HEINZ - Key Persons
Professor Blumstein's research over the past twenty years has covered many aspects of criminal justice phenomena and policy, including crime measurement, criminal careers, sentencing, deterrence and incapacitation, prison populations, flow through the system, demographic trends, juvenile violence and drug-enforcement policy.
Before joining Heinz College in 1969, Professor Blumstein was at the Institute for Defense Analyses, where he was Director of the Office of Urban Research and a member of the Research Council. In the mid-'60s, he was Director of the Science and Technology Task Force for the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, Washington, D.C.
Prof. Blumstein was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice from its founding in 1975 until 1986. He served as chairman of that committee between 1979 and 1984, and also has chaired the committee's panels on Research on Deterrent and Incapacitative Effects, Sentencing Research, and Research on Criminal Careers. He was a member of the Academy's Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education from 1994 to 2000. Prof. Blumstein also served from 1979 to 1990 as chairman of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, the state's criminal justice planning agency, and as a member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing from 1986 to 1996.
He was also director of the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR), a multi-university initiative funded by the National Science Foundation and headquartered at the Heinz College.
Prof. Blumstein was president of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) in 1977-78, and received ORSA's Kimball Medal "for service to the profession and the society" in 1985 and its President's Award in 1993 "for service to society." He was president of The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS) in 1987-88 and in 1996 he was the president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), created by the merger of ORSA and TIMS. He is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Society of Criminology, which awarded him its Sutherland Award for "contributions to research" in 1987. He also served as the society's president in 1991-92. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. He was awarded the Wolfgang Award for Distinguished Achievement in Criminology in 1998 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998. He was awarded the 2007 Stockholm Prize in Criminology. He was appointed in 2012 as chair of the Science Advisory Board for the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Dept of Justice
Job Titles:
- Faculty Expert Finder
- Professor of Statistics and Health Policy
Amelia Haviland joined the Heinz College faculty as an Associate Professor in 2011.
Prior to this position she was a Senior Statistician at the RAND Corporation where she worked since receiving her joint PhD in statistics and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. She is the recipient of the Anna Loomis McCandless Chair, a Thomas Lord Distinguished Scholar Award (Institute for Civil Justice, RAND), a MacArthur Fellowship for Younger Scholars (MacArthur Research Network on Social Interactions and Economic Inequality), and a Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship (Section on Government Statistics, American Statistical Association).
Dr. Haviland's research focuses on causal analysis with observational data and analysis of longitudinal and complex survey data applied to policy issues in health and criminology. For example, she recently led a team of researchers assessing the effects of high deductible account-based health insurance plans on health care costs, use, and disparities in the most comprehensive study on the topic to date. Other health policy work involves assessing mechanisms for health disparities for Medicare recipients and exploring connections between patient safety and recent reductions in medical malpractice claims. An example of her work in criminology is methodological work extending group-based trajectory modeling (semi-parametric longitudinal mixture models) to address causal questions with application to assessing the effect of gang membership on violent delinquency. She currently serves on the National Research Council Panel tasked with assessing the research evidence on whether there is a deterrent effect of the death penalty. This and other work of Dr. Haviland's has been published in journals such as Psychometrika, Psychological Methods, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Survey Methodology, Criminology, Health Affairs, Health Services Research, Medical Care, and the Forum for Health Economics and Policy.
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- Chairman Professorship. 2015
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- Board Chair & Co - Owner / Oxford Development Company
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- Anna Loomis McCandless Chair and Associate Professor of IT and Management
- Associate Professor of IT and Management
- Faculty Expert Finder
Beibei Li is Anna Loomis McCandless Chair and Associate Professor of IT and Management. She received her PhD with distinction from Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU.
Beibei's research interests lie at the intersection between social and technical aspects of information technology. She is especially interested in the interaction between human decisions and recent technological disruptions in both online and offline markets. Specifically, the ubiquitous adoption and usage of smart and connected mobile, web and sensor technologies today have completely changed the way individuals behave and make decisions. These smart technologies have led to the pervasive digitization of individual behavior across digital and physical environments at a very fine-grained level. This information provides us with a new lens through which we can better monitor, understand, and optimize the individual decision making. By looking into these digital footprints of individuals and their interactions with technologies, Beibei is interested in designing effective strategies for technology platforms and policy makers to improve technology design and economic welfare. To reach these goals, Beibei applies inter-disciplinary approaches combining econometrics, economic structural modeling, Bayesian modeling and randomized experiments, with crowd-sourcing and machine learning/deep learning techniques.
Beibei is the recent recipient of the INFORMS ISS Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award in 2019 and the Anna Loomis McCandless Chair Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015. Beibei's research has been published in Management Science, Marketing Science, Information Systems Research, Management Information Systems Quarterly, and several top IS, Economics, Marketing and CS conferences. She is the winner of the Best Paper Award at the 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011), two Best Paper Awards at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2012 and ICIS 2019), several Best Paper Awards at major journals and workshops in IT & Management (ISR, WITS, WISE, CIST). She has won three NSF Awards with over $3M total funding, five Faculty Research Awards from Amazon, Google, Facebook, Adobe and Marketing Science Institute (MSI), and a WCAI Research Award from Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative. Beibei is the winner of the Junior Marketing Researcher Award at the Big Data Marketing Conference 2015. She is also the winner of the INFORMS ISS Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award , the ACM SIGMIS Best Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Herman E. Krooss Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2012-2013.
Prior to getting her PhD, Beibei held a BS and a MS in Computer Science. She also minored in Fashion Design.
Job Titles:
- Director, D.C. Hunger Solutions
Bikash Gupta he/him/his Research Assistant of Diversity, Inclusion, Climate and Equity Interests: Dismantling Casteism, Social Justice, Women empowerment in Nepal, Economic Development, Using Data for Social Good, Politics, and Policy.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy
- Faculty Expert Finder
Brian Kovak is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.
His research examines the economic effects of international migration and trade with a focus on local labor markets. Dr. Kovak's recent work concerns worker mobility in response to local labor market conditions, and in particular the role of immigrants' geographic mobility in equalizing wage differences for native-born workers across U.S. local labor markets. Dr. Kovak also studies the local labor market effects of trade liberalization, developing theoretically motivated empirical approaches based on specific-factors models of local economies. Across several projects, he has employed these empirical approaches using household survey and matched employer-employee data from Brazil to study the effects of liberalization on wages, employment, informality, and the skill premium. His research has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, and the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Dr. Kovak received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan, a Master of Public Administration from Indiana University, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Penn State University. He currently holds the Dean's Career Development Professorship at the Heinz College, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Development Economics. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research as well as a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). In 2014, Dr. Kovak was awarded the IZA Young Labor Economist Award for the best peer-reviewed journal publication in labor economics by authors under age 40.
Courses Taught
90-822 - Critical Analysis of Policy Research
90-908 - Ph.D. Microeconomics
Job Titles:
- Attorney General and Mandatory Drug Laws. the American. September 23 Rd.
- Improving Research on Drug Law Enforcement. International Journal of Drug Policy. 41
- Other Professional Publications ( 2010 - Present )
Humphreys, Keith, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Vanda Felbab-Brown. (2020). What the US and Canada can learn from other countries to combat the opioid crisis. Brookings Institution Order from Chaos series, advailable at https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/01/13/what-the-us-and-canada-can-learn-from-other-countries-to-combat-the-opioid-crisis/.
Caulkins, Jonathan P. 2017. Improving research on drug law enforcement. International Journal of Drug Policy. 41:158-159.
Caulkins, Jonathan P. Medical marijuana: The Justice Department speaks - again. Christian Science Monitor, August 8 th, 2011. www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/0808/Medical-marijuana-The-Justice-Department-speaks-again.
Caulkins, Jonathan P., Jonathan Kulick, and Mark A.R. Kleiman. 2011. Think Again: The Afghan Drug Trade. Foreign Policy, April 1.
Caulkins, Jonathan P. (2012). The Term and the Vision (Comment on Victoria A. Greenfield and Letizia Paoli's If supply-oriented drug policy is broken, can harm reduction help fix it?) International Journal of Drug Policy. 23: 19-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2011.07.006.
Caulkins, Jonathan P., Mark A.R. Kleiman, and Jonathan Kulick. 2010. Drug Production and Trafficking, Counterdrug Policies, and Security and Governance in Afghanistan. New York University's Center on International Coopertion, New York, March.
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- Distinguished Service Professor
- Faculty Expert Finder
Chris Goranson is a distinguished service professor, teaching classes in GIS, data visualization, and at the intersection of design, innovation, and analytics.
Chris has a range of experience in both city and the federal government. Most recently Chris was at 18F managing digital services consulting, strategy and design projects for the federal government. 18F is an office within the General Services Administration that collaborates with other agencies to fix technical problems, build products, and improve how government serves the public through technology with a focus on user research and user-centered design. Projects included modernization efforts around the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs at NASA and National Science Foundation; digital strategy consulting for the U.S. Department of Commerce Data Corps / National Technical Information Service; digital services consulting at the U.S. Department of the Interior, and agile contracting consulting for the U.S. Forest Service, Navy, and USAID.
Daniel S. Nagin is the Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics and since 2006 has served as the college's Associate Dean of Faculty. He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from what is now the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.
He is the co-editor of Criminology and Public Policy, chaired the National Research Council's Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty, and served as Deputy Secretary for Fiscal Policy and Analysis in the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue from 1981 to 1986.
He is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Academy of Political and Social Science and the recipient of the American Society of Criminology's Edwin H Sutherland Award in 2006, the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2014, Carnegie Mellon University's Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award in 2015, and the National Academy of Science Award for Scientific Reviewing in 2017.
His research focuses on the evolution of criminal and antisocial behaviors over the life course, the deterrent effect of criminal and non-criminal penalties on illegal behaviors, and the development of statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal data. His work has appeared in such diverse outlets as the American Economic Review, American Sociological Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Journal of Sociology, Archives of General Psychiatry, Criminology, Child Development, Demography, Psychological Methodology, Law & Society Review, Crime and Justice Annual Review, Operations Research, and Stanford Law Review. He is also the author of Group-based Modeling of Development (Harvard University Press, 2005).
Courses Taught
90-901 - Ph.D. Seminar I
Job Titles:
- Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, Climate and Equity
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- Dean of Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
- Dean, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and William W. and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems
- Faculty Expert Finder
- India Education Diary
Ramayya Krishnan is the W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at Heinz College and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. A faculty member at CMU since 1988, Krishnan was appointed as Dean of the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy in 2009.
Krishnan was educated at the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin. He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, a master's degree in industrial engineering and operations research, and a PhD in management science and information systems. He is an expert on digital transformation and has worked extensively with firms and policy makers on using technology and analytics to achieve policy goals. He is well known for his work in e-commerce and information risk management where he has made seminal contributions to technology management and policy. His current research interests are in the responsible use of AI and in data driven approaches to support workforce development.
Krishnan has been a serial academic entrepreneur. He founded the Master of Information Systems and Management program in 1998. The program grew from a founding cohort of 10 students to an intake of 120 students in a few years and now has alumni in leading tech companies throughout the world. The data analytics track of the program (BIDA) was chosen by the US Army Futures Command in 2020 to be part of its AI scholars program.In 2022, he and his colleagues at the Heinz College launched the Decision Analytics and Systems (DAS) program, an innovative undergraduate minor that combines systems thinking, analytics and experiential learning. INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, the leading organization of scholars and practitioners of analytics, recognized Heinz College in 2016 with the UPS George D. Smith Prize for educational excellence. Heinz College is the only educational institution that is home to both the Von Neumann Theory Prize and the UPS George D. Smith Prize from INFORMS.
Krishnan has founded 4 externally funded research centers raising close to $100M dollars over the course of the last decade. He directs the Block Center for Technology and Society and advises policy makers, business leaders and international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank on Technology and Policy. He is an American Association for the Advancement of Science - AAAS Fellow (section T), an INFORMS Fellow, an elected member of the National Academy of Public Administration and a commissioner of the Geotech Center of the Atlantic Council.
Krishnan has extensive experience and expertise in public policy. He serves on the IT and Services Advisory Board chaired by Gov. Tom Wolf of the State of Pennsylvania and is a member of the policy advisory board of the GAO chaired by Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States. He serves on a select advisory board on technology and economic development to the President of Asian Development Bank. In May 2019, he served as an invited member of a Royal Society and National Academies convening on Artificial Intelligence and its consequences. In 2020, he led a CMU team of faculty experts helping Gov. Wolf and State of Pennsylvania with recovery and reopening policy. He is a distinguished alumnus of both the Indian institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin. He served in 2019 as the 25th President of INFORMS, the Global Operations Research and Analytics Society. He was appointed to the National AI Advisory Committee to the President of the United States and the National AI Initiatives office in 2022.
Technology is impacting everything we do, from the way we live our lives to the way we do business, from the way we connect with others to the way we monitor our own health, from the way we analyze our surroundings to the way we navigate our world.
Policy defines priorities and guides action. The creation, deployment, and re-visioning of smart policies through rigorous inquiry and evidence-based decision-making has always been a key component of human innovation and progress.
Policy and technology have historically been separate domains, but more and more the lines between the two-and the demands they place on each other-are blurring. And of critical interest is how this impacts People.
People, policy, and technology. The connections among the three define our time, and will continue to shape the future of humankind.
The Dean's Advisory Council is a trusted group of alumni and friends of Heinz College who are committed to the College's success. Members of the Advisory Council are critical to Heinz College's mission and growth, meeting regularly with Dean Krishnan and Heinz College's senior leadership team. These individuals bring considerable expertise and lend their resources, networks, time, and talent to improve Heinz College's visibility and capacity for innovation.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Director of the Project
- Faculty Expert Finder
Rousseau is chair of the Health Care Policy and Management program and director of the Project on Evidence-Based Organizational Practices. Rousseau is also Academic Board President of the Center for Evidence-Based Management, and Co-Chair of the Campbell Library's Management and Business Coordinating Group. Her publications include over a dozen books and over 220 articles and monographs in management and psychology journals. Rousseau received her A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley with degrees in psychology and anthropology.
Rousseau was 2010-2011 Chair of the Carnegie Mellon Faculty Senate, the 2004-2005 President of the Academy of Management and the 1998-2007 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Rousseau founded the Evidence-Based Management Collaborative, a network of scholars, consultants, and practicing managers to promote evidence-informed organizational practices and decision making. She has served on panels for the Institute of Medicine, National Science Foundation and the National Institute for Education and on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals. She was previously on the faculty of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, the University of Michigan's Department of Psychology and Institute for Social Research, and the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Leeds (UK), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), and Renmin University (China). She has been an International Visiting Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management (UK), Dublin City University's School of Business (Ireland) and the University of Cardiff Business School (Wales).
Rousseau, D.M. Changing the deal while keeping the people. Academy of Management Executive, 1996, 10, 50-59.
Rousseau, D.M. DeRozario, P., Jardat, R. & Pesquex, Y. Contracts psychologiques et organisations: Comprendre les accords ecrit et non-ecrit.[French translation and extension of Psychological contracts in organizations: Understanding written and unwritten agreements.] Paris: Pearson, 2014.
Hornung, S., Glaser, J., & Rousseau, D. M. (2018). Mitarbeiterorientierte Flexibilisierung von Arbeit durch individuelle Aushand lungen: Ein Forschungsprogramm der Angewandten Psychologie [Employee-oriented flexibility through idiosyncratic deals: A research program in applied psychology]. In P. Sachse & E. Ulich (Eds.), Beiträge zur Arbeitspsychologie, Band 13 [Contributions to work psychology, Vol 13]. Lengerich DE: Pabs t.
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- Associate Teaching Professor
- Faculty Expert Finder
- Professor of Arts Management at Carnegie Mellon University 's Heinz College of Information Systems
Dr. Brett Ashley Crawford is an Associate Teaching Professor of Arts Management at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and the Faculty Chair of the Masters of Arts & Entertainment Management programs.
Dr. Crawford has worked extensively as a professional arts manager, primarily in theatre, and as professor in both arts management and theatre history. The highlights of her private sector work include serving as Managing Director with Imagination Stage, an arts education and professional theatre located in Bethesda, MD, the managing director / production manager of Rep Stage and the Horowitz Center for the Arts in Columbia, MD, managing director for St. Bart's Playhouse in New York City. She is a member of AEA in stage management and has held myriad independent management, marketing and consulting engagements in theatre, film, and arts festival work in PA, NY, GA, TN, TX, and MD.
Her academic areas of specialization include creative theories, marketing, audience engagement, strategy and management systems, technology and the arts, and the history American theatre. Current research includes a digital history of women producers on Broadway from 1900 to present and a monograph of the networks of women linking the Art Theatre to the Regional Theatre movement.
She currently serves as the executive director for the Arts Management and Technology Laboratory, a Research Center in Heinz College. AMT Lab serves the field through active research and engagement into the technology solutions artists and institutions are utilizing in their workdays and public programs. Recent national research studies include emerging digital fundraising pathways and Using Artifician Intelligence to Increase Engagement with Public Art.
She has presented invited lectures and workshops across the United States and internationally on marketing, audience engagement, audience development, business models and methods, technology and the arts, and production management to audiences including guests of the Department of State, Arts Presenters, the University of Helsinki, and the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Prior to coming to CMU, she served as an assistant professor and program director of the graduate Arts Management program at American University. She also taught arts management and theatre history at University of Maryland, College Park, Towson University, Georgia State University, Auburn University and LaGrange College.
She received her BS in Theatre from Northwestern University, MFA in Arts Management from Texas Tech University, with a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism with a graduate certificate in Women's Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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- Assistant Teaching Professor of Professional Communication
- Co - Editor of the Collection Beyond
- Faculty Expert Finder
- Professor of Professional Communication
Dr. Rebekah Fitzsimmons is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Professional Communication in the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Fitzsimmons currently teaches graduate level core communication courses (Strategic Presentation Skills, Writing for Public Policy, Professional Communication, Writing for Information Systems Management) at Heinz. Her pedagogical approach focuses on innovative use of digital technologies in the classroom, as well as helping experts translate and transmit highly technical knowledge to non-experts through storytelling and multimodal communication.
Dr. Fitzsimmons is the co-editor of the collection Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary YA (2020). She has published articles in Children's Literature, Lion and the Unicorn, the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. Her work also appears in the edited collections The Early Reader in Children's Literature and Culture and the Prizing Children's Literature Collection. She currently serves on the Membership Committee for the Children's Literature Association.
Prior to joining Heinz, Dr. Fitzsimmons was the Assistant Director of the Writing and Communication Program (2018-2019) and a Marion L. Brittain Fellow (2015-2019) in the school of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There, she earned a certificate in Digital Pedagogy and won the WCP's 2019 Award for Excellence in Pedagogy.
Dr. Fitzsimmons holds a PhD in English from the University of Florida with a concentration in children's and young adult literature and culture. Her research interests include young adult fiction, digital humanities, speculative fiction, the process of canon formation, and bestseller lists. Her current book project A Woman's Place: Expertise, Canon Formation, and the Professionalization of Children's Literature, traces the development of children's librarianship, children's publishing, teaching, and children's literature scholarship from the 1880s to the present day. Her current digital humanities project uses stylometrics (computer-assisted analysis of linguistic style), network analysis, and data visualizations to examine Caroline Hewins's 1882 pamphlet "Books for the Young," which is often cited as the first canon-forming document of the children's literature field.
Job Titles:
- University Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Martin Gaynor is the E.J. Barone University Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and former Director of the Bureau of Economics at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Professor Gaynor's research focuses on competition and incentives in health care, and on antitrust policy.
He is one of the founders of the Health Care Cost Institute, an independent non-partisan nonprofit dedicated to advancing knowledge about U.S. health care spending, and served as the first Chair of its governing board. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an International Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon Dr. Gaynor held faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins and a number of other universities. He has been an invited visitor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Northwestern University, and the Toulouse School of Economics.
His research focuses on competition and antitrust policy, particularly in health care markets. He has written extensively on this topic, testified before Congress, and advised the governments of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and South Africa on competition issues in health care. Gaynor is on the Pennsylvania Governor's Health Advisory Board and co-chaired the state's workgroup on shoppable care. He has won a number of awards for his research, including the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Best Paper Award, the Victor R. Fuchs Research Award, the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation Health Care Research Award, the Kenneth J. Arrow Award, the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship (finalist), and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. Dr. Gaynor received his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego in 1977 and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1983.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Kenneth J. Arrow Award for Best Published Paper in Health Economics, 2017.
Member (elected), National Academy of Medicine, 2016.
Best Paper Award, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016.
Member (elected), National Academy of Social Insurance, 2015.
Finalist, Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship, 2014.
Victor R. Fuchs Research Award, 2007.
National Institute for Health Care Management Research Award, 2005.
Top 1000 Economists in the World, 1990-2000. https://ideas.repec.org/coupe.html
Top 5% of Authors, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc). https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all.html
Top 100 Health Economics Authors, 1969-2010. (Wagstaff, A. and A.J. Culyer, Journal of Health Economics, 2012, 31, 2, 406-439.)
Top 50 Health Economics Authors, 1991-2000. (Chang, C. and R. Rubin, Health Economics, 2003, 12:5 403-414.)
Kenneth J. Arrow Award for Best Published Paper in Health Economics, 1996.
Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1995-1997.
First Independent Research Support and Transition (FIRST) Award, National Institute of Mental Health, 1990-1993.
Dissertation Grant, National Center for Health Services Research, 1981.
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- Director, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
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- Assistant Professor of Information Systems
- Faculty Expert Finder
George Chen is an assistant professor of information systems at Heinz College and an affiliated faculty member of the Machine Learning Department. He works on machine learning for healthcare and for information systems in developing countries. In these applications, his work revolves around forecasting, such as predicting how long a patient will stay in a hospital, or when and where farmers in rural India should sell their crops.
George Chen is an assistant professor of information systems at Heinz College and an affiliated faculty member of the Machine Learning Department. He works on machine learning for healthcare and for information systems in developing countries. In these applications, his work revolves around forecasting, such as predicting how long a patient will stay in a hospital, or when and where farmers in rural India should sell their crops. To produce forecasts, George typically uses nonparametric methods that, instead of specifying a model for the data in advance, let the data decide on what model to use, essentially through an election-like process where each data point casts a vote. Since these methods inform interventions that can be costly and affect people's well-being, ensuring that predictions are reliable and interpretable is essential. To this end, in addition to developing nonparametric predictors, George also produces theory for when and why they work, and identifies forecast evidence that would be helpful to practitioners for decision making.
George obtained his S.M. (2012), E.E. (2014), and Ph.D. (2015) degrees from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT, where he was supported by an NSF fellowship, an NDSEG fellowship, and a Siebel Scholarship. His Ph.D. dissertation on nonparametric machine learning methods for analyzing social data and medical images won MIT's George Sprowls award for best thesis in computer science. He previously completed his B.S. (2010) at UC Berkeley with dual majors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and Engineering Mathematics and Statistics. He enjoys teaching and has taught for courses at UC Berkeley, MIT, and in Jerusalem at a summer program MEET that brings together Israeli and Palestinian high school students. George has won teaching awards at both UC Berkeley and MIT, including MIT's top teaching award for graduate students, the Goodwin Medal (2015).
Greenwood, Peter W., Jonathan P. Caulkins, Jennifer S. Wong, and Sherry Cicchetti. 2003. The Deschutes County Community Youth Investment Project: An Experiment in Delinquency Prevention Financing. Greenwood and Associates, Agoura, CA.
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- II University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy
Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and the Tepper School of Business.
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- CMU Heinz College Dean Ramayya Krishnan Receives 2018 Bright Internet Award ( 12 - 26 - 2018 )
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- Founding Partner, Blazar Ventures
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- Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science / Indiana University
Jonathan P. Caulkins is the H. Guyford Stever University Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Caulkins specializes in systems analysis of problems pertaining to drugs, crime, terror, violence and prevention, work that earned him the David Kershaw Award from the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, a Robert Wood Johnson Health Investigator Award and the INFORMS President's Award. Issues surrounding cannabis legalization have been a focus in recent years, and he recently co-authored the 2 nd edition of his book Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press). His other interests include optimal control, reputation and brand management, human trafficking, and black markets. He has taught quantitative decision-making on four continents to students from 50 countries at every level from undergraduates to Ph.D. students and executive education. Dr. Caulkins has authored or co-authored more than 140 refereed articles and 10 books. He is a past Co-director of RAND's Drug Policy Research Center, founding Director of RAND's Pittsburgh office and continues to work through RAND on a variety of projects. Dr. Caulkins received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in systems science from Washington University, an S.M. in electrical engineering and computer science and doctorate in operations research, both from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Courses Taught
90-722 - Management Science I: Optimization & Multicriteria Methods
90-760 - Management Science II
94-833 - Decision Analysis and Multicriteria Decision Making
95-760 - Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Job Titles:
- Faculty Expert Finder
- Professor of Economics and Public Policy ( Joint Appointment With the Tepper School of Business )
Karen Clay is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.
She holds courtesy appointments at the Tepper School of Business and in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, is a Senior Fellow at the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon, is an affiliated faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Law, and is a research associate at the NBER.
Professor Clay's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Sloan Foundation. Her work has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, and American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, Karen Clay was an assistant professor at the University of Toronto.
Courses Taught
95-710 - Economic Analysis
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Executive Director, Metro21: Smart Cities Institute
- Faculty Expert Finder
Karen Lightman is Executive Director of Metro21: Smart Cities Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Karen is an internationally recognized leader in building and supporting communities based on emerging technologies. She is well-regarded in the MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) industry, having helped start and then lead MEMS & Sensors Industry Group (MSIG), the largest industry consortium solely focused on MEMS and sensors. Under her leadership, MSIG covered every sector of the MEMS value chain and successfully orchestrated numerous annual international conferences, workshops and tradeshows. Karen led the successful acquisition of MSIG by SEMI, the world's largest semiconductor association. Karen has expertise with commercializing academic research, building industry-based consortiums and strategically leading teams to explore market-based opportunities. Her diverse background spans the consumer, military, healthcare, manufacturing, and automotive sectors. Karen is ranked by EETimes as one of the top 25 "Women in Tech." She is a passionate advocate and spokesperson for technology solutions to real-world problems and has held several board positions and is currently treasurer on the board of the MetroLab Network.
Karen has a BA from the University of Vermont (UVM) and a MS in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College. She and her family reside in Pittsburgh, PA.
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- Chief Operating Officer and SVP of Academic Affairs ( President and CEO - Elect ) Cleveland Institute of Art
Caulkins, Jonathan P. and Keith Humphreys. 2018. Drug dealers among us: Look for those wearing lab coats or pinstripe suites. The Hill. February 6 th, http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/372242-drug-dealers-among-us-look-for-those-wearing-lab-coats-or-pinstripe-suits.
Caulkins, Jonathan P. 2018. With opioids, death is a symptom and unity is the cure. The Hill. January 2 nd, http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/366769-with-opioids-death-is-a-symptom-and-unity-is-the-cure.
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- Chief Executive Officer, KET Solutions, LLC / Board Director, Speaker, Coach
"When it was announced to the faculty that Krishnan was accepting a third term, I've never heard such applause in that room." Read more about Dean Ramayya Krishnan's impact on Heinz College.
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- Teaching Professor of Architecture, Information Systems and Public Policy
Kristen Kurland is a Teaching Professor of Architecture, Information Systems, and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and School of Architecture. She also holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of the College of Engineering at CMU.
In addition to her academic appointments, Professor Kurland served as President of Carnegie Mellon University's Andrew Carnegie Society and, as its President, was a University Trustee from 2014-2016. She is also one of three community members serving on the Distribution Committee of the McCune Foundation.
Prior to joining CMU's faculty, Kristen Kurland was president of a local consulting firm that aided numerous organizations in implementing computer technology and strategic planning into their work environment. Her clients included architects, engineers, hospitals, universities, corporations, as well as local, state, and federal government agencies.
Professor Kurland's research focuses on interdisciplinary collaborations in health, the built environment, geospatial analysis, and 3D data visualization. She works closely with CMU colleagues and students on projects addressing equity, health, urban design, economic development, sustainability, big data, and smart cities issues. She actively collaborates with healthcare, non-profit, and industry organizations in Pittsburgh and worldwide.
Her teaching at CMU includes building information modeling (BIM), computer aided design (CAD), 3D visualization, computer aided facility management (CAFM), and geographic information systems (GIS). At the Heinz College, she also teaches Enterprise Data Analytics to executive physicians in the Master of Medical Management (MMM) program and is a faculty advisor for Heinz College Health Care Management students and projects. She has a strong interest in distance education and has been teaching through this medium since 1999. Her distance courses are taught in Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Heinz College MMM, Master Science of Information Technology (MSIT), and Adelaide Australia programs.
She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2020 Carlow University Women of Spirit award; the 2012 Esri Health Communications Award; the 2005 Heinz College Martcia Wade Teaching Award; the 1998, 2000, and 2003 ARCHIBUS, Inc., Outstanding Educator Award; and the 2004 Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Special Achievement in GIS Award.
Kristen Kurland is also the co-author of a series of best-selling GIS workbooks that are used by universities, colleges, and self-learners. She is a keynote speaker at conferences nationally and internationally. Her accomplishments were the focus of chapter in a recent book by Esri Press highlighting twenty-two global women of influence in GIS.
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- Faculty Expert Finder
- Professor of Economics and Public Policy ( Joint Appointment With the Social and Decision Sciences Department )
- Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
Lee Branstetter joined the Heinz College faculty in 2006 as a tenured associate professor. He has a joint appointment with the Department of Social and Decision Sciences (SDS).
Branstetter is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. From 2011-2012, he served as the Senior Economist for International Trade and Investment for the President's Council of Economic Advisors. Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon, he was the Daniel J. Stanton Associate Professor of Business and the Director of the International Business Program at Columbia Business School. Branstetter has also taught at the University of California, Davis, where he was the Director of the East Asian Studies Program, and at Dartmouth College. He has served as a consultant to the OECD Science and Technology Directorate, the Advanced Technology Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the World Bank. In recent years, Branstetter has been a research fellow of the Keio University Global Security Research Institute and a visiting fellow of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry in Japan. Branstetter holds a B.A. in Economics and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (MMSS) from Northwestern University, and he earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard in 1996.
Courses Taught
90-745 - Methods of Policy Analysis: Future of Work
90-752 - Rise of the Asian Economies
90-860 - Policy in a Global Economy
"Facing the Climate Change Challenge in a Global Economy." Branstetter, L., and Pizer, W., in R. Feenstra and A. Taylor (eds.), Globalization in an Age of Crisis, 2014, NBER and University of Chicago Press.
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- Dean 's Associate Professor of Information Systems
- Faculty Expert Finder
Leman Akoglu joined the Heinz College faculty as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2016. She also holds a courtesy appointment in the Computer Science Department (CSD) and the Machine Learning Department (MLD) of School of Computer Science (SCS).
Akoglu is the Heinz College Dean's Associate Professor of Information Systems. Prior to joining Heinz College, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University since receiving her Ph.D. from CSD/SCS of Carnegie Mellon University in 2012.
Dr. Akoglu's research interests span a wide range of data mining and machine learning topics with a focus on algorithmic problems arising in graph mining, pattern discovery, social and information networks, and especially anomaly mining; outlier, fraud, and event detection. At Heinz, Dr. Akoglu directs the Data Analytics Techniques Algorithms (DATA) Lab.
Dr. Akoglu's research has won 7 publication awards; Best Research Paper at SIAM SDM 2019, Best Student Machine Learning Paper Runner-up at ECML PKDD 2018, Best Paper Runner-up at SIAM SDM 2016, Best Research Paper at SIAM SDM 2015, Best Paper at ADC 2014, Best Paper at PAKDD 2010, and Best Knowledge Discovery Paper at ECML PKDD 2009. She also holds 3 U.S. patents filed by IBM T. J. Watson Research Labs.
Dr. Akoglu is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award (2015) and US Army Research Office Young Investigator award (2013). Her research has been supported by the NSF, US ARO, DARPA, Adobe, Facebook, Northrop Grumman, PNC Bank, and PwC.
Dr. Akoglu is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award (2015) and US Army Research Office Young Investigator award (2013). Her research has been supported by the NSF, US ARO, DARPA, Adobe, Facebook, Northrop Grumman, PNC Bank, and PwC.
Please also see Dr. Akoglu's webpage and DATA Lab research group page for more on active research topics, ongoing projects, publications, and other up to date information.
Caulkins, Jonathan P., Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Jeremy Arkes, Peter Reuter, Susan Paddock, Martin Iguchi, and Jack Riley. 2004. The Price and Purity of Illicit Drugs: 1981 Through the Second Quarter of 2003. Report prepared by RAND and published by the Office of National Drug Control Policy as Publication # NCJ 207768, November.
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- Professor of Information Technology and Marketing, Heinz College and Tepper School of Business
Michael D. Smith is a Professor of Information Technology and Marketing at Carnegie Mellon University.
He received his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) and his Masters of Science in Telecommunications Science from the University of Maryland, and received his Ph.D. in Management Science and Information Technology from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Professor Smith's research uses economic and statistical techniques to analyze firm and consumer behavior in online markets - specifically markets for digital information and digital media products. His research in this area has been published in leading Management Science, Economics, and Marketing journals and covered by professional journals including The Harvard Business Review and The Sloan Management Review and press outlets including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Wired and Business Week.
Professor Smith has received several awards for his teaching and research including the National Science Foundation's prestigious CAREER Research Award, the 2009 and 2004 Best Teacher Awards in Carnegie Mellon's Masters of Information Systems Management program, the best published paper award runner-up for Information Systems Research in 2006, and best paper nominations at the International Conference on Information Systems and the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. He was also recently selected as one of the top 100 "emerging engineering leaders in the United States" by the National Academy of Engineering. Professor Smith currently serves as a Senior Editor at Information Systems Research, and has previously served as an Associate Editor at Management Science and Management Information Systems Quarterly.
Prior to receiving his Ph.D., Professor Smith worked extensively in the telecommunications and information systems industries, first with GTE in their laboratories, telecommunications, and satellite business units and subsequently with Booz Allen and Hamilton as a member of their telecommunications client service team. While with GTE, Professor Smith was awarded a patent for research applying fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence techniques to the design and operation of telecommunications networks.
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- President, Elzey Consulting Group, LLC / President, South Carolina State University ( Retired )