Faculty Directory

Core Faculty

Affiliated and Emeritus Faculty

  • John Coles.
    John Coles, PhD
    PhD, University at Buffalo
    Assistant Professor of Research
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Agent-base modeling, multi-criteria decision optimization, predictive modeling, data fusion; Application Areas: Healthcare, counter-terrorism, disaster relief

  • Colin Dury.
    Colin Drury, PhD
    PhD, University of Birmingham
    SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Human factors, industrial ergonomics, human error, aviation safety, quality control

  • Rollin J "Terry" Fairbanks.
    Rollin J (Terry) Fairbanks, MD
    MD, Medical College of Virginia
    Adjunct Associate Professor
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Medical human factors, patient safety, cognitive engineering

  • Qing He.
    Qing He, PhD
    PhD, University of Arizona
    Associate Professor of Research
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Analytics and Operations Research in Multi-modal Transportation and Logistics

  • Mark Karwan.
    Mark Karwan, PhD
    PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology

    305 Bell Hall

    Phone: (716) 645-2422

    mkarwan@buffalo.edu

    Praxair Professor in Operations Research (Emeritus)
    SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Mathematical programming, applied operations research, multiple-criteria decision making

  • Li Lin.
    Li Lin, PhD
    PhD, Arizona State

    308B Bell Hall

    Phone: (716) 645-4713

    indlin@buffalo.edu

    Professor
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Health systems, simulation, production systems

  • James.
    James Llinas, PhD
    PhD, University at Buffalo

    Phone: (716) 645-3624

    llinas@buffalo.edu

    Director Emeritus
    Collaborative Institute for Multisource Information Fusion
    Research Professor Emeritus
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Multi-source information fusion; statistics; knowledge-based systems.

  • Hector J. Ortiz-Pena.
    Hector J. Ortiz-Pena, PhD
    PhD, University at Buffalo
    Assistant Professor of Research
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Distributed cooperative control, autonomous vehicles, graph theory, information fusion and artificial intelligence

  • Portrait of Hongyue Sun.
    Hongyue Sun, PhD
    PhD, Virginia Tech

    319 Bell Hall

    Phone: (716) 645-4715

    hongyues@buffalo.edu

    Associate Professor of Research
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Data Science Enabled Decision Making in Advanced Manufacturing and Occupational Safety

  • Lei Sun.
    Lei Sun, PhD
    PhD, University at Buffalo
    Assistant Professor of Research
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Operations research, machine learning, supply chain, logistics, revenue management and business analytics

  • Warren H. Thomas.
    Warren H. Thomas, PhD
    PhD, Purdue University
    SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Production systems, simulation modeling, health systems

  • John Voit.
    John Voit
    Adjunct Instructor
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences