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Faculty with Primary Appointments in
Industrial Engineering

Human Factors, Production Systems, Reliability Systems

Human Factors Faculty

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Linda Boyle

Research Interests: Human factors, modeling driver behavior, user acceptance of new technology, commercial vehicle operations and transportation safety.

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John D. Lee

Research Interests: Human factors, driver response to in-vehicle technology, computer models of driver performance, trust in automation.

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Thomas Schnell

Research Interests: Human factors, driver behavior assessment and measurement, accident analyses, perception and information processing, sensory capabilities and limitations, industrial hygiene; computer simulation (traffic engineering or manufacturing), statistical analysis and modeling, software and database design, intelligent systems, image processing and vision systems.

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Geb Thomas

Research Interests: Virtual reality, robotics, human-computer interaction.

Production Systems Faculty

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Andrew Kusiak

Research Interests: Data mining, evolutionary computation, optimization of energy systems, mass customization, healthcare systems, medical technology, reengineering, engineering design, manufacturing, process modeling.

Photo of Peter O'Grady Peter J. O'Grady

Research Interests: Supply chain design, large scale networks, collaborative systems for design and manufacturing, financial engineering and distributed design.

Reliability Systems Faculty

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Yong Chen

Research Interests: Maintenance decision making, process monitoring and diagnosis, reliability modeling and analysis, manufacturing system design.

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Pavlo Krokhmal

Research Interests: Stochastic optimization, risk analysis, probabilistic combinatorial optimization, cooperative control, optimal trading strategies and pricing of derivatives.

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