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.

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Hojun Choi

Assistant Professor
Areas of specialization: Advanced Energy Systems & Integration, Critical Materials & Supply Chains, Economic Feasibility & Social Acceptance, Energy in Global Context, Environment Climate & Society, Intersections of Science Policy & Governance, Natural Resource Geopolitics & Economics

Mechanical Engineering

Robert Braun

Professor
Areas of specialization: SOFC system design, analysis, and optimization, multi-scale modeling, thermochemical and electrochemical systems.

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Alexandra Newman

ORwE Director, 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.