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Faculty Research Areas September 2008

Faculty Department Title Areas of Research

Adams, David S. BBT Professor Design of neurotrophic factors for treating Alzheimer's disease and stroke,

neurodegeneration, drug delivery to the brain across the blood brain barrier

Addison, Bland HUA Associate Professor European intellectual and cultural history, global history and comparative civilizations

Agu, Emmanuel O. CS Associate Professor Computer graphics, mobile graphics, mobile computing, wireless and sensor networks

Albano, Leonard D. CEE Associate Professor Structural engineering; structural analysis and design for fire conditions; performance-

based design of building structures; integration of design and construction; and structural

engineering education

Alvarez, Inmaculada HUA Visiting Assistant

Professor

Transatlantic studies (Spain, Latin America and Latino culture in US); Hispanic film

studies; critical analysis; gender studies and migration studies

Apelian, Diran MPI Professor Metal processing, solidification processing, molten metal processing, aluminum and

magnesium metals, particulate processing and powder metallurgy, thermal processing and

heat treatment, non-destructive evaluation, management issues in manufacturing and metal

processing industries

Aravind, Padmanabhan K. PH Professor Quantum mechanics and quantum information theory

Arguello, Jose M. CBC Professor Mechanism of ion transport by P-type ATPases, membrane proteins structural

biology, heavy metal homeostasis in plants, mechanisms of thermostability in membrane

proteins

Atahan, Ali O. CEE Visiting Assistant

Professor

Impact mechanics, crashworthiness analysis of transportation safety hardware, finite

element simulations, testing and evaluation of energy absorbing materials

Ault, Holly K. ME Associate Professor Geometric modeling, mechanical design, CAD, kinematics, biomechanics and rehabilitation

engineering

Ayturk, M. Engin CHE Research Assistant

Professor

Synthesis and characterization of inorganic Pd and Pd/Alloy membranes for hydrogen

production, separation and purification processes; Catalysis and reaction kinetics;

Modeling of catalytic membrane reactors for natural gas steam reforming and water-gas

shift applications; Development of process analysis frameworks and intensification

strategies.

Bagshaw, Joseph C. BBT Professor Recombinant DNA mechanisms and technology, regulation of gene expression

Baller, William A. HUA Administrator History

Research

Family's impact on American Revolutionary mobilization, kinship among privateersmen

and pirates and military mobilization and the family in warfare

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Banks, McRae C. MGT Professor Entrepreneurial teams, rural entrepreneurship, economic development and

entrepreneurship, strategic planning in small entrepreneurial companies, entrepreneurship

in technological organizations, re-engineering business education

Bar-On, Isa ME Professor Clean energy systems, materials system analysis, materials for alternative energy systems,

cost-modeling, mechanical properties, fracture of ceramics, failure analysis

Bergendahl, John A. CEE Associate Professor Industrial and domestic wastewater treatment, water treatment, particulate processes in the

environment and engineered systems, sorption and chemical oxidation of contaminants

Bianchi, Frederick W. HUA Professor Music technology, virtual orchestra research, interactive media applications

Billiar, Kristen BME Associate Professor Biomechanics of soft tissues and biomaterials, connective tissue mechanics,

mechanobiology, skin, heart valves, lung, wound healing, tissue growth and development,

functional tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Blais, Marcel Y. MA Assistant Professor,

Coordinator of

Professional Master of

Science Programs

Mathematical finance, liquidity, estimation of asset price processes in liquid and illiquid

markets

Blandino, John J. ME Associate Professor Fluid mechanics and heat transfer in microdevices, multiphase flows, electric and chemical

propulsion, mission analysis, plasma diagnostics

Bogdanov, Gene BEI Research Assistant

Professor

Analog and digital design, computer architecture, RF circuits, electromagnetic field

simulation, magnetic resonance imaging, and nondestructive evaluation

Brattin, Joel J. HUA Professor Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, textual scholarship (especially textual editing and

manuscript work), American guitarist and composer Jimi Hendrix

Brisson, Ulrike HUA Visiting Assistant

Professor/Administrator

of German Studies

Travel writing, colonialism and postcolonialism, nineteenth-century literature, German

language acquisition

Brown, Christopher A. ME Professor Surface metrology, axiomatic design, fractal analysis, mechanics of skiing, machining,

grinding

Brown, David C. CS Professor AI in design, computational design creativity, assumptions in design, design rational,

functional reasoning, intelligent interfaces

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Brown, Donald R. ECE Associate Professor Digital communications, synchronization, wireless channels, cooperative networks, digital

signal processing, speech processing, interference mitigation, self organization of networks,

information theory, game theory

Bullock, Steven C. HUA Professor Freemasonry and fraternal societies, history of American freemasonry (Masons,

Freemasons), early American history, colonial America, the American Revolution, the early

republic, politeness, gentility, the history of manners

Burgos, Corrine Grace B. MA Visiting Assistant

Professor

Bayesian inference, analysis of survey data, poverty estimation

Burnham, Nancy A. PH Associate Professor Mechanical properties of nanostructures, instrumentation and metrology for nanomechanics

Camesano, Terri A. CHE Associate Professor Bacterial adhesion and interaction forces, biofilms and microbial infections, role of

bacterial adhesion in urinary tract infections, effects of cranberry compounds on E.coli,

biomedical devices, polysaccharides in drug development and drug delivery, atomic force

microscopy

Christopher, Peter R. MA Professor Graph theory, group theory, algebraic graph theory, combinatorics, linear algebra

Clancy, Edward A. ECE Associate Professor Biomedical signal processing for applications including prosthetic control,

electromyography, analysis of gait, ergonomics and neurology, biomedical instrumentation

Clark, Constance HUA Assistant Professor History of science, especially history of biology, history of evolutionary theory, history of

scientific illustration, and science and culture

Clark, William M. CHE Associate Professor Separation processes, bioseparations, curriculum reform, finite element modeling, two-

phase electrophoresis, chromatography

Claypool, Mark L. CS Associate Professor Multimedia networking, congestion control, network games, information filtering

Connors, Robert E. CBC Professor Physical chemistry, electronic spectroscopy and photophysics, photochemistry,

photocatalysis, molecular modeling

Crusberg, Theodore C. BBT Associate Professor Heavy metal bioremediation of industrial wastewaters using biopolymers coupled to

polymer enhanced diafiltration (PEDF) technology

Cyganski, David ECE Professor Radar and optical imaging, machine vision, sensor fusion, precision location systems,

network protocol optimization and quality of service in satellite and other extreme networks

Dai, Shibin MA Visiting Assistant

Professor

Nonlinear partial differential equations and numerical analysis, pattern formation and

domain coarsening in phase transitions and materials science

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Danneels, Erwin MGT Associate Professor Growth and renewal of corporations through product innovation, the characteristics of

corporations with innovative new products, and the effects of innovative products on firm

performance

Datta, Ravindra CHE Professor Catalysis and reaction engineering as applied to fuel cells and reforming

Davis, Paul W. MA Professor Unit commitment, optimal power flow, economic dispatch, state estimation, other control

and measurement problems for electric power networks; interdisciplinary, project-based

learning on and off campus; active learning and modeling in elementary mathematics

courses

Delorey, John F. HUA Instructor of Music Music technology, virtual choir research, paperless display systems, notation (digital and

historic), music history

Dembsey, Nicholas A. FPE Associate Professor Fire properties of materials via bench-top scale experimentation, compartment fire

dynamics via residential scale experimentation, evaluation, development and validation of

compartment fire models, performance fire codes, engineering design tools, engineering

forensic tools

Demetriou, Michael A. ME Associate Professor Control of intelligent systems, control of fluid-structure interaction systems, fault detection

and accommodation of dynamical systems, acoustic and vibration control, smart materials

and structures, sensor and actuator networks in distributed processes, control of mechanical

systems, mobile robot deployment in intrusion and biochemical source detection

Demetry, Chrysanthe ME Associate Professor Scholarship of teaching and learning, influence of educational technologies on student

learning, materials science and engineering education, effects of engineering outreach

programs on girls, writing across the curriculum, faculty development

Dempsey, James HUA Admin Literary Studies;

Adjunct

Modernizations of Geoffrey Chaucer's court poetry, the life of Scofield Thayer (editor of

the magazine The Dial in the 1920's)

DiBiasio, David CHE Associate Professor Educational research involving engineering education (including international education),

teaching and learning, and assessment

Dick, Frank A. PH Adjunct Assistant

Professor

Modeling fundamental particles as curved space-times; Inelastic atom-photon interactions

Dimentberg, Mikhail F. ME Professor Applied mechanics, random vibrations and reliability, non-linear dynamics, rotordynamics,

mechanical signature analysis, stochastic mechanics, population dynamics

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Dittami, James P. CBC Professor Organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, natural product synthesis, new synthetic methods,

alkaloid synthesis, organic photochemistry

Dixon, Anthony G. CHE Professor Computational fluid dynamics, reaction engineering, fixed bed reactors, membrane

reactors, heat transfer, mathematical modeling

Djamasbi, Soussan MGT Assistant Professor Decision making, decision support systems, decision making under information overload,

affect and decision making, affect and technology acceptance

Dollenmayer, David B. HUA Professor Literary translation from German to English, German as a second language pedagogy

Dominko, Tanja BBT Associate Professor Stem cell biology, wound healing and tissue regeneration

Dougherty, Daniel J. CS Professor Logic in computer science, with an emphasis on computer security, automated deduction,

and symbolic computation

Doyle, James K. SSPS Associate Professor Judgment and decision making, risk perception, psychological foundations of system

dynamics, mental models of complex systems, survey research, public understanding of

human cognition

Duckworth, R. James ECE Associate Professor Embedded computer systems, logic synthesis using hardware description languages,

industrial and medical wireless sensors, indoor tracking and location, real-time distributed

computer systems

Duffy, Joseph BBT Associate Professor Signal transduction in development and disease, cancer biology, lipid metabolism and

programmed cell death, neuronal development, evolution of developmental mechanisms

Eddy, Bethel HUA Assistant Professor American religious and ethical thought, religion and science, bioethics, critical methods in

the study of religion, religion and culture, pragmatism, naturalism, and American religious

thought: James, Addams, Santayana, K. Burke, Geertz, Rorty, West; environmental ethics,

gender and race issues in religion; thematic interest in sacrifice and piety, theology’s

encounter with Social Darwinism

El-Korchi, Tahar CEE Professor Materials and structures, materials testing and evaluation, high strength-high performance

concrete, structural composites, NDT, pavement evaluation and testing

Elmes, Michael B. MGT Professor Workplace resistance; power, control, and conflict in new technology implementation;

critical and cross-cultural perspectives on biotechnology; "place" in organization theory;

intergroup relations and diversity; narrative theory in organizational change and strategy;

critical perspectives on spirituality in the workplace; organizational learning

Emanuel, Alexander E. ECE Professor Power system economics, power electronics, power quality

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Ephraim, Michelle HUA Associate Professor Shakespeare, Jewish women in sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature,

Renaissance medical writings about pregnancy and childbirth, dramatic adaptations of

biblical narratives, gender studies and Jewish studies across different time periods

Farbrook, Joseph HUA Assistant Professor Digital art, virtual installation art, 3D video game engines, audio sculpture, Internet art,

hypertext, and Machinima. International collaborations, audio/video remixes and VJ

culture, hacktivism, DVD authoring, CAVE, DOME, and 3D interactive animation.

Farr, William W. MA Associate Professor Ordinary and partial differential equations, dynamical systems, local bifurcation theory

with symmetry and its application to problems involving chemical reactions or fluid

mechanics (or a combination of both)

Fehribach, Joseph D. MA Associate Professor Partial differential equations and scientific computing, free and moving boundary problems

(crystal growth), nonequilibrium thermodynamics and averaging (fuel cell electrodes),

reaction network modeling

Finkel, David CS Professor Computer system performance evaluation, queuing theory, computer simulation, and

measurement to determine or predict the performance of computer systems, performance of

operating systems, computer networks, and distributed computer systems

Fischer, Gregory S. ME Assistant Professor Robotic system engineering, medical robotics, MRI-compatible mechatronics, image-

guided surgery

Fishtik, Ilie CHE Research Associate

Professor

Chemical thermodynamics, kinetics and heterogeneous catalysis, stoichiometric uniqueness

of multiple chemical reaction systems in chemical thermodynamics, microkinetic modeling

in heterogeneous catalysis, reaction route graphs, reduction and simplification of complex

kinetic mechanisms, accurate thermochemistry from group additivity and Ab initio

methods, stability of chemical species

Fisler, Kathryn CS Associate Professor Formal analysis and modeling of access-control and security policies, formal verification of

hardware and software systems, diagrammatic specification languages for system properties

Fofana, Mustapha S. ME Associate Professor Biomanufacturing, manufacturing dynamics and control, nonlinear machine-tool chatter,

delay differential equations, stochastic time delay dynamics

Foreng, Jeffrey L. HUA Adjunct Associate

Professor

History of science and technology - Middle Ages and Renaissance; Arms and armor;

Cultural history of European martial arts; History of games and sports

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Furlong-Vazquez, Cosme ME Assistant Professor MEMS and MOEMS, nanotechnology, mechatronics, laser applications, digital holography,

computer modeling of dynamic systems

Garcia, Rafael PH Assistant Professor Condensed matter experiment, wetting, Casimir forces, properties of liquids and liquid

crystals on solid surfaces

Gatsonis, Nikolaos A. ME Professor Development of numerical simulation methods and modeling of nonequilibrium, multi-

component, multi-scale, gaseous and plasma flows, continuum/atomistic simulation of

macro-, micro- and nano-scale fluid transport processes, development of plasma diagnostics

and microfluidic devices, spacecraft propulsion and micro-propulsion,

spacecraft/environment interactions

Gaudette, Glenn BME Assistant Professor Myocardial regeneration, regenerative medicine, biomechanics, adult stem cells, cardiac

mechanics

Gennert, Michael A. CS Associate Professor Medical imaging, computer vision, robotics, spatio-temporal databases, programming

languages, computational vision, including stereo, motion, fractal image modeling, image

and multimedia databases, temporal data modeling, category theory, and programming

language abstraction

Gerstenfeld, Arthur MGT Professor Management of innovation, operations management, productivity, competitiveness,

Namibia Project Center, Wall Street Project Center

Gibson III, Daniel G. BBT Assistant Professor Horseshoe crab development and neurobiology, neuromuscular transmitters, nerve growth

factors, growth hormones, limb regeneration

Gobert, Janice SSPS Associate Professor Learning sciences, artificial intelligence in education, visualizations

Golding, Dominic IGSD Adjunct Assistant

Professor

Social aspects of environmental risk, including public perceptions or risk and risk

communication

Gottlieb, Roger S. HUA Professor Social and political philosophy, religion and society, environmental ethics, religious

environmentalism, the Holocaust, disability, and contemporary spirituality

Hakim, Hossein ECE Associate Professor Digital signal processing

Hanlan, James P. HUA Professor American labor history, social history, quantitative methods, quantitative history, urban

history, history of Worcester, New England history, New Hampshire history

Hansen, Peter H. HUA Associate Professor Cultural dimensions of empire and colonialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

and the history of mountaineering and modernity

Hart, Frederick L. CEE Professor Water quality changes in distribution systems, tracer analysis of reactors, chlorine residuals

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Heffernan, Neil CS Associate Professor Intelligent tutoring systems, artificial intelligence, learning sciences, cognitive science of

mathematics education, data mining, longitudinal data analysis

Heilman, Destin CBC MQP Coordinator and

Senior Instructor

Oncolytic DNA viruses and proteins, oncotropic DNA tumor viruses, cancer biology,

animal virus pathology, agricultural vaccines, viral protein biochemistry, cancer biology

and society, societal impact of cancer vaccines

Heineman, George T. CS Associate Professor Component-based software engineering, compositional reasoning, feature-based design,

science of design, design of algorithms

Heinricher, Arthur C. MA Professor Industrial mathematics, applied probability, mathematical finance, stochastic processes and

optimization

Henry, Michael F. ME Research Professor Physical and mechanical metallurgy of structural aerospace materials, high temperature

materials, Ni-base superalloys, fatigue lifing, mechanistic fatigue studies, time dependent

Higgins, Huong N. MGT Associate Professor Financial accounting, focusing on issues at the intersection of accounting, finance, and

corporate governance, and with implications for investment decisions

Higgins, Lorraine D. HUA Director of Writing

Across the Curriculumn

Intercultural communication, argument in the public sphere, professional discourse

practices, the pedagogy of writing, community literacy

Hoffman, Allen H. ME Professor Biomechanics, rehabilitation engineering, design of assistive devices, prostheses and

orthoses, properties of biological tissues, biofluids, biomaterials and biomedical

engineering

Hofri, Micha CS Professor Analysis of algorithms, usually under probabilistic assumptions, seeing how statistics and

statistical inference can be used in the design and evaluation of algorithms, the performance

evaluation of computer systems, policies of operating systems - as in scheduling and

managing secondary storage (disk arrays), synchronization algorithms and protocols

Hou, Zhikun ME Professor Vibration and control, structural dynamics, structural health monitoring, smart materials

and adaptive structures, stochastic mechanics, solid mechanics, finite elements, earthquake

engineering

Huang, Xinming ECE Assistant Professor Reconfigurable computing, high performance computing, networked embedded systems,

ubiquitous computing, sensor networks, wireless communications, VLSI integrated circuits,

computer architecture

Humi, Mayer MA Professor Mathematical physics, celestial mechanics, atmospheric modeling and turbulence,

differential equations and scientific computations

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Hussein, Islam I. ME Assistant Professor Cooperative control of intelligent multiple vehicle sensor network systems, geometric

mechanics, and optimal control theory

Iannacchione, Germano S. PH Associate Professor Soft condensed matter physics/complex fluids, biophysics, liquid-crystals, calorimetry,

order-disorder and self-assembly phenomena

Jarvis, Susan ECE Adjunct Instructor Passive acoustic detection, localization and classification of marine mammals, real-time

signal processing and classification, high data rate underwater acoustic communications

Jayachandran, Paramasivam CEE Associate Professor Design and behavior of tall buildings, wind and earthquake engineering, structural design

agents, structural dynamics, optimum design of aircrafts, automobiles and offshore oil

platforms, nonlinear and inelastic response of structures, design of steel, reinforced and pre-Jiusto, J. Scott IGSD Assistant Professor Energy and climate change policy; the pursuit of sustainability at local, regional and

national scales; electrical system restructuring; sustainable development in Africa;

experiential learning and student development; research methods, scientific uncertainty,

and the politics of sustainability

Johnson, Sharon MGT Associate Professor Lean process design, enterprise decision-making, process analysis and modeling, improving

health care delivery processes

Kaminski, George A. CBC Associate Professor Computational physical, biophysical and physical organic chemistry

Kashuri, Hektor PH Adjunct Assistant

Professor

Noninvasive study of electrical properties of human muscles

Kasouf, Chickery J. MGT Associate Professor Product management, marketing strategy in fragmented industries, entrepreneurship,

strategic alliances

Kazantzis, Nikolaos K. CHE Associate Professor Analysis, sustainable design and control of chemical processes, environmental and energy

systems, process safety and chemical risk analysis, process performance monitoring and

industrial risks, adsorption studies in environmental systems, environmental technologies

and policy, regulation and management of chemicals, regulatory uses of molecular

modeling techniques

Keil, Thomas H. PH Professor Solid state physics, mathematical physics, fluid mechanics

Kim, Ryung S. MA Assistant Professor Bioinformatics, large-scale genomics, microarrays, cis-regulatory motifs; Intelligent tutorial

and assessment for K12 and college math and science education

Kinicki, Robert CS Professor Computer network performance, multimedia streaming, wireless networks, sensor

networks, congestion control

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Klein, Andrew ECE Assistant Professor Signal processing for wireless communication systems, cooperative communication in

wireless networks, adaptive parameter estimation and channel equalization, digital

compensation of analog/RF non-idealities, ultra-wideband communications, free-space

optical communications

Koehler, Stephan A. PH Assistant Professor Soft materials, complex fluids and granular flows

Koleci, Carolann PH Director of Physics

Education

Physics education, problem solving and decision making, curriculum development and

assessment, electromagnetism resources, visualizations

Krueger, Robert IGSD Assistant Professor Sustainable urban development, environmental justice and social theories of the

environment, local/regional economic development, urban politics, economic theory

Labonte, Robert C. ECE Professor of Practice Special-purpose surveillance and control systems, artificial-intelligence based planning,

diagnosis, and the exploitation of model-based reasoning in support of performance

monitoring and adaptation for advanced avionics systems, techniques for increasing the

efficiency and reliability of spacecraft, power generation systems, spacecraft attitude

control, and effective communication with spacecraft in the presence of low-signal, high-

noise environments

Lados, Diana ME - iMdc Assistant Professor Design and optimization of structural materials for fatigue, fatigue crack growth, and

fracture resistance including thermo-mechanical and corrosion fatigue, fracture mechanics,

residual stress, plasticity, solidification processing, heat treatment, post-processing

operations, recycling, light metal alloys, ferrous alloys, powder metallurgy

Lambert, Christopher BEI Research Associate

Professor

Use of spectroscopic techniques for sensing of biological molecules, chemistry of

membrane bound molecules, time resolved fluorescence and absorption, Imaging

technologies, fabrication of devices based on self assembled monolayers, methods of

detection of glucose in biological fluids, metabolic monitoring of in vivo processes, time

resolved radiation chemistry, mechanisms of phototherapeutic systems, spectroscopic

methods of cancer detection

Larsen, Christopher J. MA Associate Professor Calculus of variations, partial differential equations, and geometric measure theory;

applications to Materials Science; time evolution of damage and fracture

Lauer, Hugh C. CS Adjunct Professor Surgical navigation, tracking of positions of surgical instruments relative to patients' bodies

using low-power RF signals in the microwave band

Lee, Chang Hyeong MA Visiting Assistant

Professor

Biochemical reaction networks, stochastic reaction kinetics, elimination of fast reaction

kinetics

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Liang, Jianyu ME Assistant Professor Nanofabrication through non-lithographic approaches, heteroepitaxial growth of high

quality quantum dots and semiconductor thin films on nanopatterned substrates for

electronic, optic, and biomedical applications, nanomanufacturing, bio nano mechanics

Lindeman, Robert W. CS Assistant Professor Stimulating the human senses to make virtual experiences and games more realistic,

effective interaction techniques in immersive virtual environments, the use of vibrotactile

feedback for applications in virtual & real environments and simulations, computer

graphics, robot teleoperator support, human-computer interaction, wearable computers

Ljungquist, Kent P. HUA Professor American writers, regional literature, supernatural fiction, realistic fiction, documentary

editing

Loiacono-Colla, Eleanor T. MGT Associate Professor Website quality, information system accessibility, e-commerce, affect in information

systems

Looft, Fred J. ECE Professor Computer architecture and embedded systems, space flight systems and nanosats,

innovative educational programs and projects, robotics and robots

Lou, Wenjing ECE Assistant Professor Wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, ad hoc networks, network security,

energy-efficient protocols

Lu, Jiacai ME Research Assistant

Professor

Computational fluid dynamics, numerical method in complex multiphase flows including

boiling heat transfer and bubble interaction and coalescence in turbulent flows,

experimental gas-liquid two phase flows, thermal energy storage systems

Ludwig, Reinhold ECE Professor Sensors, electromagnetic and acoustic nondestructive evaluation, radio frequency coils for

magnetic resonance imaging, radio frequency circuits, X-ray imaging

Lui, Roger Y. MA Professor Mathematical biology, partial differential equations

Lurie, Konstantin MA Professor Calculus of variations, non-convex problems of optimal material design, theory of spatio-

temporal (dynamic) materials

Ma, Yi H. CHE Professor Synthesis, characterization and industrial applications of composite Pd and Pd-alloy-porous

stainless steel (PSS) membranes for hydrogen separation and production applications,

including hydrogen membrane reactors for steam reforming and fuel cell applications

MacDonald, John C. CBC Associate Professor Supramolecular chemistry in solids and on surfaces, crystal engineering, porous materials,

surface chemistry, molecular sensors

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Makarov, Sergey N. ECE Professor Antennas including wires, loops, patches, and circularly polarized antennas

Electromagnetic field devices, electromagnetic sensors Computational electromagnetics

(MoM/FEM/Ansoft HFSS) Radiation force/torque effects

Makhlouf, Makhlouf M. ME Professor Materials processing, particularly solidification of metals, and the application of

thermodynamics, kinetics, and the concepts of heat, and mass transfer to modeling

mechanisms and processes in materials science and engineering

Mallick, Rajib B. CEE Associate Professor Pavement engineering, material characterization and pavement design, development and

use of nondestructive testing and evaluation and accelerated loading and testing, pavement

instrumentation and response, recycling and sustainable development

Mani, Murali CS Assistant Professor Database systems, data integration, query optimization, view maintenance, updating views,

XML stream data systems, sensor data management, web database systems, crawling,

indexing and searching documents, information retrieval

Maniruzzaman, Mohammad ME Research Assistant

Professor

Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation (CFD and FEM) of materials processing,

alloy heat treatment, molten metal treatment and microstructural characterization of

materials using x-ray, optical and electron microscopy

Martin, William J. MA Associate Professor Algebraic combinatorics, association schemes, Delsarte Theory; error-correcting codes,

combinatorial designs, algebraic graph theory, cryptography, combinatorial structures in

cryptography; networks, routing, reliability, topology, provable security, authentication,

random number generation, implementation issues.

Masamune, Jun MA Visiting Assistant

Professor

Geometric analysis on manifolds, graphs, and fractals

Mathews, Lauren M. BBT Assistant Professor Evolutionary ecology of marine and aquatic invertebrates, including phylogeography,

population genetics, and behavior, design and application of molecular genetic tools for

ecological research, conservation biology

Mathisen, Paul P. CEE Associate Professor Environmental engineering, water resources, environmental fluid dynamics, ground-

water/surface-water exchanges, water quality management, contaminant fate and transport,

geochemical modeling, contaminated sediments, coastal and estuarine processes

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McGimpsey, W. Grant CBC Associate Provost for

Research and Graduate

Studies ad interim;

Director, WPI BEI;

Professor

Surface chemistry, chemical surface modification, thin film devices, nanotechnology,

nanoscience, MEMS, sensors, biomaterials

McNeill, John A. ECE Associate Professor Analog and mixed signal IC design, self-calibrating analog-to-digital converters (ADCs),

low jitter oscillators, phase-locked loops (PLL)

Meacham, Brian J. FPE Associate Professor Risk-informed performance-based design and regulation, fire risk management, risk

perception and decision making in fire, egress and evacuation issues and strategies, fire

detection and alarm systems, smoke management, fire response of structures, multi-hazard

mitigation in buildings, and multi-disciplinary approaches to address risk, security and

sustainability issues

Mendelson, Yitzhak BME Associate Professor Biosensors, microcomputer-based biomedical instrumentation, invasive and noninvasive

Michalson, William R. ECE Professor Radio navigation, tracking, indoor geolocation, communications, communications

interoperability, high-performance embedded computer systems

Miller, Fabienne MGT Assistant Professor Managerial accounting, use of accounting information in decision-making within the firm

as well as between firms, negotiations, supply chains

Monat, Jamie Peter MGT Director Exec Ed;

Adjunct Assistant

Professor

Productivity measurement and management, risk analysis, decision analysis, use of logistic

regression in business analysis

Mosco, Umberto MA Professor Partial differential equations, convex analysis, optimal control, variational calculus,

fractals, fractal boundary value problems

Mott, Wesley T. HUA Professor New England transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, textual

editing

Mukherjee, Kankana MGT Assistant Professor Productivity and efficiency analysis applied to various sectors including manufacturing and

banking, energy use efficiency

Nandram, Balgobin MA Professor Survey methodology, Bayesian statistics, small area estimation, nonsampling errors,

statistical computing, health statistics, statistical computing

Nikitina, Svetlana HUA Adjunct Assistant

Professor

Emergent literature (hypertext, kinetic poetry), modernist movement in literature (Imagism

and Symbolism), comparative literature with focus on environmental and technological

issues, interdisciplinary teaching in the humanities

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Norton, Robert L. ME Professor Mechanical design and analysis, dynamic signal analysis, computer-aided engineering,

computer-aided design, finite element method, vibration analysis, engineering design,

biomedical engineering

Notarianni, Kathy A. FPE Associate Professor Firefighter safety, fire detection and suppression, high-bay fire protection, fire policy and

risk, uncertainty, performance-based design, engineering tools

O’Connor, John T. SSPS Professor Economic theory and medical economics, governmental planning and regulation in the

health care sector, cost-benefit analysis applied to new medical technologies and the

measurement of the outcomes of medical/surgical interventions

O’Shaughnessy, James C. CEE Professor Sustainability and green engineering, industrial waste/pollution prevention, hazardous

waste destruction

Olinger, David J. ME Associate Professor Fluid mechanics, aero- and hydrodynamics, fluid structure interaction, fluid flow control,

chaos theory

Orr, John A. Provost's

Office

Provost and Senior Vice

President

Communications and signal processing, positioning systems including indoor positioning,

power quality, engineering education

Overstrom, Eric W. BBT Professor Oocyte biology, developmental cell biology, animal somatic cell cloning

Padir, Taskin Robotics and

ECE

Visiting Assistant

Professor of Robotics

and ECE

Robotics, modeling and control of multi-robot systems, automated system design, machine

vision, robotics engineering education

Page, Raymond L. BBT Research Assistant

Professor

Cell differentiation and de-differentiation, autologous cell/tissue therapy, functional wound

regeneration, molecular developmental biology, regenerative medicine

Pahlavan, Kaveh ECE Professor Broadband wireless adhoc sensor networks and localization using signals of opportunity

Pavlov, Oleg V. SSPS Associate Professor System dynamics, computational economics, microeconomics, simulation, economics of

information systems

Pedersen, Peder C. ECE Professor Ultrasound diagnostic systems for disaster, trauma and rural medicine, including wireless

image streaming; 3D imaging systems and 3D visualization; ultrasound training tools, such

as virtual training and of injury-mimicking ultrasound phantoms; atherosclerotic plaque

classification; modeling and optimizing pulse-echo ultrasound systems

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Peet, R. Creighton IGSD Adjunct Assistant

Professor

Sustainable water resources management; sustainable management of natural resources;

sustainable development in less developed countries; participatory approaches to research

and community development

Petruccelli, Joseph D. MA Professor Time series (nonlinear models), optimal topping (best choice problems), statistics

Phillies, George D. PH Professor Theoretical statistical mechanics, dynamics of polymer solutions, molecular dynamics, the

glass problem, diffusion, rheology, colloid solution dynamics, design of strategic board

games

Pietroforte, Roberto CEE Associate Professor Construction engineering and management, construction economics, building systems,

architectural engineering, international construction

Pins, George BME Associate Professor Cell and tissue engineering, biomaterials, bioMEMS, novel fabrication techniques to

produce scaffolds for soft tissue repair, cell-material interactions, wound healing, cell

culture technologies

Plummer, Jeanine D. CEE Associate Professor Source water quality assessment; surface water contamination; indicator organisms;

microbial source tracking; physiochemical treatment processes; disinfection

Politz, Samuel M. BBT Associate Professor Genetic control of surface glycoprotein expression in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans,

chemosensory control of nematode behavior and development, host immune responses to

parasitic nematode infections, genetics of nematode innate immunity to pathogenic

infections

Pollice, Gary F. CS Professor of Practice Software development methods, collaborative development environments, agile

methodologies, software engineering education

Prusty Rao, Reeta BBT Assistant Professor Fungal pathogenesis and its regulation by small molecules, genomic approaches to

identifying novel virulence factor as targets for antifungal drug development, genetic

modification of yeast to increase ethanol production

Pryputniewicz, Ryszard J. ME Professor MEMS and nanotechnology, laser applications, holography, fiber optics, computer

modeling of dynamic systems, bioengineering, packaging, thermal management, reliability

of microsystems

Quimby, Richard S. PH Associate Professor Optical properties of solids, laser spectroscopy, fiber optics

Radzicki, Michael J. SSPS Associate Professor Economic growth, fiscal and monetary policy, combining post Keynesian economics and

institutional economics with system dynamics, agent-based modeling, stocks and options

trading

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Ram-Mohan, L. R. PH Professor Quantum field theory, solid state physics, differential geometry and finite-element

modeling of spintronic and optoelectronic quantum systems; diffusion in multicomponent

metallic alloys

Rangwala, Ali FPE Assistant Professor Flame spread, compartment fire modeling, zone modeling, dust ignition, dust explosion,

deflagration, LNG

Rawson, David A. HUA Adjunct Assistant

Professor

Colonial and Early Republic America, esp. Virginia & the Chesapeake, with focus on

socioeconomic development. History of Printing & Publishing in America to 1850. Also

directs student projects with a local history focus.

Ray, Malcolm H. CEE Professor Impact mechanics, transportation safety, structural mechanics

Rich, Charles CS Professor Artificial intelligence; interactive media and game development; intelligent user interfaces;

human-robot interaction

Richman, Mark W. ME Associate Professor Mechanics of granular flows, kinetic theory of denses dissipative systems, powder

compaction, powder metallurgy

Rissmiller, Kent J. SSPS/IGSD Associate Professor;

Associate Dean, IGSD

Public policy, especially with regard to energy and environment, regulatory politics and

policy, courts and judicial policy making, policy modeling, federalism and

intergovernmental relations

Rivera, Angel A. HUA Associate Professor Nineteenth and twentieth-century Spanish Caribbean literature and its connection to

cultural studies, modernity and modernization, the genders of modernity, literary strategies

used in the construction of a national and personal subjectivity, the role of the intellectual

and its relationship to literary discourses, travel literatures in the context of the Caribbean, Robertson, Thomas HUA Assistant Professor American environmental history, the history of American foreign relations, twentieth-

century America, American relations with the developing world, post-World War II

American debates about population growth both at home and globally

Rolle, Marsha BME Assistant Professor Cardiovascular tissue engineering; cell-based tissue engineering and repair; cell-

mediated extracellular matrix synthesis and assembly; delivery and control of extracellular

matrix genes

Rong, Yiming ME Professor Manufacturing systems and processes, CAD/CAM, computer-aided fixture design and

verification, heat treatment process modeling and simulation

Rosenstock, Joshua HUA Assistant Professor Multimedia, performance art, site specific installation, interactive interfaces, film & video,

animation, digital music production, electronic instrument and controller design,

photography, diasporic music, net culture, political agitprop, stencil art, music videos, game

engines, sound art, autonomous and robotic systems, microcontrollers, kinetic sound

sculpture, improvisation, hardware hacking, time-lapse photography, VJing, web design, 3d

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Rudolph, Jennifer HUA Associate Professor Modern East Asian history, including Chinese reform efforts, institutional functioning,

modernity and modernization, urbanization, women, foreign relations, imperialism and its

legacies, and globalization

Ruiz, Carolina CS Associate Professor Knowledge discovery in databases, data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence,

bioinformatics, genetic analysis, medical data mining

Rulfs, Jill BBT Associate Professor Cell culture model systems of signal transduction, metabolic effects of phytoestrogens,

cultured cells in tissue engineering

Rundensteiner, Elke A. CS Professor Databases, information extraction and integration, large-scale distributed data management

systems, stream data processing and monitoring technology, XML and web models, query

optimization, derived data and change management, information visualization and

discovery

Ryder, Elizabeth F. BBT Associate Professor Nervous system development using C. elegans as a genetic model, bioinformatics

approaches to understanding gene expression, computer simulations of developmental

processes such as cell migration

Saeed, Khalid SSPS Professor Sustainable economic development, environment, system dynamics, telecommunication

systems management, electricity distribution management, environmental mitigation

banking, macro-engineering project management, political economy, sustainable energy,

forecastingSalazar, Guillermo CEE Associate Professor Integration of design and construction, computer models and information technology,

cooperative agreements

Samson, M. David HUA Associate Professor History of modern architecture in the United States, impact in America of German

architectural theory, 1900-1933, especially that associated with the Bauhaus design school,

and career of American architect and writer/curator on architecture Philip Johnson (1906-

1995)

Sanbonmatsu, John HUA Assistant Professor Social and political philosophy, continental philosophy (critical theory, Marxism, and

existential phenomenology), sociology of knowledge, intellectuals and power, the political

theory of Antonio Gramsci, animal liberationism, theories of nature, feminism

Sands, Jessica T. HUA Adjunct Instructor of

Dance

American drama, technical theatre, stage management, and theatre design including scenic,

lighting, sound, and costume

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Sarkis-Martins, Marcus MA Associate Professor Numerical analysis, domain decomposition (DD), finite element methods (FEM), numerical

stochastic partial differential equations (PDE), multiscale FEM, high-performance

computing and CFD, numerical linear algebra, parallel solvers for PDE optimal control,

multiphase flow and petroleum application

Savilonis, Brian J. ME Professor Thermofluids, biofluid mechanics (cardiopulmonary flows), biomechanics, fire modeling,

energy systems

Sayit, Hasanjan MA Assistant Professor Mathematical finance, option pricing, pricing in incomplete markets, interest rate models,

credit risk modeling; stochastic analysis, stochastic calculus for fractional Brownian

motion, estimation techniques for long range dependent processes

Scala, Alfred A. CBC Professor Fundamental reaction dynamics, Transition State Theory, Hammond’s Postulate,

theoretical calculations of transition states, thermodynamic and kinetic control of reaction

products

Schachterle, Lance Provost's

Office

Associate Provost;

Professor

Scholarly editing, James Fenimore Cooper, literature of the Early American Republic

Schaufeld, Jerome MGT Professor of Practice Entrepreneurial activity, understanding and improving the factors that increase the

probability of success for early-stage technology-based enterprises, improving the selection

of funding sources for early-stage companies with emphasis and angel, and venture capital

sources, the operational and strategic dynamics of early-stage technology-based

manufacturing companies, commercialization of university-based research and the

translational dynamic to bring it to the marketplace, funding new ventures with institutional

and private sources of capital

Selkow, Stanley M. CS Professor Graph theory and combinatorics, algorithms

Servatius, Brigitte MA Professor Combinatorics, matroid and graph theory, structural topology, computational geometry and

computational structural biology (protein flexibility, structure, folding, alignment - i.e., the

problems that exhibit geometrical structure), history and philosophy of mathematics

Shim, Eunmi HUA Assistant Professor Musicology; American music, especially ragtime and jazz history

Shivkumar, Satya ME Professor Polymers, food science, biomaterials, materials processing, structure property relationships

Shockey, Ingrid K. IGSD Assistant Adjunct

Professor

Environmental sociology, sociological theory, ecology and tourism, and the political and

social dimensions of sustainability

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Sisson, Richard D. ME Professor Heat treating, materials process modeling and control, green technologies, manufacturing

engineering, environmental degradation of metals and ceramics, coatings, hydrogen

embrittlement and innovation education

Skorinko, Jeanine SSPS Assistant Professor Judgments and decision making (including consumer and legal judgments and decisions);

perspective taking; stigmatization, stereotyping, and reducing social inequality

Smith, Ruth L. HUA Associate Professor Religious and philosophical ethics, rhetoric and social philosophy

Sotak, Christopher H. BME Professor Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy

Spanagel, David I. HUA Visiting Assistant

Professor

History of American science, history of technology, American environmental history,

history of the earth and environmental sciences, history of maps and mapmaking,

technology and the environment

Stroe, Izabela PH Assistant Professor Hydration effects on protein dynamics, thermodynamics of proteins and DNA, dielectric

relaxation spectroscopy, relaxation calorimetry, resonant ultrasound spectroscopy

Strong, Diane M. MGT Associate Professor Enterprise systems and their effects on organizations with particular focus on the effects of

electronic medical records systems in health care organizations, the fit between IT

capabilities and organizational needs, and ensuring the quality of organizational data

Sullivan, John M. ME Professor Development and application of advanced numerical methods for visualization and solution

of partial differential equations in engineering and biological sciences; development of user

interactive grid generation and three-dimensional tools for registration and segmentation of

medical image data

Sunar, Berk ECE Associate Professor Security, cryptography, finite fields, quantum cryptography

Tang, Dalin MA Professor Computational modeling for biological systems, image-based modeling for cardiovascular

diseases, atherosclerotic plaques, computer-aided surgery planning for heart diseases,

biofluids, biosolids, scientific computing, computational fluid dynamics

Tao, Mingjiang CEE Assistant Professor Investigation fundamental behavior of geo-materials through advanced testing and

modeling techniques; Utilization of recycled materials in pavements based on a mechanistic

approach

Tashjian, Gloria MA Adjunct Assistant

Professor

General topology: uniform spaces, rings of continuous functions, category theory

Taylor, Steven S. MGT Associate Professor Organizational aesthetics, reflective practice, organizational theater, authentic leadership

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Teng, Zhongzhao MA Research Assistant

Professor

Material property of biological tissue, mechanics analysis of atherosclerotic plaque rupture,

fluid-structure interaction between blood flow and arterial wall, tissue engineering blood

vessel, collapse behavior of trachea.

Thalladi, Venkat R. CBC Assistant Professor Polymorphism in pharmaceutical solids, octupolar nonlinear optical materials, processable

and modular porous materials, organic and pharmaceutical alloys, chemical applications of

microfluidics, self-assembly approaches to nanofabrication, single molecule magnets

Thompson, Robert W. CHE Professor Crystallization, molecular sieve zeolite crystallization; applications of molecular sieve

zeolites, organics removal from tainted drinking and chemical process water; advanced

oxidation chemistry applied to water purification technologies; simulation of organic

molecular movement confined in nanoporous materials; sustainable alternative energy

assessments

Tryggvason, Gretar ME Professor Fluid mechanics, multiphase flow, computational fluid mechanics, modeling of multiphase

flows, boiling, solidification, electrohydrodynamics, complex flows, numerical methods,

multiscale modeling

Tulu, Bengisu MGT Assistant Professor Medical informatics, telemedicine, telecommunications and networking, voice/video over

IP, information systems security, technology acceptance and adoption, personal health

records, electronic health records, electronic disability records

Van De Ven, James D. ME Assistant Professor Energy conversion, storage, and generation with focus on efficiency, power density, and

sustainability. Machine design, fluid power, hybrid vehicles

Vassallo, Helen G. MGT Professor Organizational behavior, project management, management of biotechnology, medical

product liability

Vaz, Richard F. IGSD Dean, Interdisciplinary &

Global Studies

Engineering education reform, learning outcomes assessment, international education,

sustainable design and appropriate technology

Vermes, Domokos MA Associate Professor Optimal stochastic control theory, non-smooth analysis, stochastic processes with

discontinuous dynamics, adaptive optimal control in medical decision making

Vernescu, Bogdan M. MA Professor Partial differential equations, calculus of variations, homogenization, free boundary

problems, flow in porous media, composites, smart materials

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Vick, Susan HUA Professor Theatre; drama; developing new works for the theatre; discovering new playwrights for the

contemporary theatre, acting, directing, dramaturgy, and design; specialization in Shaw,

Shakespeare, the Greeks, and modern British and American drama. Published and

produced playwright and theatre commentator.

Volkov, Darko MA Assistant Professor Electromagnetic waves, inverse problems, wave propagation in waveguides and in periodic

structures, unstable evolution of geological faults, fault inverse problem in geophysics

Walker, Homer F. MA Professor Numerical analysis, especially numerical solution of large-scale linear and nonlinear

systems, unconstrained optimization, applications to ordinary and partial differential

equations and statistical estimation, computational and applied mathematics

Ward, Matthew O. CS Professor Design, implementation, and evaluation of interactive software for the visual analysis of

data and information, exploratory visualization of spatial and non-spatial data, application

of visualization to science, engineering, medicine, and commerce

Weathers, Pamela BBT Professor Biology of in vitro cultured plants and their tissues, plant secondary metabolism, mist

bioreactor development for plant and animal tissues, process development for plant

products; antimalarial sesquiterpene, therapeutic, artemisinin, its biosynthesis, regulation,

and production in plants and their tissues,algae for biofuel

Weekes, Suzanne L. MA Associate Professor Numerical analysis, hyperbolic conservation laws, shock capturing schemes, spatio-

temporal composites, computational fluid dynamics, porous media flow, mathematical

modeling, industrial mathematics

Weininger, Stephen J. CBC Professor Emeritus The history of chemistry, with special focus on the following: physical and physical organic

chemistry; chemical pedagogy; the relationship between physics and chemistry; literature,

science and the arts.

Wilkes, John M. SSPS Associate Professor Cognitive styles, research styles, learning styles, small group dynamics, equity in

standardized educational testing and evaluation, space technology and policy, creativity and

innovation, gender differences in technical careers, public attitudes toward technology (esp.

nuclear power), the forecasting of technological breakthroughs and assessment of their

social implications

Wills, Craig E. CS Associate Professor Web and internet application performance as well as management, characterization of

internet content dynamics and delivery mechanisms, computing, networking, user interfaces

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Wobbe, Kristin N. CBC Associate Professor Plant-microbe interactions and viral suppression of host resistance responses, artemisinin

biosynthesis, gene expression analysis, plant metabolic engineering

Wulf, Sharon A. MGT Visiting Assistant

Professor

Organizational and business development, strategic management, business

planning, customer service, leadership, and management training

Wu, Junhua MA Visiting Assistant

Professor

Algebraic combinatorics, coding theory, finite geometry, and representations of finite

groups.

Wyglinski, Alexander M. ECE Assistant Professor Wireless communications, wireless networks, cognitive radios, software-defined radios,

transceiver optimization algorithms, dynamic spectrum access networks, spectrum sensing

techniques, machine learning techniques for communication systems, signal processing

techniques for digital communications, hybrid fiber-wireless networking, and both multi-

hop and ad hoc networks

Yakovlev, Vadim V. MA Research Associate

Professor

Computational electromagnetics, coupled electromagnetic-thermal problem, inverse

problems and optimization with neural networks, reconstruction of material parameters,

optimization of antennas

Youngblood, Alisha D. MGT Visiting Assistant

Professor

Engineering economic analysis, cost estimation modeling, decision modeling, risk

management, transportation planning, inventory mangement methods, performance

measurement, productivity improvement

Yu, Weiyong CBC Assistant Professor Nano materials synthesis; nanocrystal growth mechanism; colloid and surface chemistry;

environmental, physical, and biomedical applications; nanocatalysis

Zeng, Amy Z. MGT Associate Professor Risk and disruption management and decisions in supply networks; global supply chain and

logistics process evaluation and improvement, global sourcing strategy (especially sourcing

from China), applications and impacts of computer technology in supply chain management

Zhao, Wanli MGT Assistant Professor Corporate governance, board of directors, top management team, executive compensation,

multinational companies

Zhou, Hong Susan CHE Assistant Professor Integrated microfluidic platform for biomedical applications, finite element analysis for the

study of microfluidics transport and surface reaction kinetics and the design of chip-based

device, fabrication of microfluidic biochip by micro/nano manufacturing technologies,

electrical and optical characterization of the biomolecules assembly at the chip surface,

novel micro- and nano- materials and fabrication technology for neuron science, novel

nanoassembly for drug delivery and petroleum purification

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Zhu, Joe MGT Associate Professor Performance evaluation and benchmarking for organizations, impact of information

technology use on productivity, business process modeling and improvement, service

productivity management

Zozulya, Alex A. PH Professor Atomic and molecular physics, cold atom optics, nonlinear optics

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