EPP - Key Persons
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- Communications Manager / Department
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- Administrative Coordinator / Department
- Administrative Coordinator, Engineering and Public Policy
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- Research Scientist, Critical Technology Initiative
Dr. Amaral earned his Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on the European international competitiveness landscape.
He has been helping to build capabilities within the European Commission to monitor the impact of Supply Chain disruptions. Together with the Commission's Chief Economist Team, he has built an early warning mechanism to monitor supply chain disruptions. Currently, the team is working on extending such a tool to assess possible supply chain disruptions in net-zero Green Technologies, such as photovoltaic solar panels, wind turbines (onshore and offshore), electrical vehicle batteries, heat pumps, fuel cells, hydrogen electrolyzers.
In addition, over the past five years, Dr. Amaral has specialized in Industry 4.0 maturity models and implementation of critical technologies in Small and Medium Enterprises, their integration in Industry 4.0, and how these companies can shape themselves to reap the full benefits of their inherent digital transformation.
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University
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- Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Outreach / Distinguished Service Professor / Department
- Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Outreach, College of Engineering / Distinguished Service Professor, Engineering and Public Policy
Alaine M. Allen is an educator who intentionally works to uplift the voices of and create opportunities for individuals from groups historically marginalized in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) environments. She is committed to creating a culture of inclusive excellence that enables the entire community to thrive.
Allen's professional experiences include teaching high school physics, directing pre-college STEM and undergraduate programs in engineering, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams as a co-principal investigator (Co-PI) of projects funded by the National Science Foundation, and partnering with the broader community. Allen is a member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA), the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Allen has served as a NAMEPA leader at the regional and national levels and as a campus advisor for collegiate chapters of NSBE and SHPE.
In recognition of her work as an educator, Allen received a University of Pittsburgh Honoring Our Hero award in the Swanson School Engineering in 2021, the Art Ramicone Unsung Hero Award from the University of Pittsburgh Division of Student Affairs in 2019, the Lottie P. Edwards Community Award for STEM from the Mt. Ararat Community Center in 2016, the National Society of Black Engineers Golden Torch Minority Engineering Program Director of the Year Award in 2012, and the Chancellor's Affirmative Action Award from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011.
Allen has a BS degree in physics education from Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, as well as a M.Ed. degree in policy, planning, and evaluation and an Ed.D. degree in higher education management, both from the University of Pittsburgh.
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- Director of CAPS
- Director of the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies
Albert Presto has been named the director of the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies (CAPS) at Carnegie Mellon University.
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- Trustee Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy / Department
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- Distinguished Service Professor / Department
- Distinguished Service Professor, Engineering and Public Policy
Alex Hills and his team built the world's first big Wi-Fi network. As described in his book, Wi-Fi and the Bad Boys of Radio, the team overcame major obstacles to create the first wireless campus. It was an unheard of idea when Hills started the project in 1993. The new network, which came to be called "Wireless Andrew," was the prototype used by many others to build Wi-Fi networks now in use around the world.
Before he joined Carnegie Mellon, Hills spent several years living in remote areas of Alaska and working to provide modern broadcasting and telecommunications services to the many small villages spread across the big state. He fought Alaska's difficult weather and terrain, and helped to persuade some reluctant executives, in order to make the services possible. He tells of these adventures in his new book, Finding Alaska's Villages: And Connecting Them.
Hills is actively involved in international development. As a senior advisor to the "Technology Consulting in the Global Community" program, he works with Carnegie Mellon students on a broad array of projects in developing nations. This work is described in his book Geeks on a Mission. It was the subject of his keynote speech at the 2015 Information Networking Institute graduation ceremony.
Hills has served as vice provost and chief information officer at Carnegie Mellon, founding director of the university's Information Networking Institute, Alaska's Deputy Commissioner of Administration and chief telecommunications official, and a U.S. Army officer and company commander in South Korea.
Alfred Blumstein is the J. Erik Jonsson University Professor Of Urban Systems And Operations Research, Emeritus and is affiliated with the Engineering and Public Policy Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Heinz College in 1969, 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.
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 has also 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. 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.
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- Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Secretary Anthony Foxx has been appointed distinguished executive in residence at Carnegie Mellon University for the 2018-19 academic year.
Bryan Parno, Kavčić-Moura Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Computer Science, has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Cybersecurity Award for Practice for his contributions to the theory and practice of end-to-end secure systems.
Carnegie Mellon was awarded a $500,000 planning grant from the Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies (ARISE) to analyze the skills of the regional workforce and develop tools to match workers with jobs.
Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 31st Annual Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium. Held at the Catamaran Resort Hotel & Spa in San Diego from February 26 through March 1, the event fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security.
Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium. Held in Anaheim, CA, on August 9-11, the event brings together experts from around the world, who will highlight the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.
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- Executive Education Program Manager / Department
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- Hamerschlag University Professor Emeritus
- Hamerschlag University Professor Emeritus / Director, Traffic21 Institute / Department
- Hamerschlag University Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, Heinz College / Director, Traffic21 Institute
- Hamerschlag University Professor of Engineering Emeritus
- Professor
Chris Hendrickson is a Hamerschlag University professor emeritus, the director of the Traffic 21 Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the editor-in-chief to the ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering. Hendrickson's research, teaching, and consulting are in the general area of engineering planning and management, including design for the environment, system performance, construction project management, finance and computer applications. Hendrickson has co-authored five books: Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services: An Input-Output Approach (Resources for the Future, 2006), Project Management for Construction (Prentice-Hall, 1989), Transportation Investment and Pricing Principles (John Wiley & Sons, 1984), Knowledge Based Process Planning for Construction and Manufacturing (Academic Press, 1989), and Concurrent Computer Integrated Building Design (Prentice-Hall, 1994). In addition, Hendrickson has published numerous articles in the professional literature.
Hendrickson's education includes: a bachelor's and M.S. from Stanford University, a M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hendrickson has received the 2009 Faculty Award from the CMU Association (2009), the Turner Lecture Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (2002), the Fenves Systems Research Award from the Institute of Complex Engineering Systems (2002), AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellowships (2000-2002), a Lucent/NSF Industrial Ecology Fellowship (1998), the ASCE Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award (1994), the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award of the ASCE Pittsburgh Section (1990), the ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Award (1989), the Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1987), and a Rhodes Scholarship (1973). Hendrickson is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007), a distinguished member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (2007), and an emeritus member of the Transportation Research Board (2004).
Hendrickson's professional career includes research contributions in computer-aided engineering, transportation systems, construction project management, and environmental systems. Central themes in Hendrickson's work are creating systems-wide perspective and balancing engineering and management considerations. His doctoral work included the development of a travel distance formula for random stops that is still in use for home service planning (1978). He pioneered models of dynamic traffic equilibrium, including time-of-day departure demand models. He was an early contributor to the development of probabilistic network analysis for lifeline planning after seismic events. His work in construction project management emphasized the importance of the owner's viewpoint throughout the project lifecycle, summarized in his text (with T. Au), Project Management for Construction, now available on the internet. With others at CMU's Engineering Design Research Center, he developed a pioneering, experimental building design system in the early 1990s that spanned concept initialization through construction scheduling and animation. Since 1994, he has concentrated on green design, exploring the environmental life cycle consequences of alternative product, and process designs. He has contributed software tools and methods for sustainable construction, pollution prevention, and environmental management, including life cycle analysis software, and a widely-cited analysis of the life cycle consequences of lead acid battery powered vehicles.
Hamerschlag University Professor of Engineering Emeritus Chris Hendrickson explores the impacts and lessons from COVID-19 for the transportation engineering profession and how they can help future planning.
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- Assistant Research Professor / Department
- Assistant Research Professor, Engineering and Public Policy
- Contributor
- Expert
Christophe Combemale's research focuses on the implications of technology choices and process design for skill demand, and on workforce supply chain levers to meet industry skill demand needs. He is interested in how regional and national labor supply may constrain economic productivity and innovation, and solutions that enhance outcomes for workers and firms.
Combemale is an expert contributor on labor and technology issues for an NSF-funded pilot program seeking to develop a National Network for Critical Technology Assessment. The program objective is to develop assessment capabilities for critical technologies for U.S. competitiveness and present insights to U.S. legislators. He also serves as a consultant to the Allegheny County Department of Human Services on workforce development and strategic programs, such as rate-setting for large-scale Medicaid reimbursements for behavioral health services.
In addition, Combemale has a research appointment at the Block Center for Technology and Society at CMU's Heinz College.
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- Director / Trustee Professor / Department
- Scott Institute Director
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- Gendell Associate Professor of Energy Systems and Public Policy / Nicholas School of the Environment
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- BT Professor of Management / Saïd Business School
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- Research Scientist, Critical Technology Strategy Initiative
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- Director / Center for the Study
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- Professor of Technology and Social Change Emeritus
- Technology and Social Change Emeritus, Social & Decision Sciences
Trained in both engineering and history, Professor Hounshell studies innovation at the intersection of science, technology, and industry. His work includes extensive studies of industrial research and development, the development of manufacturing technology in the United States, and the role of independent inventors and entrepreneurs in the development of technology.
Hounshell is the author of the award-winning books, From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States, and (with John Kenly Smith, Jr.) Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont: Du Pont R&D, 1902-1980. He is currently working with Erica Fuchs and Hassan Khan on a study of the semiconductor industry, U.S. technology policy, and cooperative research at the end of Moore's Law, among other topics.
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- Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs
- Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs / Department
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- Administrative Assistant / Department
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- Senior Academic Coordinator / Department
- Senior Academic Coordinator, Assistant to Deanna Matthews
- Senior Academic Coordinator, Engineering and Public Policy
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- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Education
- Engineering and Public
As a behavioral scientist, Doron Cohen focuses on the experimental and computational analysis of behavior, behavioral contexts, and learning. Cohen's research focuses on clarifying some of the complexities of everyday decision-making processes and how these are shaped by various incentive systems. By integrating computational cognitive modeling with structural modeling of environments, he aims to predict the long-term impacts of policy changes and support the evaluation and design of effective interventions. His diverse body of work includes the design of safety measures, taxation systems, incentivization programs, and human-computer interactions.
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- Senior Associate Dean for Computing Initiatives / College of Engineering, Design and Computing, University of Colorado Denver
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- Assistant Professor of Data Analytics
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- Alumni Chair Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science Emeritus
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- Associate Professor Valerie Karplus
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- Associate Research Professor Emeritus / Department
- Associate Research Professor Emeritus, Engineering and Public Policy
- Education
Elizabeth Casman is an Associate Research Professor, Emeritus in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and a member of the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University. Casman's research encompasses the evaluation of the regulatory framework for emerging technologies, such as hydraulic fracturing, genetic engineering, and manmade nanomaterials. She also works in the areas of water and health connections in developing countries, protection of water resources, infectious disease transmission dynamics, biotechnology policy, and microbial risk assessment.
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- President
- Director of the Critical Technology Initiative at Carnegie Mellon
- Director of the Critical Technology Initiative Opens
- Engineering and Public Policy Professor
- Professor
Erica R.H. Fuchs is Director of the Critical Technology Initiative Opens in new window at Carnegie Mellon University and a Kavčić-Moura Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. She is also faculty at Carnegie Mellon by courtesy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, and a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Fuchs' research focuses on the development, commercialization, and global manufacturing of emerging technologies, and national policy in that context.
As Director of the Critical Technology Initiative at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Fuchs is bringing together interdisciplinary expertise across five schools to pioneer how advanced analytics can ensure we smartly invest in and enact policies to achieve competitiveness in technologies critical to national security, economic competitiveness, and the well-being of all citizens. As part of this effort, Dr. Fuchs catalyzed and served as founding director of the National Network for Critical Technology Assessment Opens in new window, which mobilized academic thought-leaders from more than 13 Tier I research universities across the country to develop a vision for critical technology assessment, including current capabilities (and demonstrations thereof), gaps, and the investment needed to realize that vision. Their year-long work culminated in the report Securing America's Future: A Framework for Critical Technology Assessment Opens in new window. She was previously the founding Faculty Director of Carnegie Mellon's Manufacturing Futures Initiative - an initiative across six schools, which today is an endowed institute.
Dr. Fuchs currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Natcast, the non-profit that oversees the National Semiconductor Technology Center; on M.I.T. Corporation's Visiting Committee for M.I.T.'s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society; and on the Advisory Editorial Board for Research Policy. Dr. Fuchs has testified in Congressional hearings in both the House and Senate and had her work covered, among others, by Axios, National Public Radio, Bloomberg, and the New York Times. She completed her Ph.D. in Engineering Systems (2006), her Master's in Technology Policy (2003), and her Bachelor's in Materials Science and Engineering (1999), all from M.I.T., and spent 1999-2000 as a fellow at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Beijing, China. Dr. Fuchs grew up and attended K-12 in the Reading Public School District in Reading, PA. In her free time, she enjoys running, skiing, trekking, yoga, and spending time with her husband and two children.
Sakti, A., Azevedo, I., Fuchs, E., Michalek, J., Gallagher, K., and Whitacre, J. 2017. Consistency and robustness of forecasting for emerging technologies: The case of Li-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Energy Policy. Vol 106, July 2017, p. 415-426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.03.063 Opens in new window
Sakti, A., Michalek, J., Fuchs, E., and Whitacre, J. 2014. A techno-economic analysis and optimization of Li-ion batteries for personal vehicle electrification. Journal of Power Sources. 273: January 2015 pp. 966-980. 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.09.072
Fuchs, E. and Karplus, V. 2021. A New Approach to Coordinate U.S. Critical Supply Chains in Crisis. Policy Brief. Insights derived from: "Lessons from COVID medical supply chains for critical technologies: Real-time situational data infrastructure and adaptive manufacturing ecosystems." Chatham House Rule Workshop. Carnegie Mellon University. September 10, 2021. Policy Brief Opens in new window
Professor Erica Fuchs has been nominated by President Biden to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.
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- Director
- Principal Consultant
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- Forbes Marshall Chair Professor / Department of Energy Science and Engineering
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- Dean and Professor / Imperial College
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University
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- Canada Research Chair and Professor
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- Roy & Caryl Cline Chair of Engineering / Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming / Associate Professor / Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming
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- Research Scientist / US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, U.S. Department of Defense
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- Department
- Professor Emeritus
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- Assistant Professor of Sustainable Technology
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- Executive Director / Center for Study
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- Senior Research Scientist, Critical Technology Initiative
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- Emeritus Professor at Carnegie Mellon University 's Tepper School of Business
- Professor at Carnegie Mellon University 's Tepper School of Business
Jay Apt is an emeritus professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and in the CMU Department of Engineering and Public Policy. He has authored more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, as well as two books and several book chapters. He has published opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Apt received an A.B. in physics from Harvard College in 1971 and a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member of the Electric Power Research Institute Board of Directors from 2007 through 2013. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and the Metcalf Lifetime Achievement Award for significant contributions to engineering.
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- Trustee Professor in Energy / Department
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- Emeritus
- Department
- Professor Emeritus
- Professor Emeritus, Engineering and Public Policy, Tepper School of Business
Jay Apt is an emeritus professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and in the CMU Department of Engineering and Public Policy. He has authored more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, as well as two books and several book chapters. He has published opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Apt received an A.B. in physics from Harvard College in 1971 and a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member of the Electric Power Research Institute Board of Directors from 2007 through 2013. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and the Metcalf Lifetime Achievement Award for significant contributions to engineering.
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- Caliguiri Professor Emeritus / Department
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- Dana and David Dornsife Chair, Wrigley Institute Director, Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences / Department of Psychology, University of Southern California
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- Lead Academic Coordinator / Department
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- Associate Professor
- Department
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- IEEE Fellow
- Professor in CMU 's Software
- Professor of Computation, Organizations, and Society / Department
- Professor of Computation, Organizations, and Society, Software and Societal Systems Department
Experience: Kathleen M. Carley is a professor of computer science in the Software and Societal Systems Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, IEEE Fellow, and director of the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) and director of the center for Informed DEmocracy And Social-cybersecurity (IDeaS), both at Carnegie Mellon University. She joined Carnegie Mellon in 1984 as assistant professor of sociology and information systems. In 1990 she became associate professor of sociology and organizations, in 1998 professor of sociology, organizations, and information technology, and in 2002, attained her current role as professor of omputation, organization, and society. She is also the CEO of Carley Technologies Inc., aka Netanomics.
Carley's research combines cognitive science, sociology, organization science, and computer science to address complex social and organizational issues. Her most notable research contribution was the establishment of Dynamic Network Analysis (DNA) and the associated theory and methodology for examining large high-dimensional time variant networks. Her research on DNA has resulted in tools for analyzing large-scale dynamic networks and various multi-agent simulation systems. She has led the development of tools for extracting sentiment, social and semantic networks, and cues from textual data (AutoMap & NetMapper), simulating epidemiological models (BioWar), and simulating changes in beliefs and practice given information campaigns (Construct). Her ORA system is one of the premier network analysis and visualization technologies, used worldwide, supporting reasoning about geo-spatial and dynamic high-dimensional network data. It includes special features for handling small and big data, social media data, and network dynamics. Illustrative projects include assessment of disinformation and social cyber-security threats, IRS outreach, impact of NextGen on airline re-rerouting, counter-terrorism modeling, counter-narcotics modeling, health analytics, social media analytics of elections, and crises such as Benghazi, Darfur, the Arab Spring, COVID-19.
Education: Carley received SB degrees in economics and in political acience from M.I.T., and a Ph.D. degree in sociology from Harvard University, and an HD from the University of Zurich.
Publications: Carley has more than 400 scientific publications, including: "Characterization and Comparison of Russian and Chinese Disinformation Campaigns" (2020), "Different Faces of False: The spread and curtailment of false information in the Black Panther Twitter discussion" (2019), "Social Cybersecurity: An Emerging National Security Requirement" (2019), "Online extremism and the communities that sustain it: Detecting the ISIS supporting community on Twitter" (2017), "Transition Networks in a Cohort of Patients with Congestive Heart Failure" (2015).
Honors: Carley is an IEEE Fellow. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich in 2019. She is the recipient of the USGA Academic Award at GEOINT 2018 for her work on geo-spatially enabled dynamic network analytics, the Allen Newell award for research excellence, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sociology and Computers Section of the ASA (2001), and the Simmel Award for advances in social networks from INSNA (2011). She has served as president of the North American Association for Computational and Organizational Simulation (2003-2004) and the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (1999-2000). She has served as a task force member of the Defense Science Board and the Geographic Information Science Panel of the Strategic Command. She has served on multiple National Research Council panels including modeling for the military, big data, geo-spatial analytics, and the decadel survey for the social sciences and was a member of the DHS-HSSTAC.
Kathleen Carley, professor in CMU's Software and Societal Systems Department, spoke to WIRED about her research, which has led to several bot detection tools, including BotHunter and BotBuster.
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- Associate Research Scholar
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- Associate Engineer / RAND Corporation
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- Financial Assistant / Department
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- Dean, Cheung Kong Chair Distinguished
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- Director
- CyLab Director
- Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies / FORE Systems University
Lorrie Faith Cranor is the Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies of CyLab and the FORE Systems University Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She also directs the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) and co-directs the MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program. In 2016 she served as Chief Technologist at the US Federal Trade Commission, working in the office of Chairwoman Ramirez. She is also a co-founder of Wombat Security Technologies, Inc, a security awareness training company that was acquired by Proofpoint.
She has authored more than 200 research papers on online privacy, usable security, and other topics. She has played a key role in building the usable privacy and security research community, having co-edited the seminal book Security and Usability (O'Reilly 2005) and founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). She also chaired the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at the W3C and authored the book Web Privacy with P3P (O'Reilly 2002). She has served on a number of boards and working groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors, the Computing Research Association Board of Directors, the Aspen Institute Cybersecurity Group, and on the editorial boards of several journals.
In her younger days she was honored as one of the top 100 innovators 35 or younger by Technology Review magazine. More recently she was elected to the ACM CHI Academy, named an ACM Fellow for her contributions to usable privacy and security research and education, and named an IEEE Fellow for her contributions to privacy engineering. She has also received an Alumni Achievement Award from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, the 2018 ACM CHI Social Impact Award, the 2018 International Association of Privacy Professionals Privacy Leadership Award, and (with colleagues) the 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice.
She was previously a researcher at AT&T-Labs Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University. She holds a doctorate in Engineering and Policy from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2012-13 she spent her sabbatical as a fellow in the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University where she worked on fiber arts projects that combined her interests in privacy and security, quilting, computers, and technology. She practices yoga, plays soccer, walks to work, and runs after her three children.
CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor spoke with Dark Reading about the importance of securing one's devices and accounts, regardless of encryption protections companies like Gmail install in their software.
CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor was quoted in POLITICO regarding the recent "Signalgate" controversies generated by national security advisors, as she spoke about the importance of government communications being secured against attackers.
CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor was quoted in The Wall Street Journal about how employees often prioritize convenience over security at work.
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- Events and Web Content Coordinator / Department
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- Director of Policy Engagement / Department
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- Department
- Professor Emeritus
- Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy
Marija Ilic joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University as a full professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering Public Policy. She has been a Senior Research Scientist at the EECS Department at MIT since 1987. Her interest is in control and design of large-scale systems. From September 1999 until March 2001, she was a Program Director for Control, Networks and Computational Intelligence at the National Science Foundation. Prior to her years at MIT, she was a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Cornell University. She is a recipient of the First Presidential Young Investigator Award for Power Systems. She is also an IEEE Fellow and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
She has co-authored several books on the subject of large-scale electric power systems: Ilic and Zaborszky, Dynamics and Control of Large Electric Power Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000; Ilic, Galiana, and Fink (eds.), Power Systems Restructuring: Engineering and Economics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, printing 2000; Allen and Ilic, Price-Based Commitment decisions in the Electricity Markets, Springer-Verlag London Limited, 1999; Ilic and Liu, Hierarchical Power Systems Control: Its Value in a Changing Industry, Springer-Verlag London Limited, 1996; Skantze and Ilic, Valuation, Hedging and Speculation in Competitive Electricity Markets: A Fundamental Approach, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
In 2021, Professor Emerita Ilic was honored by election to the National Academy of Engineers "for contributions to electric power system analysis and control."
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- Environmental Engineer ( CEERD - EP - R )
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- Professor Emeritus
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- Founder and Chief Executive Officer / Lumina Decision Systems, Inc.
Medinat Akindele, a CEE Ph.D. student, was recently awarded a Thomas and Maria Fok Presidential Fellowship. Under the mentorship of Professor Peter Adams, Akindele is spearheading the development of accessible and globally applicable air quality models to evaluate the health ramifications of air pollution.
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- Senior Fellow / East - West Center
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- Executive Director of the Electric Power Research Institute
- Executive Director, the Open Energy Outlook ( OEO ) Initiative / Department
- Executive Director, the Open Energy Outlook ( OEO ) Initiative, Engineering and Public Policy
- Research Interests
Mike Blackhurst is the executive director of the Electric Power Research Institute. Blackhurst's research relates to integrating engineering and social science methods to improve how technology is represented in policy decisions.
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- Professor of Law Emeritus Founding Director / Institute for Energy
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- Executive Director, Critical Technology Initiative
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- Senior Administrative Assistant / Department
- Senior Administrative Assistant, Engineering and Public Policy
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- Professor
- Thomas Lord Professor, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Engineering and Public Policy Director, Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research
Neil Donahue is a professor in the Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He also directs the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research. He seeks to understand how Earth's atmosphere works, and how humans affect the atmosphere. One of his objectives is to help all graduating Carnegie Mellon students understand the climate problem and to apply their outstanding problem solving skills to solutions of this enormous challenge. He is a member of numerous professional societies, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and an editor with several academic journals.
Donahue's research group focuses on the behavior of organic compounds in Earth's atmosphere. They are world experts in studying what happens to compounds from both natural sources and human activity when they are emitted into the atmosphere. Recently his research has focused on the origin and transformations of very small organic particles, which play a critical role in climate change and human health. Particles scatter light, influence clouds, and kill roughly 50,000 people each year in the US, mostly of heart attacks.
Donahue's father taught physics at Pitt, and Donahue received a B.S. in Physics from Brown University in 1985. He received a Ph.D. in meteorology from MIT in 1991, and spent nine years as a research scientist at Harvard before returning to Pittsburgh in 2000. He lives with his wife Maren Cooke and daughters Kielan and Innes in Squirrel Hill. They have three kW of photovoltaic solar panels on their roof. Donhaue is also an avid road cyclist; you may find him on one hill or another around town.
Neil Donahue is interested in the way that organic compounds participate in making the molecular clusters that grow into atmospheric particles.
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- Senior Academic Program Manager / Department
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- Lester and Judith Lave Professor in Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy / Department
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- Department Head and Professor
- Department Head and Professor, Software and Societal Systems Department / Professor, Engineering and Public Policy
- Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Nicolas Christin is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the School of Computer Science and the Department of Engineering & Public Policy. He is also a professor and department head in the Software and Societal Systems Department and a core faculty member in CyLab, the university-wide information security and privacy institute. He has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Christin holds a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from École Centrale Lille, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Virginia. He was a researcher in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, prior to joining Carnegie Mellon in 2005.
Nicolas Christin has been appointed as the next department head of S3D.
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- Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University 's Critical Technology Initiative
- Research Scientist, Critical Technology Initiative
Nikhil Kalathil is the Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives and a Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University's Critical Technology Initiative. He leads research on regional manufacturing ecosystems and capabilities. His research studies how regional capabilities and firm decisions about manufacturing location, product design, supply chains, and R&D investments aggregate to impact science and technology progress, as well as national and economic security objectives. His current research seeks to understand variation in regional support for short-term economic dynamism and how to construct more dynamic, resilient, and responsive supply chains in key technologies (semiconductors, drones, machining) that are capable of rapidly responding to novel shocks, scenarios, and needs. Dr. Kalathil's work specifically focuses on the role of regional institutions, clusters, and ecosystems in facilitating national strategic objectives and meeting sudden demand spikes. He serves as a Senior Advisor for Ecosystem Assessment for the American Manufacturing Communities Collaborative (AMCC), and previously worked at SRI International's Center for Innovation Strategy and Policy.
He completed his Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy (2024) from Carnegie Mellon University, his M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2019) from the University of California, Berkeley; and his B.A in Economics, Mathematics, and Politics (2014) from Oberlin College.
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- Assistant Professor of Sustainable Systems
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- Assistant to the Department Head
Patti Steranchak
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- Department
- Professor Emeritus
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- Associate Professor / Swanson School of Engineering
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- Assistant Professor of Economics
- Engineering and Public Policy Professor
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- Scott Institute Energy Fellows
- Trustee Professor / Department
- Trustee Professor, Engineering and Public Policy
Originally from Medellin - Colombia, Paulina Jaramillo is a naturalized citizen of the U.S., where she has lived more than half her life. She is currently a professor of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Jaramillo is also a fellow of the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and Research at CMU and a research affiliate of the Kigali Collaborative Research Center. She also holds a courtesy appointment in CMU Africa. Finally, Jaramillo is a lead author for the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report as part of Working Group III.
Jaramillo's past research focused on life cycle assessment of energy systems with an emphasis on climate change impacts and mitigation research. As a professor at CMU, she is currently involved in multi-disciplinary research projects to better understand the social, economic, and environmental implications of policy-driven changes in the operations of the energy system. Over the past five years, her research and education efforts have expanded to include issues related to energy access and development in the Global South. She has also worked to incorporate values and beliefs in energy planning in historically disenfranchised communities and to understand the implications of energy access in gender equity.
Jaramillo's interest in energy for the Global South stems from her firm belief that what happens in developing countries as they try to provide energy that supports development will have profound implications in global environmental systems. There is an opportunity, however, to build sustainable and equitable modern energy systems that benefit from decades of technological development and experience elsewhere while accounting for local conditions and stakeholder interests. Through her research, Jaramillo aims to create the knowledge that will be required to meet global energy needs and climate mitigation efforts.
EPP Professor Paulina Jaramillo is honing her policy outreach skills by participating in prestigious fellowship programs.
Engineering and Public Policy Professor Paulina Jaramillo completed the ELATES at Drexel fellowship-a national leadership development program for women in STEM fields in academia.
Engineering and public policy professor Paulina Jaramillo has been accepted into next year's ELATES fellowship program at Drexel University.
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- Department
- Education
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- Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Heinz College
Pedro Ferreira is a professor in the Heinz College and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.
His research work focuses on how people use technology to consume experience-goods and influence others to do so. These are inextricably linked to how firms behave and how public policies affect market structures. Ferreira's work focuses on the application of robust empirical identification methods to analyze large datasets obtained from organic in-vivo large-scale network-centric randomized experiments. His research spans two interrelated applied areas-the impact of information and communication technologies on education and peer-influence and consumption in the media industry. The bulk of his work is on medialytics, using big data analytics to understand the future of the media industry. Additionally, Ferreira has been studying competition, consumer churn, and switching costs in telecommunications.
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- Head
- Department Head
- Department Head, Engineering and Public Policy
- Professor in the Civil and Environmental
Peter Adams is a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and the Engineering and Public Policy Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Adams' research largely focuses on development of chemical transport models, especially the simulation of aerosol microphysical processes, ultrafine particles, and the formation of cloud condensation nuclei in global climate models. Areas of research have also included the effects of climate change on air quality, short-lived climate forcers, atmospheric ammonia and particulate matter formation from livestock operations, and the simulation organic particulate matter.
Adams was selected for a Fulbright grant to collaborate with researchers at the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate in Bologna, has been a Visiting Senior Research Scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Space Flight Center, and received the Sheldon K. Friedlander Award for outstanding doctoral thesis from the American Association for Aerosol Research. He has previously served on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee and the Allegheny County Health Department's Air Toxics New Guidelines Proposal Committee, as well as service to the American Association for Aerosol Research. His research is supported primarily by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense.
Adams received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, from Cornell University. He was awarded a Hertz Foundation Applied Science Fellowship for graduate study and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He also holds an associated faculty position in the Chemical Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon.
EPP Head Peter Adams will work with the EPA on the Science Advisory Board's BenMAP and Benefits Methods Panel. The panel will provide independent advice and analysis of the evidence used to quantify and monetize air pollution-related effects and how the BenMAP tool comes to these conclusions.
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- Business Manager
- Business Manager / Department
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- Executive Director of Master 's Programs
- Executive Director of Master 's Programs / Associate Teaching Professor / Department
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- Professor of Risk Management and Director of King 's Centre for Risk Management / Department of Geography, King 's College London
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- Dean
- Dean of Heinz College
Ramayya Krishnan is the dean of Heinz College and the W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems. He has a B.Tech. in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and an M.S. in industrial engineering and operations research and Ph.D. in management science and information systems from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an International Research Fellow of the International Center for Electronic Commerce in Korea and a visiting scientist at the Institute for Information Systems at Humboldt University (Germany). He was a founding faculty member of the Information Systems Management program at Heinz College.
Krishnan's current research projects investigate risk management in business process design and in information security, large scale social network analysis, and the design of policies that take into account the competing needs of promoting data access and protecting privacy. His ideasLab presentation on data analytics at the World Economic Forum summarizes key ideas from his research program.
Krishnan's teaching interests lie at the interface of technology, business, and policy aspects of internet-enabled systems. He has taught courses on e-business and telecommunications management, and led the creation of a capstone course on digital transformation that integrates technological and managerial aspects of information technology. He is the recipient of the General Motors (GM) Technical Education Program Outstanding Distance Learning Faculty Award, which honors a professor for demonstrating excellence in distance learning education. He has received the Martcia Wade Teaching Award, and has twice received the Teaching Award for the Heinz College's IT programs. He has taught in numerous executive education programs and is an expert on the use of IT to both create and capture value for organizations.
Ramayya Krishnan has been appointed by the U.S. Department of Commerce to serve on the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC), which will advice the President and the National AI Initiative Office on a range of issues related to artificial intelligence (AI).
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- Associate Department Head
- Professor and Associate Department Head for Graduate Affairs
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- Forbes Marshall Chair Professor / Department of Energy Science and Engineering
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- Visiting Professor / Smith School
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- Department
- Professor Emeritus
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy
- Department
Sarah H. Cen is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford and an incoming assistant professor at CMU. Cen's position at Stanford is joint between the Department of Computer Science and the Law School. She works with professors Daniel Ho and Percy Liang on AI auditing, AI supply chains, and AI policy. She recently finished her Ph.D. at MIT in electrical engineering and computer science, where she was advised by professors Aleksander Mądry and Devavrat Shah.
Cen's research is focused on the intersection of machine learning and AI accountability, exploring how computer science, law, and policy come together to ensure that AI is developed and deployed responsibly. She tackles this line of work using tools from machine learning, statistics, causal inference, and game theory. Cen received her master's degree in engineering science (robotics) from Oxford University and her bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Princeton University.
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- Assistant Professor
- Department
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- Department
- Professor Emeritus
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- Executive Coordinator & Director of Events, Critical Technology Initiative
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- Professor in Transport and Energy Systems / Chalmers University of Technology
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University
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- Assistant Professor of Medicine / University of Pittsburgh
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- Director, Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research / Department
- Professor
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy
- Thomas Lord Professor, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Engineering and Public Policy Director, Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research
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- Director of Research
- Director, Kigali Collaborative Research Center / Department
- Professor
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy Director, Kigali Collaborative Research Center
Timothy X Brown is director of research and a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy Departments at Carnegie Mellon University Africa in Rwanda. He is also director of the Kigali Collaborative Research Center. From 1995 to 2012 he was at the University of Colorado at Boulder, most recently as professor and director of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program. He received his B.S. in physics from Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, after which he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Bell Communications Research. His research interests include adaptive network control, machine learning, and wireless communication systems. His current research funding includes Master Card Foundation and other industry funders. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and the GWEC Wireless Educator of the Year Award.
As director of research, he is responsible for:
Outreach to research partners and funders
Recruiting postdocs
Faculty and student research advisor
Research resources lead (labs, computing, etc.)
Liaising with Pittsburgh research
Liaising with KCRC
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Engineering and Public Policy, Software and Societal Systems Department
- Department
- Education
Travis D. Breaux is an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy Department's at Carnegie Mellon University, and is appointed in the Software and Societal Systems Department. Breaux's research program searches for new methods and tools for developing correct software specifications and ensuring that software systems conform to those specifications in a transparent, reliable, and trustworthy manner. This includes demonstrating compliance with U.S. and international accessibility, privacy and security laws, policies, and standards. Breaux is the director of the Requirements Engineering Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University. Breaux has several publications in ACM and IEEE-sponsored journals and conference proceedings. Breaux is a member of the ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE Computer Society, and USACM Public Policy Committee.
Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon University, Breaux received a Doctorate of Philosophy in Computer Science from North Carolina State University (NCSU) in 2009. Dr. Breaux also holds Baccalaureate degrees in Computer and Information Science from the University of Oregon and in Anthropology from the University of Houston. He has conducted research at the Institute for Defense Analyses, the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University. In 2000, Dr. Breaux served as a volunteer in the United States Peace Corps in Mongolia, before transitioning from anthropology to computer science.
Breaux is the recipient of the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the agency's most prestigious award for junior faculty.
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- Associate Director
- Associate Director, Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation / Professor, Engineering and Public Policy
Valerie Karplus is a professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and associate director at the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation.
Karplus studies resource and environmental management in organizations operating in diverse national and industry contexts, with a focus on the role of institutions and management practices in explaining performance. Areas of expertise include innovation in global corporate and industrial supply chains, regional approaches to workforce and economic revitalization, and the integrated design and evaluation of public policies. Karplus has taught courses on public policy analysis, global business strategy and organization, entrepreneurship, and the political economy of energy transitions. At CMU, she runs the Laboratory for Energy and Organizations Opens in new window. Karplus is also a faculty affiliate of the MIT Energy Initiative Opens in new window, the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Opens in new window, and the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy.
She has previously worked in the development policy section of the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany, as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow, and in the biotechnology industry in Beijing, China, as a Luce Scholar. From 2011 to 2016, she co-founded and directed the MIT-Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project a five-year research effort focused on analyzing the design of energy and climate change policy in China, and its domestic and global impacts. Karplus previously served on the faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Karplus holds a BS in biochemistry and political science from Yale University and a Ph.D. in engineering systems from MIT.
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- Academic Program Advisor
- Graduate Program Advisor / Department
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- Education
- Research Professor Emeritus
- Research Professor Emeritus / Department
- Research Professor Emeritus, Engineering and Public Policy
W. Michael Griffin is a research professor emeritus in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. He previously held multiple positions at British Petroleum where he directed a technical services group for both upstream and downstream operations dedicated to water handling, treatment, and corrosion mitigation. He was the director of Research and Development for Sybron Chemicals where his group provided research and technical support for chemicals production and bioremediation efforts. He later was the director of Research at the National Environmental Technology Application Corporation and provided technical evaluation of environmental technologies for business and government. His current research and teaching interests centers on the analysis of the environmental impacts of energy development. Recently, in collaboration with colleagues at Carnegie mellon, he has extended this work to address the impacts of adopting renewable alternative fuels focusing on infrastructure requirements, "best use" of non-renewable resources, and addressing uncertainty in life cycle assessment.
Griffin's education includes a B.S. and M.S. in Biology from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Rhode Island.
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- Department of Geology and Planetary Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
- Professor
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- Project Coordinator / Department
- Project Coordinator, Engineering and Public Policy, Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation