Robert E. Barnes - Adjunct Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D.,SUNY at Buffalo, 1984
Office: 415A Bonner Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2768 X 1111
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: rebarnes@eng.buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Engineering management, Health systems and industrial safety, Human factors.

Rajan Batta - Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, SEAS
Education: Ph.D., MIT, 1984
Office: 412 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2110
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: batta@eng.buffalo.edu
Home Page: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~batta

Research Interests: Operations research, Production systems.

Selected Publications:

• Clustering Sensors in Wireless Ad hoc Networks Operating in a Threat Environment. Forthcoming in Operations Research. With D.J. Patel and R. Nagi.

• Base Station Location and Channel Allocation in a Cellular Network with Emergency Coverage Requirements. Forthcoming in European Journal of Operational Research. With M.R. Akella, E.M. Delmelle, P.A. Rogerson, A. Blatt and G.Wilson.

• A New Class of Facility Location Models with Congestion. Naval Research Logistics, 51, (2004), 137-152. With Q. Wang and C.M. Rump.

• Finite-Size Facility Placement in the Presence of Barriers to Rectilinear Travel. Operations Research, 50(6), (2002), 1018-1031. With S. Savas and R. Nagi.

Wayne Bialas - Associate Professor (On Leave)
Education: Ph.D., Cornell, 1975
Office: 319 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2107
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: bialas@buffalo.edu
Home Page: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~bialas

Research Interests: Operations research, Multilevel optimization, Environmental systems, Statistics.

Selected Publications:

• A hybrid algorithm for the three-level linear resource control problem. Comput. Oper. Res. 13(4): 367-77, 1986. With Wen.

• Two-level linear programming. Manage. Sci. 30(8): 1004-20, 1984. With M. Karwan.

• Niagara River Ice Boom: Effects on Environment. ASCE Jour. Tech. Topics, 109(2):105-26, 1983. With Rumer, Quinn, Assel and Gaskil.

Ann M. Bisantz - Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Education: Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 1997
Office: 414 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2474
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: bisantz@acsu.buffalo.edu
Home Page: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~bisantz

Research Interests: Human-machine systems, Human decision making.

Selected Publications:

• Lessons from a Comparison of Work Domain models: Representational Choices and their Implications. Human Factors, 46, 4, (2004), 711 - 727. With C. M. Burns, and E. M. Roth.

• Measuring Judgment in Complex, Dynamic Environments: A Lens Model Analysis of Collision Detection Behavior. Human Factors, (2003). With A. R. Pritchett.

• The Effects of Integrated Cognitive Feedback and Task Conditions on Training in a Dental Diagnosis Task. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics. (2006)With G. Gattie.

• Preface to the special issue on Cognitive Engineering Insights for Human Performance and Decision Making. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics. (2006)

• A Comparison of the Effects of Graphical, Linguistic, and Numeric Representations of Uncertainty on Decision-making. Human Factors. (2005) With S. Marsiglio and J. Munch.

Ching M. (Carl) Chang - Adjunct Professor
Education: Ph.D., Technological University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany ; MBA, University at Buffalo
Office: 323 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2108
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: carlmchang@aol.com

Research Interests: Engineering management, Product development, Business development, Web-enabled engineering.

Selected Publications:

• Engineering Management: Challenges in the New Millennium, Prentice Hall, pp 544 (2005).

• Knowledge Based Diagnostic Advisory System and Method for an Air Separation Plant (U.S. Patent 5,557,549, September 17, 1996).

• Rotary Fluid Handling Machine Having Reduced Fluid (U.S. Patent 4,472,107, September 18, 1994). With R.H. Sentz.

• Problem in a Multistage Cryogenic Pump, Lubrication Engineering, pp. 916-922 (December 1987).

Ismael Regis de Farias, Jr. - Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 1995
Office: 403 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2475
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: defarias@buffalo.edu
Home Page: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~defarias

Research Interests: Integer programming, Discrete optimization, Large-scale computational optimization, Stochastic programming, Supply-chain.

Selected Publications:

• Models for Representing Piecewise Linear Cost Functions, Operations Research Letters 32, 44-48 (2004). With A.B. Keha, and G.L. Nemhauser.

• Lifted Inequalities for 0-1 Mixed-Integer Programming: Basic Theory and Algorithms, Mathematical Programming 98, 89-113 (2003). With J.P.P. Richard and G.L. Nemhauser

• A Polyhedral Study of the Cardinality Constrained Knapsack Problem Mathematical Programming 96, 439-467 (2003). With G.L. Nemhauser

• Facets of the Complementarity Knapsack Polytope Mathematics of Operations Research 27:210-226, 2002. With E. L. Johnson and G. L. Nemhauser.

Colin G. Drury - UB Distinguished Professor
Education: Ph.D., Birmingham, 1968
Office: 438 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2117
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: drury@buffalo.edu
Home Page: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~drury

Research Interests: Human factors, Industrial ergonomics, Human errors, Quality control, Aviation human factors.

Selected Publications:

• Using simulated investigations for accident investigation studies. Applied Ergonomics, 36, (2005), 1-12. With K. Woodcock, A. Smiley and J. Ma.

• Extension of the visual search models of inspection. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 6(6), (2005), 1-25. With A. Sarac and R. Batta.

• Inspecting, Checking and Auditing, particularly of Human Factors. In G. Salvendy (ed.), Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, 2005, J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., NJ.

David J. Feathers- Adjunct Research Assistant Professor

School of Public Health and Health Professions

Education: Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 2006
Office: 426 Bell Hall
E-mail: feathers@buffalo.edu

Research Interests: Human Factors/Ergonomics, Anthropometry, Biomechanics, Work Physiology, Rehabilitation Engineering

Selected Publications:

• Feathers, D. (2004) Digital Human Modeling and Measurement Considerations for Wheeled Mobility Device Users. (04DHM-86) In: 2004 Transactions Journal of Aerospace. Society of Automotive Engineers Publication, Warrendale, PA. ISBN: 0-7680-1550-2.

• Paquet, V., Feathers, D. (2004) Anthropometry. In: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (Vol. 1). Berkshire Publishing Group, Great Barrington, MA. ISBN: 0-9743091-2-5.

• Feathers, D., Paquet, V., and Drury C. (2004). Measurement consistency and three-dimensional electromechanical anthropometry. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 33(3); 181?190.

• Paquet, V., Feathers, D. (2004). An anthropometric study of manual and powered wheelchair users. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 33(3); 191 - 204.

Abhijit Gosavi - Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., South Florida, 1999
Office: 317 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2106
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: agosavi@buffalo.edu
Home Page: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~agosavi

Research Interests: Simulation-based Optimization, Production Systems, Airline Systems, and Engineering Metrology.

Selected Publications:

• Boundendness of iterates reinforcement learning, To appear in Systems and Control Letters. (2006)

• Airline Network Revenue Management Using Simulation-Based Optimization, To appear in OR Spectrum, With E. Ozkaya and A. Kahraman. (2006)

• A finite-differences derivative-descent approach for estimating form error in precision-manufactured parts, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, ASME (to appear) With S. Phatakwala

• A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Solving Semi-Markov Decision Problems under Long-Run Average Cost, European Journal of Operational Research, 155, (2004), 654-674.

• A Reinforcement Learning algorithm based on policy iteration: Numerical results with airline revenue management and convergence analysis. Machine Learning, 55(1), (2004), 5-29.

Mark H. Karwan - Professor
Education: Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 1976
Office: 412G Bonner Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2772 X 1101
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: mkarwan@buffalo.edu


Research Interests: Mathematical programming, Applied operations research, Multiple-criteria decision making.

Selected Publications:

• Production Planning Under Real Time Pricing of a Primary Input, to appear in Journal of Operations Research. With Keblis,M. and R. Sethuraman.

• Planning Dissimilar Routes for Military Units, To appear in Military Operations Research. With K. Thyagarajan, R. Batta, and R. J. Szczerba.

• Routing automated guided vehicles in the presence of interruptions. Int. J. Production Res. 37(3):653-81, 1999. With Narasimhan and Batta.

Harrison Kelly - Adjunct Instructor
Education: Ph.D., University at Buffalo, 2003
Office: 310 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: hkelly@curbell.com

Research Interests: Human decision making, Statistics, Quality control, Production Systems

Selected Publications:

• Sociotechnical Reasons for the De-evolution of Statistical Process Control, Quality Management Journal, 9, 8-22 (2002).  With C. G. Drury.
• Asymptotic-Power Problems in the Analysis of Supersaturated Designs, Statistics & Probability Letters, 47, 317-324 (2000). With J. O. Voelkel.

Bahattin Koc - Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 2001
Office: 401 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2112
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: bkoc@buffalo.edu
Home Page: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~bkoc

Research Interests: Rapid prototyping, Product realization, Computer aided design and computer aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM), Computational geometry, and computer graphics.

Selected Publications:

• Feature-Based Design and Freeform Modeling for Heterogeneous Objects. Computer Aided Design, Special Issue on Heterogeneous Object Modeling and Applications, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2005, pp. 287-305. With K. Samanta.

• Geometric Algorithms for Rapidly Reconfigurable Mold Manufacturing of Free-form Objects, Computer Aided Design, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2005, pp. 1-16. With A. Kelkar, R. Nagi.

• Adaptive Layer Approximation of Free-form Models Using Marching Point Surface Error Calculation for Rapid Prototyping. Rapid Prototyping Journal, Vol. 10, No. 5, 2004, pp. 270-280.

• Complex Assembly Variant Design in Agile Manufacturing. Part I: System Architecture and Assembly Modeling Methodology. IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing, Vol. 37, 2005, pp. 1-15. With A. Wang and R. Nagi.

Li Lin - Professor
Education: Ph.D., Arizona State, 1989
Office: 412 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2119
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: lilin@eng.buffalo.edu
Home Page: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~lilin

Research Interests: Manufacturing systems, Process planning and control, simulation.

Selected Publications:

•  Passenger Grouping Under Constant Threat Probablity in an Airport Security System, European Journal of Operational Research, 2006. with Larzar, B., Batta, R.

•  Hospital Capacity Planning for Emergency Management in Disaster Mitigation, Socio Economic Planning Sciences, 2006. With Yi, P., George, S.

•  Modeling Team Member Characteristics for the Organization of a Successful Multifunctional Team in Concurrent Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 51(2), 2004, 111-124. With Chen, S. J.

• Control-theoretic Models in Production and Inventory Systems: A Historic Review, International Journal of Production Research. 42(11), 2004, 2303-2322. With Ortega, M.J.

• Methods for processing and Prioritizing Customer Demands in Variant Product Design, IIE Transactions, 36(3), 2004, 203-219. With Chen, C. Y., Chen, L. C.

James Llinas - Adjunct Research Professor and Director, CMIF
Education: Ph.D.,SUNY at Buffalo, 1976
Office: 315 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2105
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: llinas@acsu.buffalo.edu

Research Interests: Multisource information fusion, Statistics, Knowledge-based systems.

Rakesh Nagi - Professor and Chair
Education: Ph.D., Maryland, 1991
Office: 309 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2103
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: nagi@buffalo.edu
Home Page: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~nagi

Research Interests: Facilities Design, Production Management, and Agile and Information-based Manufacturing.

Selected Publications:

• On Comparing Bills of Materials: A Similarity/Distance Measure for Unordered Trees, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, 2005, Vol. 35(2), pp. 249-260, with C. Romanowski.

• Clustering Sensors in Wireless ad hoc Networks Operating in a Threat Environment, to appear in Operations Research, 2005, Vol. 53(3), with D. Patel and R. Batta.

• Complex Assembly Variant Design in Agile Manufacturing. Part I: System Architecture and Assembly Modeling Methodology, IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing, 2005, Vol. 37(1), pp. 1-16, with A. Wang and B. Koc.

• Scheduling Injection Molding Operations with Multiple Resource Constraints and Sequence Dependent Setup Times and Costs, Computers & Operations Research, 2005, Vol. 32(11), pp. 2987-3005, with S. Ghosh Dastidar.

Victor Paquet - Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Education: Sc.D., Massachusettes Lowell, 1998
office: 411 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2118
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: vpaquet@eng.buffalo.edu
Home Page: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~vpaquet

Research Interests: Industrial ergonomics, Occupational safety and health, Musculoskeletal epidemiology.

Selected Publications:

• An evaluation of manual materials handling in highway construction work. Int. J. Ind. Ergonomics, special issue on MMH, in press. With Punnett and Buchholz.

• A validity study of fixed-interval observations for the assessment of body posture during construction work. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 42nd Annual Meeting, pp. 945-9. 1998. With Punnett and Buchholz.

• Reducing hazards during highway tunnel construction. In Ergonomics in Health Care and Rehabilitation, 187-203, ed. V. Rice. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998. With Buchholz.

Gwanseob Shin – Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 2005
Office: 415 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 x 2122
Fax: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: gshin@buffalo.edu
Home Page: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~gshin/

Research Interests: Physical Ergonomics, Occupational Biomechanics, Ergonomic Job Intervention

Selected Publications:

• Differences in Trunk Kinematics and Ground Reaction Forces between Older and Younger Adults during Lifting, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 36, 767-772, with M. Nance, and G. Mirka. (2006)
• Use of the Cabs Methodology to Assess Biomechanical Stress in Commercial Crab Fishermen, Applied Ergonomics 36, 61-70, with G. Mirka, K. Kucera, and D. Loomis. (2005)
• Influence of Knee Angle and Individual Flexibility on the Flexion-Relaxation Response of the Low Back Musculature, Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology 14, 485-494, with Y. Shu, Z. Li, Z. Jiang, and G. Mirka. (2004)
• The Effects of Sloped Standing Surface on the Hip, Knee, and Ankle Joint Kinetics and Kinematics during Manual Lifting Tasks, Ergonomics, 47, 646-659, with G. Mirka. (2004)

Moises Sudit - Adjunct Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D., Purdue
Office: 409 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2116
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: sudit@eng.buffalo.edu

Warren H. Thomas - Distinguished Teaching Professor
Education: Ph.D., Purdue, 1963
Office: 409 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2116
E-mail: whthomas@eng.buffalo.edu

Research Interests: Simulation, Production control.

Changxu (Sean) Wu – Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2007
Office: 414 Bell Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2357 X 2184
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: changxu@buffalo.edu
Home Page: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~changxu/

Research Interests: Computational modeling and experimental studies in cognitive ergonomics and neuroergonomics

Selected Publications:

• Wu, C., and Liu, Y. (forthcoming) Queuing Network Modeling of
  Transcription Typing, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  (TOCHI)
  
• Wu, C., Tsimhoni, O., and Liu, Y. (forthcoming)  Development
  of an Adaptive Workload Management System using Queueing Network-Model
  of Human Processor, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation
  Systems
  
• Wu, C., Liu, Y. and Walsh, C.  forthcoming) Queuing Network
  Modeling of a Real-time Psychophysiological Index of Mental
  Workload--P300 in Event-Related Potential (ERP), IEEE Transactions on
  Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part A)
• Queuing Network Modeling of Driver Workload and Performance, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (In Press)
• A New Software Tool for Modeling Human Performance and Mental Workload, The Quarterly of Human Factors Applications: Ergonomics in Design (2007), 15 (2), 8-14
• Human Performance Modeling in Temporary Segmentation Chinese Character Handwriting Recognizers, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (2003), 58, 483-508
• Human Performance Modeling in Spatial Segmentation Chinese Handwriting Recognizer, Acta Psychologica Sinica (2003), 35 (6), 767-776

Stanley Zionts - Adjunct Professor
Distinguished Professor, Alumni Professor of Decision Support Systems
The State University of New York
School of Management
Phone: (716) 645-3260
FAX: (716) 645-6117
E-mail: sziontz@buffalo.edu
Homepage:http://www.mgt.buffalo.edu/CFDOCS/Forms/faculty/bios/faculty.cfm?fac=szionts

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