DECISION MAKING, COGNITION & HUMAN PERFORMANCE

Decision Making, Cognition & Human Performance in IE

Researchers are only beginning to better understand the human brain. Reconciling normative, behavioral and neurophysiological bases of human decision making and performance will allow us to design a world that simply works better.

Keeping the user in mind allows us to take a multidisciplinary approach as we consult and consider policy, environment, user interface, physiology and pathology, and cultures to design more effective socio-technical systems.

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Barrett Caldwell

Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering;
Joint Appointment in Aeronautics & Astronautics
Research Interests

Human factors engineering

Distributed human supervisory control

Team coordination and performance using IT

Joaquín Goñi Cortes

Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering;
Joint Appointment with Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests

Complex Systems

Graph Theory and Network Science

Information Theory

Neuroimaging and Brain Connectomics

Bradley Duerstock

Professor of Practice, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering;
Joint Appointment with Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests

Neurotrauma

Assistive Technology/Rehabilitation Engineering

Vincent Duffy

Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering;
Joint Appointment with Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Research Interests

Digital human modeling

Safety engineering

Work methods and measurement

Ergonomics

Behzad Esmaeili

Associate Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering;
Joint Appointment with Civil Engineering
Research Interests

Construction safety

Risk management

Decision making

Zachary Hass

Assistant Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering;
Joint Appointment with School of Nursing
Research Interests

Health Outcomes

Program Evaluation in Health Services research for Older Adults

Syed Ahmad Helmi

Assistant Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering;
Joint Appointment with School of Engineering Education
Research Interests

Operations and Supply Chain Strategy

Smart Manufacturing and Process Optimization

Digital Twin and Predictive Simulation (Discrete Events and System Dynamics

Engineering Learning Innovation and Pedagogy

Liwei Jiang

Joining the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering in Fall of 2025
Research Interests

Nonlinear Optimization

Nonsmooth Optimization

Stochastic Optimization

Data Science and Learning

David Johnson

Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Associate Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering;
Joint Appointment with Political Science
Research Interests

Decision-making under uncertainty, applied to climate change adaptation and environmental policy

Flood risk modeling

Sustainable agriculture

Environmental risk communication and decision support tools

Multi-criteria tradeoff analysis

Mark Lehto

Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Human Factors

Safety engineering

Hazard Communication and Decision Support Systems

Brandon Pitts

Elliott Sigal Rising Star Associate Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering;
Faculty Associate, Center on Aging and the Life Course
Research Interests

Cognitive ergonomics

Human-automation interaction

Multimodal/multisensory information processing

Adaptive displays

Aging and technology

April Savoy

Assistant Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Health information technology

Cognitive systems engineering

Situation awareness

Usability

Health information exchange

Clinical decision-making

Sivaranjani Seetharaman

Assistant Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Control systems

Machine learning

Networks

Energy

Transportation

Cyber-physical systems

J Shanthikumar

Assistant Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Production system modeling and analysis

Queueing theory and applications

Reliability and probability theory

Scheduling and sequencing

Simulation methodology

Stochastic processes and modeling

Yu She

Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Robotics

Mechanism Design

Tactile Perception

Young-Jun Son

James J. Solberg Head;
Ransburg Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Real-time Control of Smart Factory and Extended Enterprises via Digital-Twin

Modeling Human Decision-Making (Extended Belief-Desire-Intention Model)

Multi-paradigm Simulations (agent, discrete event, system dynamics, virtual reality)

Modeling and Control of Emerging Applications (Emergency Evacuation, Healthcare, UAV/UGV Coordination, Social Network)

Juan Wachs

James H. and Barbara H. Greene Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Machine and computer vision

Robotics

Tele-operations

Human Computer Interaction

Assistive technologies and Health support systems

Miaolan Xie

Joining the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering in Fall of 2025
Research Interests

Stochastic Optimization

Data Science

Nonlinear Optimization

Machine Learning

Algorithms

Applications in Healthcare

Yuehwern Yih

Tompkins Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering;
Director of Smart Systems and Operations Laboratory;
Director of LASER PULSE Consortium
Research Interests

Design, monitor, and control of complex systems

Behavior-based dynamic control

Process/system model, analysis, and improvement

Machine learning and artificial intelligence

Healthcare system re-engineering

Denny Yu

Associate Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering;
Courtesy appointment in School of Health Sciences
Research Interests

Quantifying intraoperative workload

Developing patient factors based workload models

Medical device design and usability testing

Integrating wearable sensor devices to develop intelligent health systems

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