Faculty
The ORwE degree program draws on expertise from professors in the following departments:
Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Computer Science
Soutir Bandyopadhyay
Professor
Areas of specialization: Spatial and environmental statistics, time series, bioinformatics, bootstrap/resampling methods, large sample theory.
Doug Nychka
Professor
Areas of specialization: Statistical computing, curve and surface fitting, spatial statistics, uncertainty quantification.
Dorit Hammerling
Associate Professor
Areas of specialization: Spatial, environmental, and computational statistics, weather and climate applications, oil and gas emissions and local sensing, remote sensing data applications.
Dinesh Mehta
Professor
Areas of specialization: Applied algorithms and data structures, cheminformatics.
Dejun Yang
Associate Professor
Areas of specialization: Algorithmic game theory, incentive mechanism design, algorithm design, and optimization, with the focus on applications to networks, crowdsourcing, cloud computing, smart grid, and security and privacy.
Economics and Business
Morgan Bazilian
Research Professor
Areas of specialization: Energy planning, energy access, smartgrids, energy governance.
Mechanical Engineering
Robert Braun
Professor
Areas of specialization: SOFC system design, analysis, and optimization, multi-scale modeling, thermochemical and electrochemical systems.
Alexandra Newman
Professor
Areas of specialization: Applied optimization, transportation logistics, mine production scheduling, military applications, energy systems.
Paulo Cesar Tabares-Velasco
Associate Professor
Areas of specialization: Building energy simulations, thermal storage, green roofs, heat transfer applied to buildings, buildings interactions with the smart grid.
Brian Thomas
Professor
Areas of specialization: Metals processing, metallographic analysis, computational modeling of the continuous casting of steel and related products.
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Mining Engineering
Jeffrey King
Professor
Areas of specialization: Nuclear reactor design and analysis; nuclear reactor physics; small and medium reactors; nuclear materials; computational methods; public policy and outreach.
Chester Van Tyne
Professor
Areas of specialization: Forging and forming.
Kadri Dagdelen
Professor
Areas of specialization: Geostatistical resource and reserve estimation for metal and precious metal deposits, especially gold; open pit and underground mine planning, design, equipment selection and economic evaluation.