (Director, Office of Strategy Management, UHS-CMH)
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Michael Testani
Senior Director of Outreach and Engagement
Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science; Industrial Outreach and Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence
Visiting Faculty and Research Scholars

Ahmed Abdeen Hamed
Research Fellow
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Nelson Fernandez
Visiting Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Computational models in ecology and biology
- Self-organization and emergence in natural and socio-technical systems
- Design of complexity indicators and emergent properties
- Sports complexity and bio-inspired team formation
- Environmental valuation

Cliff Joslyn
Visiting Professor
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Mathematical systems theory and complex information systems
- Data science
- High order networks and computational topology
- Generalized uncertainty quantification and information theory
- Semantic technology and computational semiotics

Shuichi Kinoshita
Research Scholar
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Darshil Rajeshkumar Patel
Visiting Scholar
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Xuan Wang
Visiting Research Scientist
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Faculty Emeritus

Robert Emerson
Professor Emeritus
Systems Science and Industrial Engineering




Staff

Erin Hornbeck
Administrative Coordinator
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Shannah Hall
Administrative Assistant
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Andrew Jackson
Graduate Administrative Assistant
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering