Faculty and staff

The faculty, staff and students in the School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering are friendly, collegial and committed to providing you with an outstanding academic experience. 

Faculty

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Mohammad T. Khasawneh

SUNY Distinguished Prof; Department Chair; Healthcare Systems Engineering / Health Systems / Manhattan Graduate Program Director

School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

  • Healthcare delivery systems
  • Human factors engineering/ergonomics
  • Digital human modeling in manufacturing and healthcare
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Ankit Bansal

Assistant Professor

School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

  • Integer programming
  • Bi-level optimization
  • Robust optimization
  • Large-scale optimization
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nagendra N. Nagarur

Professor

School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

  • Supply chain modeling
  • Reliability of micro electronic components
  • Quality control
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Bahgat G. Sammakia

Director of CHIRP at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ; Distinguished Professor; Vice President for Research; Dir of CHIRP at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ 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
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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
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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
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Hiroki Sayama

SUNY Distinguished Professor

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
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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
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Yong Wang

Associate Professor, Associate School Chair

School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

  • Autonomous systems
  • Energy systems
  • Manufacturing systems
  • Healthcare systems
  • Operations research
  • Data science
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Yuxin Wang

Assistant Professor

School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

  • Water quality related to human activity and technology development
  • Risk assessment of contaminants
  • Water-energy nexus
  • Urban water system and sustainability
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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
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Adjunct Lecturers

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Srikanth Poranki

Adjunct Lecturer (Director, Office of Strategy Management, UHS-CMH)

School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
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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 Research Scientists

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Nelson Fernandez

Research Scholar
Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
nfernandezpa@binghamton.edu 

hamed

Ahmed Abdeen Hamed

Research Fellow
Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
ahamed1@binghamton.edu 

kinoshita

Shuichi Kinoshita

Research Scholar
Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
skinoshita@binghamton.edu 

wang

Xuan Wang

Research Scientist
Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
wangx@binghamton.edu


Faculty Emeritus

Don Gause

Don Gause

Professor Emeritus

Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
George Klir

George Klir

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Staff