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Faculty

Rachel Croson is Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School. Her general interests involve studying experimentally and empirically how individuals make strategic decisions, as compared with the predictions of economic theory. Currently focusing on two sorts of strategic decisions; negotiation/bargaining and contributing to public goods. Also interested in the implications of psychological results and theories (e.g. prospect theory, nonconsequential reasoning, personality testing) for economic and business decisions.

John Keenan is Professor of Electrical & Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Research areas include the biological and health effects of pollution, wastewater treatment, water resources engineering, environmental impact assessment, and hazardous materials in the environment. Recent research efforts include assessment and selection of waste heat utilization technologies focusing on steam electric power facilities; an analysis of water resources in selected countries of the Middle East; development of single sludge wastewater treatment technologies; production and control of landfill leachates; development of expert systems for remediation of hazardous waste sites.

John Keenan
 

Steven Kimbrough is Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School. His research interests that include: decision support systems; electronic commerce; artificial intelligence and computational rationality; logic modeling; evolutionary computation (including genetic algorithms and genetic programming). Current projects include: knowledge-based decision support systems, intelligent filtering and retrieval of multi-media information, and computational modeling of intelligent adaptation.
 

Ian Lustick is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania where he holds the Bess W. Heyman Chair in Political Science. He also serves as Associate Director of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania. His general interests include ethnic conflict, Middle East politics, American foreign policy, social science methodology, and organization theory. His current research focuses on development and applications of agent-based modeling techniques, especially the ABIR and PS-I simulation tools, to the solution of theoretical and policy related problems pertaining to models of collective identity, learning as an emergent process, identitarian conflict, globalization, the requisites of stable democracy, and the effects of terrorism.
 
Ian Lustick
 

Joshua Mosley is Associate Professor of Animation and Digital Media in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked on research projects at Penn which explore how interactive narrative situations change the behavior of medical patients. For his primary research as an Electronic Artist, he has been awarded the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize (2006), Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2005), The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2003), Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship (2003). His animated art works have been exhibited at the Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2005); Museum fŸr Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland (2003); the Art Institute of Chicago (2003); The Philadelphia Museum of Art (2003); Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany (2005, 2004); Art 33 Basel - Art Film, Basel, Switzerland (2002); Donald Young Gallery, Chicago (2004, 2003, 2002, 2000); St. Mark's Church, New York (2002); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2001); Transmediale, Berlin, Germany (1998).
 

George Pappas is Assistant Professor and the Graduate Group Chair in Electrical Engineering at Penn. His research focus is on hybrid systems, hierarchical control systems, embedded real-time systems, nonlinear systems, geometric control theory, robotics, air traffic management systems, formation control systems, and distributed control of multi-agent systems.
 
George Pappas

 

John Pourdehnad is Associate Director of ACASA. Dr. Pourdehnad holds his Ph.D. in Systems Sciences from the Wharton School, and is currently an adjunct professor of Systems Engineering. His primary areas of focus and research include implications of Systems Thinking in complex problem formulation and systems redesign, knowledge development in creation of new products and services and the development of socio-technical systems for learning and knowledge-to-wisdom management in complex adaptive systems.

Stanley Schwartz is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, board certified in Diabetes and Endocrinology. His clinical and research interests lie with the study of clinical information systems, and decision and learning aids for diabetics. His a graduate of the University of Chicago School of Medicine.
 
Stanley Schwartz
 

Barry Silverman is Director of ACASA at Penn and professor of engineering/SE & CIS, Medicine and Wharton/OPIM as well as fellow and honoree of several professional societies. He has authored or edited 12 books, 100 articles and 7 patented software systems on intelligent agents, knowledge management and virtual worlds for enhancing human performance and adaptivity.
 

Tony Smith is a Professor of Systems Engineering and Regional Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His primary area of research is in the theory and application of probabilistic models to spatial interaction behavior. A secondary area of research is in transportation and land use modeling. Dr. Smith holds his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He has written two textbooks and numerous journal articles. Dr. Smith was designated the 1999 recipient of the Walter Isard Award for Distinguished Scholarship by the Regional Science Association International.
 
Tony E. Smith
 

Vukan R. Vuchic is UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation Engineering and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Areas of research include: Urban Transportation, Urban Public Transportation, Highway Transportation, Transportation Networks and Railroad Systems.
 

Iraj Zandi is the National Center professor Emeritus of Resource Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania where he has been since 1966. He has published more that 100 research papers. He has lectured internationally on systems thinking and its application in a number of engineering disciplines. His current research is on the role of neural networks and connectionist learning metholodogies for improving systems modeling, prediction, and risk management.
 
Iraj Zandi