Faculty Research Interests
Department of Engineering and Public Policy October 4,
2004
For complete faculty bios see: EPP
Faculty
PETER ADAMS
- Development and Evaluation of a Size-Resolved Model
of Carbonaceous and Mineral Dust Aerosols. (Student:
Kaiping Chen; Funding: NSF)
- Evaluation of Aerosol Sources, Microphysics, and Deposition
in GEOS-CHEM with Field Campaign, Satellite, and Sun
Photometer Data. (Collaborators: Daniel Jacob, Harvard;
Mian Chin, NASA; Student: Win Trivitayanurak; Funding:
NASA)
- Chemistry, Aerosols, and Climate: Tropospheric Unified
Simulation. (Collaborators: John Seinfeld, Caltech;
Thanos Nenes, Georgia Tech; Tony Del Genio, NASA; Student:
Jeff Pierce; Funding: NASA)
- Impacts of Climate Change and Global Emissions on
US Air Quality: Development of an Integrated Modeling
Framework and Sensitivity Assessment. (Collaborator:
Spyros Pandis; Students: John Dawson and Pavan Racherla;
Funding: EPA)
- Development and Evaluation of a Size-Resolved Model
of Sea-Salt Aerosols. (Student: Jeff Pierce; Funding:
none)
- Temporal and Spatial Distribution of US Ammonia Emissions.
(Collaborator: Cliff Davidson; Student: Rob Pinder;
Funding: LADCO / NSF Fellowship)
- Simulation of Pittsburgh Nucleation Events with Ternary
Nucleation Theory and a Two-Moment Sectional Aerosol
Algorithm. (Collaborator: Spyros Pandis; Student: JaeGun
Jung; Funding: none)
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JAY APT
- The proper mix of regulation in restructured electricity
markets. (Collaborator: Lester Lave; Ph.D. Students:
Seth Blumsack and Rahul Walawakar)
- Costs of renewables portfolio standards. (Ph.D. Student:
Katerina Dobesova)
- Electric transmission pricing. (Collaborator: Lester
Lave)
- Technical, policy, and perceptual issues in the transition
to a low-carbon energy future. (Collaborators: David
Keith, Granger Morgan; Ph.D. students: Constantinos
Samaras, Inês Azevedo)
- Architecture and control of a survivable electric
power infrastructure. (Collaborators: Sarosh Talukdar,
Granger Morgan, Lester Lave, Marija Ilic, Bruce Krogh,
Jose Moura, Benoît Morel)
- Designing transmission physical infrastructure for
survivability. (Collaborators: Tony DiGioia, Chris Hendrickson)
- Climate decision making under uncertainty. (Collaborators:
Granger Morgan, Paul Fischbeck)
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V. S. ARUNACHALAM
Arun spends 2-3 months a year here with us. He is working
on a number of issues in IT, energy and economic development.
He is developing a major new technology-policy institution
for graduate education and research in India, which will
have strong ties to CMU and to EPP.
AL BLUMSTEIN
Al is active as a senior member of the EPP faculty but
his research, which is focused on OR modeling and analysis
of crime and the criminal justice system, takes place
in the Heinz School.
KATHLEEN M. CARLEY
- Dynamic Network Analysis and Multi-Agent Simulation.
- Modeling and Predicting Behavior of Covert Networks.
- Simulation Based Evaluation of Response Policies for
WMD (including Bio threats).
- Impact of Novel IT in Organizations.
- Organizational Human Based Risk Management.
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ELIZABETH CASMAN
- Integrated Assessment of Disease Risks: Cryptosporidiosis,
Bubonic and Pneumonic Plague, West Nile Virus, Cholera.
(Collaborators: Granger Morgan, Baruch Fischhoff, Mitch
Small, Julie Downs, Hadi Dowlatabadi)
- Global Change and Human Health: Malaria, Cryptosporidiosis,
Weather related morbidity and mortality. (Collaborators:
Hadi Dowlatabadi, Granger Morgan, Baruch Fischhoff,
Mitch Small, Anand Patwardhan, Thomas Songer, Bill Eddy)
- Early Detection of Covert Bioterrorist Attacks. (Collaborator:
Kathleen Carley)
- Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Organisms.
(Collaborators: Scott Farrow, Benoît Morel, Felicia
Wu)
- Application of Bounding Analysis in Risk Assessment.
(Collaborators: Granger Morgan, Minh Ha-Duong)
- Drinking Water Distribution System Vulnerability.
(Collaborators: Jeanne VanBriesen, Mitch Small; Ph.D.
student: Stacia Thompson)
- Climate Change and Water Resources Planning. (Collaborators:
Mitch Small; Ph.D. student: Mary Schoen)
- Genetic Screening in Occupational Settings. (Ph.D.
student: Tiffany Tummino)
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JERRY COHON
- Jerry has an EPP appointment, tracks our activities
with interest, and comes occasionally to talk to student
functions but, of course, has no time for serious research
involvement.
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LORRIE CRANOR
- Cross-cultural studies of privacy. (Ph.D. student:
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru)
- Longitudinal study of web site privacy policies. (Ph.D.
students: Serge Egelman and Steve Sheng)
- Development of privacy user agents. (Ph.D. student:
Serge Egelman)
- Computer-readable privacy policies and privacy policy
specification languages.
- Usable privacy and security.
- Electronic voting and Internet voting.
- Development and analysis of alternative voting methods.
- CLIFF DAVIDSON
- Ammonia emissions from agricultural sources. (Collaborator:
Peter Adams; Graduate students: Rob Pinder and Ross
Strader)
- Source apportionment of metals and organics. (Collaborator:
Allen Robinson; Graduate student: Natalie Pekney)
- Flows of lead through the environment resulting from
leaded gasoline use in decades past. (Collaborators:
Lester Lave and Fran McMichael; Graduate student: Allison
Harris)
- Variations in airborne concentrations of PM2.5, ions,
metals, and elemental/organic carbon throughout the
tri-state region. (Collaborators: Allen Robinson and
Spyros Pandis; Graduate student: Wei Tang)
- Influence of outsourcing R&D by large companies on
innovations in the U.S. related to rare earth elements.
(Collaborator: Francisco Veloso; Graduate student: Brian
Fifarek)
- Innovative use of RFID tags on construction materials.
(Collaborator: Burcu Akinci; Undergraduate student:
Arthur Goh - Senior Honors Project)
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OTTO (TOBY) DAVIS
Toby is active as a senior member of the EPP faculty
but his research, which is focused on urban systems, takes
place in SDS.
MIKE DEKAY
- Risk perception, particularly ecological risk perception
and the distinction between aggregate- and respondent-level
analyses. (Primary collaborators: Henry Willis (former
EPP graduate student now at RAND), Baruch Fischhoff,
Granger Morgan, Nicolas Bronfman (Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile), and Luis Cifuentes (Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile)
- Precautionary reasoning, information distortion, and
dominance in decisions involving risk. (Primary collaborator:
Paul Fischbeck; EPP Ph.D. student Dalia Patiño Echeverri)
- The appropriateness and implications of aggregating
the outcomes of repeated decisions ("perceived fungibility").
(Primary collaborator: Tai Gyu Kim (former Tepper graduate
student now at the University of Delaware; Heinz Graduate
student: Josh Furgeson)
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DAVE FARBER
Dave's research interests are in telecommunication and
IT policy. He has begun to serve on a number of EPP Ph.D.
committees and become otherwise involved in activities
in the department.
PAUL FISCHBECK
- Understanding the regulatory process. (Collaborators:
David Gerard and David Stikkers)
- Automobile emissions. (Collaborator: David Gerard;
Undergraduate student: Vincent Goh)
- Environmental and health impacts of hybrid and diesel
vehicles. (Collaborator: David Gerard; Ph.D. student:
Sarah Rees)
- Modeling the risks of dirty bombs. (Collaborator:
Baruch Fischhoff; Ph.D. student: Matt Dombroski)
- Using GIS and participatory maps to communicate public
concerns. (Ph.D. student: Shalini Vajjhala)
- Valuing electric power assets under different regulatory
scenarios. (Collaborator: Jay Apt; Ph.D. student: David
Rode)
- Understanding factors behind precautionary behavior.
(Collaborator: Mike DeKay; Ph.D. student: Dalia Patiño
Echeverri)
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BARUCH FISCHHOFF
- Improved scenario planning (application area: xenotransplantation).
(Collaborators: various; Graduate student: Umit Guvenc
(EPP/05))
- Informed consent standards (application area: drugs,
dietary supplements). (Collaborators: various; Graduate
student: Sara Eggers (EPP/05))
- Behaviorally realistic risk analysis (application
area: homeland security). (Collaborators: Paul Fischbeck,
Keith Florig, Victor Weedn, Liz Casman; Graduate student:
Matt Dombroski (EPP/05))
- Affect and judgment (application area: terror risks).
(Collaborators: Jenn Lerner, Julie Downs, Wändi Bruine
de Bruin)
- Perception and communication of treatment effectiveness
(application areas: sexual assault, cancer). (Collaborators:
various; Graduate student; Gabe Silverman (SDS; UMPC/07))
- Adolescent decision-making competence (application
area: emergency contraception). (Collaborators: Julie
Downs, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Andy Parker; Graduate
student: Tamar Krishnamurti (SDS/08))
- Strategic communication (National Cancer Institute
directorate). (Collaborators: Julie Downs, Wändi Bruine
de Bruin)
- Safety and credibility of vaccines (application areas:
MMR, anthrax). (Collaborators: various)
KEITH FLORIG
- Managing Security Risks in the U.S. Postal System.
- Ranking environmental risks in Beijing, China. (Ph.D.
student: Jianhua Xu).
- Adolescents' mental models of the environmental implications
of their consumption decisions. (Collaborators: Baruch
Fischhoff and Wandi Bruine de Bruin)
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DAVID GERARD
- Stakeholder and political influences on the development
of risk regulations: empirical studies of transportation
fuels regulations. (Collaborators: Paul Fischbeck, David
Stikkers)
- Technology-forcing policies affecting automobile emissions,
safety, and fuel economy? examining the regulatory design
and implementation. (Collaborator: Lester Lave)
- Examining policy rationale for fuel economy regulations.
(Collaborator: Lester Lave)
- Examination of automobile emissions and fuel economy
using state I-M data. (Collaborators: Paul Fischbeck;
Undergraduate researcher: Vincent Goh)
- Estimating consumer and producer valuations of safety
and fuel economy. (Collaborator: Paul Fischbeck, undergraduate
researcher: Derek Leong)
- Examining effects of emissions, air quality impacts,
and health effects of introducing light-duty diesels
automobiles. (Collaborators: Paul Fischbeck; Ph.D. student:
Sarah Rees)
ALEX HILLS
Alex works in the area of applied telecommunications
policy. This winter he will be teaching in Chile.
DAVID HOUNSHELL
- Studies of how regulation stimulates technological
innovation.
- Studies of corporate R&D policy.
- Studies of R&D and the future of the energy system.
- Technology and the cold war.
- History of research organizations (DuPont, RAND, etc.)
MARIJA ILIC
- Dynamic Provision and Pricing in the Changing Electric
Power Industry. (Three-year NSF project; Collaborators:
Paul Kleindorfer, Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania;
Chitru Fernando, Business School - University of Oklahoma;
Ingo Vogelsang, Department of Economics - Boston University)
- Electric Power Education. (Three-year NSF project;
Collaborators: Lester Lave, Judy Cardell, Smith College;
Steve Connors, MIT)
- Sensing, Communications and Control for Secure Electric
Power Grids. (CMU, CyLab Seed project; Collaborator:
Ozan Tonguz)
- Toward a Multi-Layered Architecture for Reliable and
Secure Large-scale Networks: The Case of an Electric
Power Grid. (NSF Medium ITR four-year project; Collaborators:
Bruce Krogh, Jose Moura, Lester Lave, Jay Apt)
- Transitioning Critical Infrastructures. (NSF ERC proposal
under preparation; Collaborators: CMU folks/ECE/EPP;
Tepper; MIT/ESD (Lead); GeorgiaTech; RPI/ECE; Univ of
Puerto Rico)
LESTER LAVE
- Alternative fuels and power trains for cars.
- Cellulosic ethanol, safety, etc.
- Electricity industry and markets.
- Designing deregulated markets
- Environmental effects of distributed generation
- Transmission planning and pricing
- Life-cycles of fuels and technologies for generation.
SCOTT MATTHEWS
- Environmental Life Cycle Assessment. (Collaborators:
Lester Lave, Chris Hendrickson; Ph.D. students: Joule
Bergerson, Gyorgyi Cicas, and Joe Marriott)
- Modeling of Life Cycle Pathways of Heavy Metals in
Products and the Environment. (Collaborators: Lester
Lave, Chris Hendrickson, Mitchell Small; Ph.D. students:
Troy Hawkins, Cortney Higgins, and Paulina Jaramillo)
- Cost and Environmental Assessment of an Ethanol Transportation
Infrastructure. (With: Lester Lave and Mike Griffin;
Ph.D. student: Bill Morrow)
- Analysis and Visualization of Critical Infrastructure
Interdependencies. (With: Jim Garrett and Chris Hendrickson;
Ph.D. student: Ping Chen)
- Benefit-Cost Analysis of DHS' US-VISIT Border Screening
Program. (With: Chris Hendrickson; Ph.D. student: Mike
Bodek)
FRAN MCMICHAEL
- Uncertainty in Leontief economic input-output calculations.
- Material balance methods for use in evaluating industrial
environmental control systems.
- Future scenarios for the automobile technologies.
BENOÎT MOREL
- Option theory:
- Extension of option theory to decision under uncertainty:
- In the context of engineering decision (Wireless
telephone): With Hak-Ju Kim
- In the context of environmental decision (with
Scott Farrow)
- In the context of electricity dispatch
- In the context of congestion costs in electricity
transmission in deregulated era (with Dalia Patiño
Echeverri)
- Cybersecurity:
- Internationalization of cybersecurity (collaboration
with Irving Lachow and Seymour Goodman)
- Virus propagation (collaboration with Chenxi Wang)
- Network security (collaboration with Dawn Song)
- Cyberprotection of the power grid (collaboration
with H. Lipson)
GRANGER MORGAN
- Characterization via expert elicitation of irreducible
uncertainties in climate science. (Collaborators: David
Keith and Stephen Schneider)
- Technical, policy, and perceptual issues in the transition
to a low-carbon energy future. (Collaborators: David
Keith, Jay Apt; Ph.D. students: Constantinos Samaras,
Inês Azevedo)
- Distributed electric power generation, micro-grids,
and animal-waste-to-power. (Ph.D. students: Doug King
and Kyle Meisterling)
- Risks to commercial airlines from electromagnetic
interference from consumer electronics. (Ph.D. student:
Bill Strauss)
- Increasing technical content in Islamic education.
(Ph.D. students: Rajiv Sharma, Faheem Hussain)
- Application of bounding analysis in risk assessment.
(Collaborator: Liz Casman)
- Technical and policy strategies for preserving anonymity.
(Ph.D. student: Elaine Newton)
INDIRA NAIR
Indira continues to be active in the affairs of the
department but now has relatively little research involvement
due to her administrative responsibilities. Her research
interests involve technology, education and ethics.
SPYROS PANDIS
Spyros maintains an active program in laboratory and
field research on air pollution, with Ph.D. students in
ChemE, at Carnegie Mellon, while teaching at the University
of Petras in Greece.
JON PEHA
Research on technical and policy issues of information
networks:
- New paradigms for spectrum management. (e.g. cognitive
radios, mesh networks, ultrawideband, sensors.)
- Internet security, technology and policy.
- Network infrastructure for developing countries.
- Protocols and policies for integrated-services networks,
i.e. networks that carry voice, video, and data over
IP-based networks.
- Secure protocols to transfer money over the Internet
and wireless networks.
HENRY PIEHLER
Henry is in the process of retiring. His policy interests
are in the regulation of surgical implants and in issues
related to product liability.
ADRIAN PERRIG
- Secure home networks: ensuring that wireless networks
in the home behave as users expect (with Cynthia Kuo,
Jonathan McCune, and Mike Reiter).
- Secure BGP routing: protect the BGP routing protocol
against attacks (with Haowen Chan, Debabrata Dash, Elaine
Shi, and Hui Zhang).
- Secure sensor networks: protect sensor networks against
attacks (with Bryan Parno).
- Software-based memory attestation: ensure the correctness
of program memory in devices (with Pradeep Khosla, Arvind
Seshadri, and Leendert van Doorn).
ALLEN ROBINSON
- Urban and regional air quality focusing on fine particulate
matter. (Collaborators: Spyros Pandis, Cliff Davidson)
- Heterogeneous oxidation of organic aerosol: laboratory
measurements of kinetics, impacts on source apportionment
estimates, impacts of global change. (Collaborators:
Neil Donahue, Kara Huff Hartz (post-doc); Students:
Emily Weitkamp, Amy Sage)
- Measurement of fine particle emissions from combustion
systems: plume transformations, methods development
for dilution sampling. (Students: Eric Lipsky, Andy
Greishop)
- Source apportionment of organic aerosol. (Collaborators:
Neil Donahue, Spyros Pandis; Students: R. Subramanian,
Manish Manish Shrivastava, Robert Pinder, Tim Lane)
- Biomass energy and coal-biomass cofiring.
ED RUBIN
- Assessment of carbon management strategies for electric
power systems. (Collaborators: Keywan Riahi, Leo Schrattenholzer,
and others listed below)
- Engineering-economic models of CO2 capture options
for combustion-based and integrated gasification combined
cycle (IGCC) energy systems. (Collaborators: Anand Rao,
Chris Frey, Mike Berkenpas; Ph.D. student: Chao Chen)
- Understanding the role of government policies in technology
innovation for environmental control. (Collaborator:
David Hounshell; Ph.D. student: Jaegul Lee)
- Development of historical learning curves for energy
and environmental technologies. (Collaborators: Sonia
Yeh, Howard Herzog, Jon Gibbons, Dale Simbeck; Graduate
student: Matt Antes)
- Modeling geologic storage and transport of carbon
dioxide. (Ph.D. student: Sean McCoy)
- Development of visualization and virtual engineering
capabilities for advanced power systems. (Collaborators:
Mark Bryden, Mike Bockelie, Mike Berkenpas, Karen Kietzke)
- Analysis of multi-pollutant control strategies for
electric power systems. (Collaborators: Mike Berkenpas;
Ph.D. student: Sean McCoy)
- Performance models for solid oxide fuel cell systems.
(Collaborator: Anshu Bharadwaj)
MARVIN SIRBU
- Economics and Pricing of Integrated Services Networks.
(Collaborators: Jon Peha, Ramaya Krishnan)
- Internet Interconnection: economics of peering and
transit. (Ph.D. Student: Pedro Ferreira)
- Broadband Local Access: technology and economics.
(Collaborators: Hui Zhang, Bruce Maggs; Ph.D. student:
Anupam Banerjee)
- The role of local governments in the deployment of
advanced broadband infrastructures technologies in support
of new spectrum policies (e.g. cognitive radio). (Collaborators:
Dan Stancil, Jon Peha)
MITCHELL SMALL
- Perchlorate in drinking water: K. Schmitt, EPA, Heinz.
- Mixtures in groundwater: S. Ryker, NSF fellowship.
- Disinfection byproducts: R. Francis, CIT . . . EPA.
- Security in water distribution systems: S. Thompson,
NSF fellowship.
- Climate change and water quality: M. Schoen, EPA CARA.
- Climate change and coastal wetlands: A. Gilau, EPA
CARA.
- UXO at former military sites: J. MacDonald, NSF fellowship.
JOEL TARR
- Revisions of manuscript on Horses and Cities for Johns
Hopkins University Press.
- Preparation of a book for the University of Pittsburgh
Press composed of my essays on the history of urban
technological systems.
- Rivers and river pollution with a focus on the history
of the Ohio River Watershed.
- Waste disposal issues in the manufactured gas industry.
- Evolution of the Sanitary Engineering and Environmental
Engineering specialties.
RAHUL TONGIA
- Use of "Smart Metering" for electricity reliability,
security, and cost-reduction - technologies, standards,
and policy issues. (Collaborators: David Victor, Stanford;
CEIC faculty; Ph.D. Student: Rahul Walawalkar)
- New networking models for developed and developing
countries. (Collaborators: Hui Zhuang, Bruce Maggs,
Jon Peha; Ph.D. Student: Pitikorn Tengtrakul)
- Wireless technologies and policies. (Collaborators:
Dan Stancil, Jon Peha, et al.)
- Power Sector Deregulation and Reform. (Collaborator:
David Victor, Stanford)
- Information Technology for Sustainable Development
- defining a global agenda and test beds for research.
(Collaborators: Raj Reddy, V. S. Arunachalam, E. Subrahmanian;
Ph.D. Student: Tori Yuhas)
- TechBridgeWorld - CMU initiative to enhance international
education, research, and development. (Collaborators:
M. Bernardine Dias, Joe Mertz; Graduate Student: Kiran
Bellubbi)
HERB TOOR
- Herb is now emeritus but remains active in the affairs
of the department. His research is focused in ChemE.
FRANCISCO VELOSO
- Technological Change and Economic Development
- Promoting economic development in the knowledge
economy - The case of the Brazilian software industry.
(Collaborators: Antonio Botelho, Giancarlo Stefanuto)
- Understanding the productivity of science & technology
in developing nations: The case of Mexico. (PhD
Students: Claudia Gonzalez and Leonardo Reyes)
- The impact of environmental regulation on technological
change. (Collaborators: David Hounshell, Ed Rubin;
Ph.D. Student: Jaegul Lee)
- Technological Change and Firm Performance
- Firm heterogeneity, technological footprints and
performance. (Collaborators: Mary Benner (UPenn);
Ph.D. Student: Claudio Wolter)
- Technological exploration and strategic asset
disbandment. (Collaborators: Robert Lowe)
- Manufacturing Cost Modeling and Applications
- Lean Location Logic - Global location decisions
in the auto components industry. (Collaborators:
JP MacDuffie (UPenn), Jim Womak (Lean Institute),
Sebastian Fixson (UMich))
BOB WHITE
Bob has been active in the affairs of the department.
He has served on some Ph.D. committees but his primary
research focus is in ECE.
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