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
Mohammad Khasawneh
SUNY Distinguished Prof; School Director; Healthcare Systems Engineering / Health Systems / Manhattan Graduate Program Director
Research Interests
- Healthcare systems engineering
- Operations management
- Advanced analytics
Abdul Hai Alami
aalalami@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Energy storage systems
- Materials synthesis and characterization
Abdullah Al-Mamun
malmamun1@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Health systems, services, and outcomes
- Health data science
- Health informatics and digital health
- Public health epidemiology
- Machine learning
Ankit Bansal
abansal@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Integer programming
- Bi-level optimization
- Robust optimization
- Large-scale optimization
Peter Borgesen
Professor of Empire Innovation
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
schalil@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Operations research
- Data science
- Healthcare systems
- Patient experience
- Healthcare disparities
Changqing Cheng
ccheng@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Uncertainty quantification
- Optimal design
- Epidemic modeling
Sung Hoon Chung
schung@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Healthcare operations management
- Supply chain management
- Mathematical optimization
- Computational game theory
Jia Deng
jiadeng@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Advanced manufacturing
- Micro/nanofabrication
- Additive manufacturing
Safa ElKefi
selkefi@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Health informatics and digital health
- Extended reality and artificial intelligence
- Cancer prevention and control
- Health systems
- Health disparities
- Smoking cessation
Melissa Zeynep Ertem
zeynep@binghamton.eduResearch 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
Professor of Empire Innovation
Research Interests
- Artificial intelligence
- Complex systems
- Self-organization
- Artificial life
- Philosophy of science
- Healthcare
- Transportation
- Education
Christopher Greene
cgreene@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Industry 4.0
- Collaborative robots
- Quality engineering
- Artificial intelligence
- Electronics packaging
- Manufacturing systems
Saad Hamasha
shamash1@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Electronics manufacturing
- Solder materials
- Reliability and quality engineering
Kimberly Harry
kharry@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Continuous healthcare improvement
- Healthcare systems engineering
- Performance measurement
- Quality engineering
Sara Kohtz
skohtz1@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Data science
- Physics-informed machine learning
- Reliability engineering
- Prognostics and health management
- Optimal system design
- Energy systems
Sadamori Kojaku
skojaku@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Complex systems
- Network science
- Computational social sciences
- Science of science
- Representation learning
Sarah Lam
Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Director
Research Interests
- Neural networks
- Evolutionary optimization
- Machine learning
- Simulation
- System modeling and optimization
Shuxia Susan Lu
slu@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Reliability
- Statistical process control
- Information technology
- Computer integrated manufacturing
Xiaotu Ma
xiaotuma@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Advanced energy storage materials
- Lithium-ion batteries recycling
- Sustainable development of energy storage
Jennifer Gillis Mattson
jmattson@binghamton.eduResearch 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 Nagarur
nnagarur@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Supply chain modeling
- Reliability of micro electronic components
- Quality control
Fuda Ning
fning@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Additive manufacturing
- Process innovation
- Process modeling and simulation
Mina Ostovari
mostovari@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Health informatics
- Network science
- Statistical/machine learning
- Mobile health/wearable technology
- Health systems modeling and optimization
Neha Patankar
npatankar@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Optimization and modeling
- Decision-making in complex systems
- Robust energy transition
- Power system planning
- Uncertainty quantification
Mark Poliks
SUNY Distinguished Professor; Professor of Empire Innovation; Undergraduate Director
Research Interests
- Electronic materials
- Electronics packaging
- Flexible electronics and roll-to-roll manufacturing
- Additive manufacturing
- Sensory systems
Srikanth Rangarajan
srangar@binghamton.eduResearch 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 Rocha
George J. Klir Professor of Systems Science
Research Interests
- Complex networks and systems
- Computational and systems biology
- Computational intelligence
- Biomedical informatics
Bahgat Sammakia
Founding Director of S3IP
Research Interests
- Heat transfer
- Electronics packaging
- Thermal management of data centers
- Heterogeneous integration research
Narmada Sambaturu
nsambaturu@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Multi-scale, data-driven modeling of infectious diseases
- Mathematical modeling
- Immune system
Daryl Santos
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
Research Interests
- Production scheduling and control
- Engineering optimization
- Quality Assurance
- Engineering management
- Electronics packaging
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
Chao (Amanda) Shi
cshi@binghamton.eduResearch 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
Research Interests
- Electronic packaging and electronics manufacturing
- Health care delivery
- Health systems
Seiichi Takamatsu
stakamatsu@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Tough hybrid electronics
- Ultrathin silicon semiconductors
- Electronic textiles
Stephanie Tulk Jesso
stulkjesso@binghamton.eduResearch 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
Research Interests
- Autonomous systems
- Energy systems
- Manufacturing systems
- Healthcare systems
- Operations research
- Data science
Yuxin Wang
yuxinw@binghamton.eduResearch 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
zimowang@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Statistical/machine learning
- Smart manufacturing
- Advanced manufacturing processes
- Material characterization
- Diagnosis and quality assurance
Daehan Won
dhwon@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Large scaled data analysis via mathematical programming and algorithms
Congyu Wu
congyu.wu@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Human-centric sensing
- Smart health
- Social signal processing
- Computational social science
Sangwon Yoon
yoons@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Decentralized decision modeling
- Realtime control in smart manufacturing
- Large-scale data mining optimization
Yingge Zhou
yzhou@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Tissue engineering
- Additive manufacturing
- Biomedical manufacturing
Adjunct Lecturers
Srikanth Poranki
Adjunct Lecturer (Director, Office of Strategy Management, UHS-CMH)
Michael Testani
Senior Director of Outreach and Engagement
Senior Director of Outreach and Engagement
Visiting Faculty and Research Scholars
Nelson Fernandez
nfernandezpa@binghamton.eduResearch 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
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
Darshil Rajeshkumar Patel
Visiting Scholar
Xuan Wang
Visiting Research Scientist
Faculty Emeritus
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Robert EmersonProfessor Emeritus |
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Don GauseProfessor Emeritus |
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George KlirDistinguished Professor Emeritus |
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Harold W. LewisAssociate Professor Emeritus |
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Howard PatteeProfessor Emeritus |
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Eileen WayAssociate Professor Emeritus |
Staff





