Faculty
Andrew, Rich William , Ph.D. (Penn State) Associate Professor of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management 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 Office Address: 201H Mateer Building Fax: 814-863-4257 Office Phone: 814-863-0272 E-mail:wpa@psu.edu
Antle, Charles , Ph.D. (Oklahoma State) Professor Emeritus of Statistics Research Interests: Mathematical Programming, Applied Decision Theory, Bayesian Models Office Address: 325 Joab L. Thomas Building Fax: 814-863-7114 Office Phone: 814-865-3631 E-mail:cea@psu.edu
Antonios Armaou, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles) Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Research Interests: Process Dynamics and Control; Computational Modeling and Applied Mathematics; Process Design and Analysis Office Address: 170 Fenske Laboratory Phone: (814) 865-5316 Fax: (814) 865-7846 Email: armaou@engr.psu.edu
Arnold, Steven F. , Ph.D. (Stanford) Professor of Statistics Research Interests: Decision Theory, Multivariate Analysis, Repeated Measures Office Address: 326 Joab L. Thomas Building Fax: 814-863-7114 Office Phone: 814-865-3557 E-mail: sfa@psu.edu
Barton, Russell , Ph.D. (Cornell) Professor of Management Science Research Interests: Engineering Optimization, Design of Experiments, Simulation Optimization Office Address: 406 Business Building Fax: 814-865-7064 Office Phone: 814-863-7289 E-mail: rrb2@psu.edu
Byrne, Christopher C., Ph.D. (Penn State) Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Research Associate Research Interests: Game Theory Office Address: 463 ARL Building Fax: Office Phone: 814-863-4343 E-mail:ccb102@psu.edu
Castillo, Enrique del, Ph. D. (Arizona State) Professor of Industrial Engineering Research Interests: Statistical and Time Series Process Control, Experimental Optimization and Response Surface Methods. Office Address: 357 Leonhard Building Fax: 814-863-4748 Office Phone: 814-863-6408 E-mail: exd13@psu.edu
Cavalier, Tom M. , Ph.D. (Virginia Tech) Professor of Industrial Engineering Research Interests: Mathematical Programming, Applied Optimization, Location Problems, Network Optimization Office Address: 310 Leonhard Building Fax: 814-863-4745 Office Phone: 814-863-2371 E-mail:tmc7@psu.edu
Chandra, M. Jeya , Ph.D. (Syracuse) Professor of Industrial Engineering Research Interests: Statistical Quality Control, Applied Stochastic Processes, Inventory Control Office Address: 310 Leonhard Building Fax: 814-863-4745 Office Phone: 814-863-2358 E-mail: mjc3@psu.edu
Chatterjee, Kalyan , D.B.A. (Harvard) Distinguished Professor of Management Science and Economics Research Interests: Game Theory, Decision Theory, Industrial Organization Office Address: 504 Kern Building Fax: 814-863-2381 Office Phone: 814-865-6050 E-mail: k1c@psu.edu
Coulson, N. Edward , Ph.D. (U. Cal., San Diego) Professor of Economics Research Interests: Office Address: 508 Kern Graduate Building Fax: Office Phone: 814-863-0625 E-mail: fyj@psu.edu
Enscore, E. Emory , Ph.D. (Penn State) Professor Emeritus, Industrial Engineering Research Interests: Production Control with Focus on Scheduling, Plant Layout, Material Handling, Maintenance Office Address: 310 Leonhard Building Fax: 814-863-4745 Office Phone: 814-863-2353 E-mail: eee1@psu.edu
Ertekin, Turgay , Ph.D. (Penn State) Trimble Chair & Professor of Energy & Geo-Env Engineering Research Interests: Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow Dynamics in Porous Media, Well Test Areas, Coalbed Methane Degasification, Enhanced Oil Recovery Office Address: 115 Hosler Building Fax: 814-863-1875 Office Phone: 814-865-6082 E-mail:eur@psu.edu
Findeis, Jill L. , Ph.D. (Washington State) Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography Research Interests: Agricultural Household Models, Economic Development/Trade, Labor Office Address: 112 E Armsby Building Fax: 814-865-3746 Office Phone: 814-863-8246 E-mail:fa2@psu.edu
Fong, Duncan K. H. , Ph.D. (Purdue) Professor of Marketing Research Interests: Bayesian Analysis, Marketing Research, Forecasting, and Inventory Office Address: 456 Business Building Fax: 814-863-2381 Office Phone: 814-863-3541 E-mail: i2v@psu.edu
Freimer, Mike, Ph.D. (Cornell) Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems Research Interests: Simulation and applications, perturbation analysis, stochastic modeling Office Address: 460 Business Building Fax: 814-863-2381 Office Phone: 814-865-5234 E-mail: mbf10@psu.edu
Friesz, Terry L., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University 1978) Professor of Industrial Engineering Research Interest: 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 Office Address: 305 Leonhard Building Fax: 814-863-4745 Phone: 814-863-2445 E-mail: tfriesz@psu.edu
Gordon, Richard L. , Ph.D. (MIT) Professor Emeritus of Mineral Economics Research Interests: Application of Operations Research to Mineral Market Problems Office Address: 2217 Energy-Engineering Science Building Fax: 814-863-7433 Office Phone: 814-865-0631 E-mail:rlg3@psu.edu
Guide, Daniel, Ph.D. (The University of Georgia) Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management Research Interests: Development and control of closed-loop supply chains, time-based models for commercial product returns, remanufacturing and producer responsibility legislation. Office Address: 464 Business Building Phone: 814-865-6103 Fax: 814-863-7067 E-mail: dguide@psu.edu
Hallberg, Milton C., Ph.D. (Iowa State) Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics Research Interests: Agricultural Marketing/Policy Office Address: 103 Armsby Building Fax: 814-865-3746 Office Phone: 814-865-5461 E-mail: mch@psu.edu
Harmonsky, Catherine M. , Ph.D. (Purdue) Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering Research Interests: Manufacturing Systems Analysis, Simulation, Scheduling, Real-Time Production Control Office Address: 304 Leonhard Building Fax: 814-863-4745 Office Phone: 814-865-2107 E-mail:c1h@psu.edu
Harrison, Terry P. , Ph.D. (Tennessee) Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems Research Interests: Large Scale Production Planning and Distribution, Supply Chain Modeling, Coordination and Design, Multi criteria Optimization, Management of Natural Resources Office Address: 459 Business Building Fax: 814-863-2381 Office Phone: 814-863-3357 E-mail: tharrison@psu.edu
Hayya, Jack C. , Ph.D. (UCLA) Professor Emeritus, Management Science Office Address: 441 Business Building Fax: 814-863-7069 Office Phone: 814-865-1866 E-mail: jch@psu.edu
Heinemann, Paul H. , Ph.D. (Florida) Professor of Agricultural Engineering Research Interests: Optimization of Agricultural Production and Processing Systems, Application of Artificial Intelligence to Agricultural Processing and Production Office Address: 220 Agricultural Engineering Building Fax: 814-863-1031 Office Phone: 814-865-2633 E-mail: hzh@psu.edu
Huang, Zan, Ph.D. (University of Arizona) Assistant Professor of Information Systems Research Interests: Information systems, e-commerce, network theory, recommender Systems Office Address: 419 Business Building Office Phone: (814) 863-1940 E-mail: zanhuang@psu.edu
Joshi, Sanjay, Ph.D. (Purdue University) Professor of Industrial Engineer Research Interests: Control of Manufacturing Systems, Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, Geometric Problems in Design & Manufacturing, Process Planning, Rapid Prototyping and Tooling Office: 303 Leonhard Building Phone: (814) 865-2108 Fax: Fax: (814) 863-4745 E-mail: sjoshi@psu.edu
Katok, Elena, Ph.D. (Penn State University) Associate Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems Research Interests: Applied operations management/management science, Decision making and decision support systems, Market Design. Office Address: 465 Business Building Office Phone: 814-863-2180 E-mail: ekatok@psu.edu
Kesidis, George, Ph.D. (U.C. Berkeley, 1992) Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering Research Interest: Communication networks, effective bandwidths and traffic modeling Office Address: 338J IST Building Phone: (814) 865-9190 FAX: (814) 865-7065 E-mail: kesidis@engr.psu.edu
Kleindorfer, George B., Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon) Professor Emeritus of Quantitative Business Analysis Research Interests: Computer simulation techniques, Control theory, Philosophy of science Office Address: 303 Beam Building Fax: 814-863-2381 Office Phone: 814-863-3571 E-mail: gbk@psu.edu
Kumara, Soundar, Ph.D., (Purdue University), Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering Research Interests: Intelligent Systems, Sensor Data Fusion, Process Data Monitoring and Diagnostics, Applied Chaos Theory and Logistics Office Address: 363 Leonhard Building Fax: (814) 863-4745 Office Phone: (814) 863-2359 Email: skumara@psu.edu
Lambert, Joseph M., Ph.D. (Purdue) Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology Research Interests: Fuzzy Decision Models, Simulation, Numerical Methods Office Address: 332G Information Science and Technology Building Fax: 814-865-6426 Office Phone: 814-865-3528 E-mail: j9l@psu.edu
Lilien, Gary L. , D.E.S. (Columbia) Distinguished Research Professor of Management Science Research Interests: Marketing Models, Bargaining/Bidding Office Address: 484 Business Building Fax: 814-863-0413 Office Phone: 814-863-2782 E-mail: g5l@psu.edu
Lin, Dennis, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) University Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Supply Chain Management Research Interests: Industrial Statistics, Design of Experiment, Response Surface Methodology, Quality Assurance & Six-Sigma, Statistical Data Mining, BIG (Business, Industrial & Government) Statistics Office: 483 Business Building Phone: 814-865-0377 Fax: 814-863-7067 E-mail: dkl5@psu.edu
Lowe, Timothy, Ph.D., (Northwestern University), Smeal Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems Research Interests: Operations Management, Facility Location/Design, Logistics, Mathematical Programming: Theory and Applications Office Address: 480 Business Building Office Phone: (814) 865-1206 E-mail: tjl12@psu.edu
Maranas, Costas , Ph.D. (Princeton) Professor of Chemical Engineering Research Interests: Molecular and Product Design, Supply Chain Optimization, Optimization Theory and Algorithms Office Address: 112A Fenske Laboratory Fax: 814-865-7846 Office Phone: 814-863-9958 E-mail: costas@psu.edu
McCool, John I., Ph.D. (Temple) Professor of Industrial Engineering Research Interests: Reliability, Tribology, Measurement and Analysis of Rough Surfaces, Production Performance, Gaging, Signal Processing Office Address: Penn State Great Valley Fax: Office Phone: 610-648-3255 E-mail: mpt@psu.edu
McDill, Marc Eric, Ph.D(Virginia Tech), Associate Professor of Forest Resource Management 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. Office Address: 214B Ferguson Building Fax: Office Phone: 814-865-1602 E-mail: mem14@psu.edu
Myers, Wayne L., Ph.D. (University of Michigan) Professor of Forest Biometrics and Assistant Director for Graduate Studies, School of Forest Resources Research Interests: Forest fire management, Forest resource biometrics, Forest inventory. Forest management. Office: 109 Land & Water Research Bldg. Phone: (814) 863-0002 or (814) 865-4427 Fax: (814) 865-3378 E-mail: wlm@psu.edu
Nembhard, Harriet Black, Ph.D. (University of Michigan) Associate Professor and Bashore Career Professor Research Interests: Design and implementation of concepts and methods of quality, productivity, and system improvement for manufacturing organizations Office Address: 212 Leonhard Building Fax: (814) 863-4745 Office Phone: (814) 865-4210 Email: hbnembhard@psu.edu
Passmore, David ,Ph.D., Professor of Workforce Education and Development Research Interests: Input-output Analysis Office Address: 315 Keller Building Fax: 814-863-7532 Office Phone: 814-863-2583 E-mail:DPassmore@psu.edu
Prabhu, Vittaldas V, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering Research Interests: Control Theory, Manufacturing, Operations Research Office: 0310 LEONHARD BUILDING Phone: 814-863-3212 E-mail: Vxp7@Psu.Edu
Ramani, Raja V., Ph.D. (Penn State) Professor Emeritus, Mining Engineering Research Interests: Simulation, Mathematical Programming, Statistics Office Address: 204 Deike Building Fax: 814-863-3248 Office Phone: 814-863-1621 E-mail: rvr@psu.edu
Rangaswamy, Arvind, Ph.D. (Northwestern University) Anchel Professor of Marketing, Research Director eBusiness Research Center Research Interests: e-Marketing/e-Business, Marketing Engineering, Marketing Decision Models Office: 481 Business Building Phone: 814-865-1907 Fax: 814-865-3015 E-mail: arvindr@psu.edu
Ravindran, A. "Ravi" , Ph.D. (Berkeley) Professor of Industrial Engineering Research Interests: Applied Operations Research, Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Goal Programming, Engineering Optimization, Supply Chain Optimization Office Address: 310 Leonhard Building Fax: 814-863-4745 Office Phone: 814-865-7601 E-mail:axr32@psu.edu
Ray, Charles David, Ph.D., (Texas A&M), Assistant Professor of Wood Products Operations 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. Office Address: 312 Forest Resources Lab Office Phone: 814-865-0679 E-mail: cdr14@psu.edu
Reed, Patrick M. Ph.D. (University of Illinois), Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Research Interests: Water resources systems analysis, prediction under uncertainty multi-objective optimization, evolutionary computation, high performance computing, scientific visualization
Office Address: 231M Sackett Building
Fax: 814-863-7304
Office Phone: 814-863-2940
Email: preed@engr.psu.edu
Rothwell, William J. , Ph.D. Professor of Workforce Education and Development Research Interest: Office Address: 315 Keller Building Fax: 814-863-7532 Office Phone: 814-863-2581 E-mail: wjr9@psu.edu
Saunders, Michael ,Ph.D. (Georgia) Professor of Entomology Research Interests: Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, Pest Management of Arthpods Office Address: 514 Agricultural Sci & Ind Building Fax: Office Phone: 814-863-2979 E-mail: mcs5@psu.edu
Shankar, Venky N., Ph.D. (University of Washington), Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
Research Interests: Econometric analysis of transportation systems, modeling of travel demand, safety, infrastructure
and interactions with the environment
Office Address: 226 C Sacket Building
Fax: 814-863-7304 Office Phone: 814-865-9434
E-mail: shankarv@engr.psu.edu
Shortle, James S. , Ph.D. (Iowa State) Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics Research Interests: Environmental Policy Analysis, Use of Mathematical Programming Models to Simulate Policy Impact on Firms and Markets Office Address: 112 A Armsby Building Fax: 814-865-3746 Office Phone: 814-865-7657 E-mail: jss15@psu.edu
Shu, Jun Ph.D. (Berkeley) Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems Research Interests: Game Theory and Economics of networks, networking and system engineering, logistics, transportation and database, robotics and manufacturing Office Address: 462 Business Building Fax: 814-863-7067 Office Phone: 814-865-7019 E-mail: junshu@psu.edu
Simpson, Timothy, W. ,Ph.D. (Georgia Tech) Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering Research Interests: Engineering Design and Optimization, Product Family, and Product Platform Design and Mass Customization Office: 329 Leonhard Building Fax: 814-863-4745 Office Phone: 814-863-7136 E-mail: tws8@psu.edu
Stefanou, Spiro E. , Ph.D. (California, Davis) Professor of Agricultural Economics Research Interests: Dynamic Theory of Economic Adjustment, Efficiency and Productivity Measurement, and Innovation Models Office Address: 208 C Armsby Building Fax: 814-865-3746 Office Phone: 814-863-8635 E-mail: ttc@psu.edu
Thomas, Douglas, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech) Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems Research Interests: eCommerce Implications for Supply Chain Management, Warehousing and Fulfillment, Supply Chain Strategy Office Address: 463 Business Building Fax: Office Phone: 814-863-7203 E-mail: dthomas@psu.edu
Vaserstein, Leonid N. , Ph.D. (Moscow State) Professor of Mathematics Research Interests: Classical Groups, Operations Research Office Address: 205 McAllister Building Fax: 814-865-3735 Office Phone: 814-865-0584 E-mail: vstein@math.psu.edu
Ventura, Jose A. , Ph.D. (Florida) Professor of Industrial Engineering Research Interests: Nonlinear Network Optimization, Computational Geometry Applied to Vision Inspection, Scheduling Office Address: 356 Leonhard Building Fax: 814-863-4745 Office Phone: 814-863-3841 E-mail: jav1@psu.edu
Wagener, Thorsten., Ph.D. (Imperial College, London) , Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering 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
Office Address: 226 B Sacket Building Fax: 814-863-7304 Office Phone: 814-865-5673 E-mail: thorsten@engr.psu.edu
Walker, Paul N. , Ph.D. (Massachussets) Professor of Agricultural Engineering Research Interests: Modeling biological Systems Including Plant Tissue Control, Greenhouses and Grain Drying Office Address: 223 Agricultural Engineering Building Fax: 814-863-1031 Office Phone: 814-865-4582 E-mail: pnw@psu.edu
Weaver, Robert D., Ph.D. (Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1977), Professor of Agricultural Economics Research Interest: microeconomic and econometric analysis of public policy targeted at the performance of agricultural production and marketing systems. Office Address: 207D Armsby Building Phone: 814-863-8632 FAX: 814-865-3746 E-mail: r2w@psu.edu
Wysk, Richard A., Ph.D. (Purdue University) Professor of Industrial Engineering Research Interest: Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Computer Automated Manufacturing, Computer Aided Process Planning, Concurrent Engineering. Office: 207 Hammond Building Phone: (814) 863 - 1001 E-mail: rwysk@psu.edu
Xu, Susan H. , Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic) Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems Research Interests: Stochastic Scheduling, Stochastic Optimization, Control of Queues, Inventory Systems Office Address: 478 Business Building Fax: 814-863-7067 Office Phone: 814-863-0531 E-mail: shx@psu.edu
Yao, Tao, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Assistant Professor of Industrial and Management Engineering Research Interests: Decision making under uncertainty, real options, management of technology and information systems, manufacturing and service operations. Stochastic models, optimization, game theory Office Address: 349 Leonhard Building Office Phone: (814)865-8040 E-mail: taoyao@psu.edu