Faculty Directory
SUNY Distinguished Professor; SEAS Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Diversity
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Operations Research, Production Systems
Dean of Undergraduate Education; Professor
PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology - Cognitive Engineering; Human Factors in Health Care; Human Decision-making
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Virginia - Human behavior and human performance modeling, erroneous human behavior, formal methods, system safety
Associate Professor of Teaching; Director of Engineering Management Program
PhD, University at Buffalo - Health information technology, health systems, process modeling and improvement, and production systems
Associate Professor
PhD, Virginia Tech - Physical Ergonomics, Biomechanics of Obesity, Aging and Human Work Capacity, Occupational Safety and Health
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Toronto-Human-Machine Interactions, Cognitive Engineering, Driver Behavior and Safety, Human Factors in Healthcare
Assistant Professor of Teaching
PhD, Wayne State University- Product development, Product life-cycle management, Multi-criteria decision making.
Assistant Professor
PhD, UC Irvine - Transportation Modeling, Applied Operations Research
Praxair Professor of Operations Research and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology - Mathematical programming, Applied operations research, Multiple-criteria decision making
Associate Professor of Practice; Director of Undergraduate Studies
PhD, University at Buffalo - Human decision-making, statistics, quality control, production systems, service learning
Assistant Professor of Teaching
PhD, The University of Arizona - Data-driven simulation-based stochastic modeling for social networks, disaster management, smart cities, and humanitarian logistics
Associate Professor of Teaching
PhD, Texas Tech University; DSc, Monterrey Tech; -Lean Six Sigma, Project Management, Product Development, Stochastic Modeling, Engineering Education, Healthcare Systems.
Assistant Professor
PhD, Purdue University-Operations research and analytics, Energy resilience and sustainability, Climate change impact assessment, Risk analysis and uncertainty modeling, Economic impact assessment, Disaster risk reduction, Growth econometrics and disaster impacts, Risk-informed decision analysis
Assistant Professor
PhD, University at Buffalo - Vehicle routing & logistics, unmanned/autonomous vehicles, applied operations research
Associate Professor; Interim Director of Graduate Studies
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - Stochastic optimization, social network modeling, statistical inference
Professor and Chair
ScD University of Massachusetts, Lowell - Industrial Ergonomics, Musculoskeletal Epidemiology, Occupational Safety and Health
Professor and Associate Vice President for Research
PhD, Purdue - Information Fusion, Military Operations Research
Assistant Professor
PhD, Virginia Tech- Advanced Manufacturing Data Analytics, Quality Control, Energy Systems Data Fusion
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Florida - Mathematical Programming, Network Optimization, Interdiction, Logistics Optimization
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Southern California - Additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping
Morton C. Frank Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Operations research, game theory, hazard response
Affiliated and Emeritus Faculty
John Coles
Assistant Professor of Research
PhD, University at Buffalo - Methodology: Agent-base modeling, multi-criteria decision optimization, predictive modeling, data fusion; Application Areas: Healthcare, counter-terrorism, disaster relief
Email: jbcoles@buffalo.edu
Colin Drury
SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus
PhD, University of Birmingham - Human factors, industrial ergonomics, human error, aviation safety, quality control
Email: drury@buffalo.edu
Adjunct Associate Professor
MD, Medical College of Virginia - Medical human factors, patient safety, cognitive engineering
Email: Terry.Fairbanks@medstar.net
Qing He
Associate Professor of Research
PhD, University of Arizona - Analytics and Operations Research in Multi-modal Transportation and Logistics
Email: qinghe@buffalo.edu
James Llinas
Professor Emeritus of Research
PhD, University at Buffalo - Multi-source information fusion, statistics, knowledge-based systems
Phone: (716) 645-3624
Email: llinas@buffalo.edu
Hector J. Ortiz- Pena
Assistant Professor of Research
PhD, University at Buffalo -Distributed cooperative control, autonomous vehicles, graph theory, information fusion and artificial intelligence
Email: hectoror@buffalo.edu
Lei Sun
Assistant Professor of Research
PhD, University at Buffalo - Operations research, machine learning, supply chain, logistics, revenue management and business analytics
Email: leisun@buffalo.edu
Warren H. Thomas
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
PhD Purdue University Production systems, simulation modeling, health systems
Email: whthomas@buffalo.edu
