Energy & Sustainability

Boilermakers are known for their persistence. Few "societal grand challenges" present as urgent and as complex as the need to look at how we steward the Earth and build sustainable systems. A sampling of our work includes new ways of delivering energy, distributed control systems for grid management as energy sources diversify, optimizing resource use, guiding policy and implementation of conservation practices non an equitable way, and finding new ways of making more sustainable practices and items.

If you have a passion for sustainability and caring for Earth in a time of change, Industrial Engineering will give you a multitude of tools to make a real difference.

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Team Leaders

David Johnson

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 (climate change adaptation & environmental policy)

Flood risk modeling

Sustainable agriculture

Environmental risk communication and decision support tools

Multi-criteria tradeoff analysis

Andrew Liu

Andrew Liu

Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Interactions of optimization

Game theory and industrial organization (applications to model & analyze energy markets and environmental policy)

Sivaranjani Seetharaman

Sivaranjani Seetharaman

Assistant Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Control systems

Machine learning

Networks

Energy

Transportation

Cyber-physical systems

Team Members

Stephan Biller

Stephan Biller

Harold T. Amrine Distinguished Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering & Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business Director of Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises
Research Interests

Leading eXcellence in Manufacturing and Operations (XMO) dedicated to sustainable, digital and physical

Sustainable and flexible supply chains

Sustainable and flexible agriculture in light of climate change

Hua Cai

Hua Cai

Thomas and Jane Schmidt Rising Star Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering - Joint Appointment with School of Sustainability Engineering & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests

Assessing environmental impacts of smart transportation & shared mobility

Data-driven modeling to inform infrastructure development for sustainability

Decision making for sustainable consumption

AI for sustainable urban development

Zaiwei Chen

Zaiwei Chen

Assistant Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Reinforcement Learning

Learning in Games

Applied Probability

Optimization

Control

Behzad Esmaeili

Behzad Esmaeili

Dr. Rohan & Mrs. Merle Phillips Rising Star Associate Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering Joint Appointment with Civil Engineering
Research Interests

Construction safety

Risk management

Decision making

Ana María Estrada Gomez

Ana María Estrada Gomez

Assistant Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Resilient energy systems under extreme weather events

Monitoring energy grids under resource constraints

Inference and algorithms on networks

Syed Helmi

Syed Helmi

Professor Of Engineering Practice, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering; Joint appointment with the School of Engineering Education
Research Interests

Operations and supply chain strategy

Smart manufacturing and process optimization

Digital twin & predictive simulation (discrete events & system dynamics)

Engineering learning innovation & pedagogy

Susan Hunter

Susan Hunter

Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Stochastic optimization

Multi-objective optimization under uncertainty

Simulation modeling and analysis

Applied probability and statistics

Young-Jun Son

Young-Jun Son

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

Simulation-based operations scheduling for energy reduction & productivity enhancement

Integrated GIS, optimization & simulation tools for optimal solar panel sizing & placement

Integration of high-penetration photovoltaics & PHEVs using energy storage & demand response

Wenzhuo Wu

Wenzhuo Wu

Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Environmental energy harvesting (mechanical, wind, rain, ocean wave, solar, etc.)

Data-driven scalable nanomanufacturing for energy harvesting

Nanotechnology for catalysis in hydrogen production

Self-powered sensor technology for environmental sensing

Nanotechnology for clean water production

Miaolan Xie

Miaolan Xie

Assistant Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Stochastic optimization

Data science

Nonlinear optimization

Machine learning

Algorithms

Applications in healthcare

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