Faculty Directory
Andrew, Rich William
Associate Professor of Hospitality Management/Finance
201H Mateer Building
814-863-0272 / Fax: 814-863-4257
Research Interests: Apllied and theoretical aspects of financial management relating to domestic and international hospitality and non-commercial housing, feeding, and tourism; applications of management science theory to the same areas.
Antle, Charles
Professor Emeritus of Statistics
325 Joab L. Thomas Building
814-865-3631 / Fax: 814-863-7114
Research Interests: Mathematical Programming, Applied Decision Theory, Bayesian Models.
Armaou, Antonios
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
170 Fenske Laboratory
814-865-5316 / Fax: 814-865-7846
Research Interests: Process Dynamics and Control; Computational Modeling and Applied Mathematics; Process Design and Analysis.
Arnold, Steven F.
Professor of Statistics
326 Joab L. Thomas Building
814-865-3557 / Fax: 814-863-7114
Research Interests: Decision Theory, Multivariate Analysis, Repeated Measures.
Barton, Russell
Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
406 Business Building
814-863-7289 / Fax: 814-865-7064
Research Interests: Engineering Optimization, Design of Experiments, Simulation Optimization.
Blumsack, Seth
Assistant Professor of Energy Policy and Economics
124 Hosler Building
814-863-7597
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, unconventional natural gas
Byrne, Christopher C.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Research Associate
406 Business Building
814-863-7289 / Fax: 814-865-7064
Research Interests: Game Theory.
Castillo, Enrique del,
Professor of Industrial Engineering
357 Leonhard Building
814-863-4745
Research Interests: Statistical and Time Series Process Control, Experimental Optimization and Response Surface Methods.
Cavalier, Tom M.
Professor Emeritus, Industrial Engineering
Research Interests: Mathematical Programming, Applied Optimization, Location Problems, Network Optimization.
Chandra, M. Jeya
Professor of Industrial Engineering
205 Leonhard Building
814-863-2358
Research Interests: Statistical Quality Control, Applied Stochastic Processes, Inventory Control.
Chatterjee, Kalyan
Distinguished Professor of Management Science and Economics
504 Kern Building
Research Interests: Game Theory, Decision Theory, Industrial Organization.
Coulson, Edward
Professor of Economics
508 Kern Graduate Building
814-863-0625
Research Interests:
Desarbo, Wayne Stewart
Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal Distinguished Chair Professor of Marketing
433 Business Building
814-865-8150
Research Interests: Multidimensional scaling, classification, and multivariate statistics, especially as they pertain to substantive marketing problems in positioning, market structure, consumer choice, market segmentation, and competitive strategy.
Enscore, E. Emory
Professor Emeritus, Industrial Engineering
310 Leonhard Building
Research Interests: Production Control with Focus on Scheduling, Plant Layout, Material Handling, Maintenance.
Ertekin, Turgay
Trimble Chair & Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas
101 Hosler Building
814-865-6082
Research Interests: Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow Dynamics in Porous Media, Well Test Areas, Coalbed Methane Degasification, Enhanced Oil Recovery.
Findeis, Jill L.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography
112 E Armsby Building
Research Interests: Agricultural Household Models, Economic Development/Trade, Labor.
Fong, Duncan K. H.
Professor of Marketing
455B Business Building
814-863-3541
Research Interests: Bayesian Analysis, Marketing Research, Forecasting, and Inventory.
Friesz, Terry L.
Professor of Industrial Engineering
305 Leonhard Building
814-863-2445
Research Interests: network science, supply chains, logistics, and freight systems, combined industrial location, production, and distribution,auctions, real options, and pricing of services, electronic commerce and models of the Internet.
Gordon, Richard L.
Professor Emeritus of Mineral Economics
2217 Energy-Engineering Science Building
814-865-0631
Research Interests: Application of Operations Research to Mineral Market Problems.
Griffin, Paul
Professor of Industrial Engineering, Peter and Angela Dal Pezzo Department Head Chair
310 Leonhard Building
814-865-7601
Research Interests: Cost-effectiveness modeling of public health interventions, Health logistics and access, Supply chain coordination and control
Guide, Daniel
Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management & Charles and Lillian Binder Faculty Fellow
411 Business Building
814-865-6103
Research Interests: Development and control of closed-loop supply chains, time-based models for commercial product returns, remanufacturing and producer responsibility legislation.
Hallberg, Milton C.
Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics
204 Armsby Building
814-863-8631
Research Interests: Agricultural Marketing/Policy.
Harmonsky, Catherine M.
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
304 Leonhard Building
814-865-2107
Research Interests: Manufacturing Systems Analysis, Simulation, Scheduling, Real-Time Production Control.
Harrison, Terry P.
Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
459 Business Building
814-863-3357
Research Interests: Large Scale Production Planning and Distribution, Supply Chain Modeling, Coordination and Design, Multi criteria Optimization, Management of Natural Resources.
Hayya, Jack C.
Professor Emeritus, of Supply Chain and Information Systems
441 Business Building
814-865-2219
Research Interests: Supply Chain, Optimization
Heinemann, Paul H.
Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Department Head
250 Agricultural Engineering Building
814-865-7792
Research Interests: Optimization of Agricultural Production and Processing Systems, Application of Artificial Intelligence to Agricultural Processing and Production.
Huang, Zan
Adjunct Associate Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
454 Business Building
814-863-1940
Research Interests: Information systems, e-commerce, network theory, recommender Systems.
Hunter, David
Associate Professor of Statistics
310 Thomas Building
814-863-0979
Research Interests: Computational statistics, network models, mixture models
Joshi, Sanjay
Professor of Industrial Engineering
303 Leonhard Building
814-865-2108
Research Interests: Control of Manufacturing Systems, Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, Geometric Problems in Design & Manufacturing, Process Planning, Rapid Prototyping and Tooling.
Katok, Elena
Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
465 Business Building
814-863-2180
Research Interests: Applied operations management/management science, Decision making and decision support systems, Market Design.
Kesidis, George
Professor of Electrical Engineering
338J IST Building
814-865-9190
Research Interest: Communication networks, effective bandwidths and traffic modeling.
Kleindorfer, George B
Professor Emeritus of Quantitative Business Analysis
454 Beam Building
814-865-4170
Research Interests: Computer simulation techniques, Control theory, Philosophy of science.
Kremer, Gul E. Okudan
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
213T Hammond Building
814-863-1530
Research Interests: Developing tools and methods for the early stages in the engineering design process, Understand human and social dynamics in design contexts, Developing and investigating innovation/problem solving enabling methods
Kumar, Akhil
Professor of Information Systems
420 Business Building
814-863-0034
Research Interests: Health IT, BPM and workflow systems, service composition, process mining and business analytics
Kumara, Soundar
Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering
222 Leonhard Building
814-863-2359
Research Interests: Intelligent Systems, Sensor Data Fusion, Process Data Monitoring and Diagnostics, Applied Chaos Theory and Logistics.
Lambert, Joseph M
Senior Associate Dean Emeritus
316A Information Science and Technology Building
814-863-9463
Research Interests: Fuzzy Decision Models, Simulation, Numerical Methods.
Lilien, Gary L.
Distinguished Research Professor of Management Science
484 Business Building
814-863-2782
Research Interests: Marketing Models, Bargaining/Bidding.
Lin, Dennis
Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Supply Chain Management
483 Business Building
814-865-0377
Research Interests: Industrial Statistics, Design of Experiment, Response Surface Methodology, Quality Assurance & Six-Sigma, Statistical Data Mining, BIG (Business, Industrial & Government) Statistics.
Maranas, Costas
Professor of Chemical Engineering
112A Fenske Laboratory
814-863-9958
Research Interests: Molecular and Product Design, Supply Chain Optimization, Optimization Theory and Algorithms.
McCool, John I.
Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering
Penn State Great Valley
610-648-3255
Research Interests: Reliability, Tribology, Measurement and Analysis of Rough Surfaces, Production Performance, Gaging, Signal Processing.
McDill, Marc Eric
Associate Professor of Forest Resource Management
310 Forest Resource Building
814-865-1602
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, regional development.
Medeiros, Deborah J.
Associate Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests: Applications of Discrete Event Simulation, Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, Material Handling in Manufacturing and Distribution.
Messner, John I.
Professor of Architectural Engineering
104 Engineering Unit A
814-865-4578
Research Interests: Advanced visualization technologies to improve project design and construction education, Construction globalization and strategic management in construction procurement methods
Mutmansky, Jan M.
Professor Emeritus of Mining Engineering
232 Hosler Building
814-865-3802
Research Interests: Mine ventilation, Mine dust control, Coalbed methane economics
Myers, Wayne L.
Professor of Forest Biometrics Emeritus
109 Land & Water Research Bldg.
814-863-0002 or 814-865-4427
Research Interests: Forest fire management, Forest resource biometrics, Forest inventory. Forest management.
Nembhard, Harriet Black
Professor of Industrial Engineering
360 Leonhard Building
814-865-4210
Research Interests: Design and implementation of concepts and methods of quality, productivity, and system improvement for manufacturing organizations.
Passmore, David
Professor of Workforce Education and Development
305D Keller Building
814-863-2583
Research Interests: Input-output Analysis.
Prabhu, Vittaldas V
Professor of Industrial Engineering
348 Leonhard Building
814-863-3212
Research Interests: Control Theory, Manufacturing, Operations Research.
Preciado-Walters, Felisa
Clinical Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management
436 Business Building
814-863-5882
Research Interests:
Ramani, Raja V.
Professor Emeritus, Mining Engineering and Geo-Enviromental Engineering
209 Research West
814-863-1617
Research Interests: Simulation, Mathematical Programming, Statistics.
Rangaswamy, Arvind
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Anchel Professor of Marketing
210E Business Building
814-865-1907
Research Interests: e-Marketing/e-Business, Marketing Engineering, Marketing Decision Models.
Ravindran, A. "Ravi
Professor of Industrial Engineering
352 Leonhard Building
814-865-7840
Research Interests: Applied Operations Research, Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Goal Programming, Engineering Optimization, Supply Chain Optimization.
Ray, Charles David
Assistant Professor of Wood Products Operations
205 Forest Resources Building
814-865-0679
Research Interests: Wood products operations management; operations research; process control, simulation, and optimization; statistical quality control; relationships of wood, moisture, product properties, and environmental emissions; artificial intelligence; non-destructive evaluation of wood products; lean manufacturing; quality management systems.
Reed, Patrick M.
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
231M Sackett Building
814-863-2940
Research Interests: Water resources systems analysis, prediction under uncertainty.
Rothwell, William J.
Professor of Workforce Education and Development
310B Keller Building
814-863-2581
Research Interest:
Saunders, Michael
Professor of Entomology
514 Agricultural Sci & Ind Building
814-863-2979
Research Interests: Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, Pest Management of Arthpods.
Shankar, Venky N.
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
226 C Sacket Building
814-865-9434
Research Interests: Econometric analysis of transportation systems, modeling of travel demand, safety, infrastructure and interactions with the environment.
Shortle, James S.
Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
112C Armsby Building
814-865-3746
Research Interests: Environmental Policy Analysis, Use of Mathematical Programming Models to Simulate Policy Impact on Firms and Markets.
Shu, Jun
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
462 Business Building
814-865-7019
Research Interests: Game Theory and Economics of networks, networking and system engineering, logistics, transportation and database, robotics and manufacturing.
Simpson, Timothy, W.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering
314 Leonhard Building
814-863-7136
Research Interests: Engineering Design and Optimization, Product Family, and Product Platform Design and Mass Customization.
Stefanou, Spiro E.
Professor of Agricultural Economics
208B Armsby Building
814-863-8635
Research Interests: Dynamic Theory of Economic Adjustment, Efficiency and Productivity Measurement, and Innovation Models.
Thomas, Douglas
Associate Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
463 Business Building
814-863-7203
Research Interests: eCommerce Implications for Supply Chain Management, Warehousing and Fulfillment, Supply Chain Strategy.
Transchel, Sandra
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management
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Vaserstein, Leonid N.
Professor of Mathematics
215 McAllister Building
814-865-0584
Research Interests: Classical Groups, Operations Research.
Ventura, Jose A.
Professor of Industrial Engineering
356 Leonhard Building
814-863-3841
Research Interests: Nonlinear Network Optimization, Computational Geometry Applied to Vision Inspection, Scheduling.
Wagener, Thorsten
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
231F Sacket Building
814-865-5673
Research Interests: Modeling and analysis of environmental systems, model identification and diagnostic evaluation, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, predictions in ungauged basins, data assimilation, integrated assessment, impacts of land-use and climate change.
Walker, Paul N.
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
223 Agricultural Engineering Building
814-865-4582
Research Interests: Modeling biological Systems Including Plant Tissue Control, Greenhouses and Grain Drying.
Weaver, Robert D.
Professor of Agricultural Economics
201E Armsby Building
814-863-8632
Research Interest: microeconomic and econometric analysis of public policy targeted at the performance of agricultural production and marketing systems.
Wysk, Richard A.
Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering
Research Interest: Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Computer Automated Manufacturing, Computer Aided Process Planning, Concurrent Engineering.
Xu, Susan H.
Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
478 Business Building
814-863-0531
Research Interests: Stochastic Scheduling, Stochastic Optimization, Control of Queues, Inventory Systems.
Yao, Tao
Associate Professor of Industrial and Management Engineering
349 Leonhard Building
814-865-8040
Research Interests: Decision making under uncertainty, real options, management of technology and information systems, manufacturing and service operations. Stochastic models, optimization, game theory.