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The following faculty members serve as Academic Fellows to our Center:  

Nabil R. Adam

Professor, Department of Management Science & Information Systems

Director, Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity

 

adam@adam.rutgers.edu

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Ronald D. Armstrong

 

Professor and Vice Chair,
Department of Management Science & Information Systems

Acting Director of the Ph.D. in Management Program

roarmstr@andromeda.rutgers.edu

 

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Maria Boile

Associate Professor, Engn - Civil & Environmental Engineering

boile@rci.rutgers.edu

 

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Wanpracha (Art) Chaovalitwongse

Assistant Professor, Engn - Industrial Engineering

wchaoval@rci.rutgers.edu

 

 

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Chen_Chao_photoChao C.Chen

Professor, Management & Global Business

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S. Chan Choi

Chair and Professor Marketing

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Petra Christmann


Assistant Professor, Management & Global Business
 

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Fariborz Damanpour

Professor,  Management & Global Business

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DiTomaso_photo FULLNancy DiTomaso

Professor, Chair Management & Global Business

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S. Chan Choi

Professor
Department of Management & Global Business
Director, Technology Management Research Center
 

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S. Chan Choi

Chair and Professor Marketing

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Nabil R. Adam

Dr. Adam is a Professor in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems, the Founding Director of the Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity (CIMIC),  Director of the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute, and the Director of the Laboratory for Water Security at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Adam has published numerous technical papers in such journals as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Computing Surveys, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, and  Int. Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. He co-authored/co-edited ten books including  ``Electronic Commerce: Technical, Business, and Legal Issues'', Prentice Hall, 1998, a book on Databases Issues in GIS, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1997 and one on Electronic Commerce (1996), published as part of the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes Series in Computer Science.  He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Digital Libraries and serves on the Editorial board of a number of journals including Journal of Management Information Systems and the Journal of Electronic Commerce.

Ronald D. Armstrong

Professor Armstrong has a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has over 80 refereed journal publications. He has conducted research in integer programming, network flows and the use of mathematical programming in statistics. He is currently working on models and algorithms for automated test assembly.    

 

 

Maria Boile

Dr. Boile is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers University.  She earned a B.S. at the National Technical Institute of Athens, an M.S. at Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. at New Jersey Institute of Technology.    Dr. Boile’s areas of research and interest are intermodal network modeling, freight and maritime systems analysis, ports and marine terminal operations and logistics systems. A study on empty intermodal container management aims at determining the root causes of the empty marine container accumulation issue, determining the current state-of-practice in dealing with this issue in the U.S. and other parts of the world, proposing a method for dealing with the issue, considering all stakeholders, and short-, medium-, and long-term planning horizons. The project will recommend policy guidelines at the federal and state levels and propose stakeholder strategies and operating and management measures to assist initiatives for keeping empty containers in the transport system. The project also proposes the development of a unique system to monitor the accumulation of empty containers in a region. Such a system could provide for a very dynamic proactive or reactive action by combining strategies and tactics from a spectrum of selected candidate measures of an action list. This very dynamic approach can give a balanced reaction to the prevailing conditions each time, thus combining, to the extent possible, stakeholders’ interests.

Wanpracha (Art) Chaovalitwongse

W. Art Chaovalitwongse is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems
Engineering, Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Florida in 2000 and 2003. He previously worked for one year at the Corporate Strategic Research, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, where he managed research in developing efficient mathematical models and novel
statistical data analyses for upstream and downstream business operations.  He received the Excellence in Research Award from the University of Florida and the William Pierskalla Award from  INFORMS. Art is also a recipient of 2006 NSF CAREER Award.

Chao C. Chen

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Dr. Chen is a Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School.  He earned his Ph.D. from the State University of New  York-Buffalo.  Dr. Chen has published articles in journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, and Journal of International Business Studies.  His  teaching and research interests include culture, values, rewards, diversity, and cooperation. He has also conducted seminars on cross-cultural management and acted as consultant on organizational culture and diversity.

S. Chan Choi

Dr. S. Chan Choi is Professor and Chair of the Marketing Department at Rutgers Business School.  He received his BS (Pharmaceutics) and BA (Management) from Seoul National University, an MBA from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. from the Wharton School.  Choi’s research focus is in modeling price competition in various marketing contexts and competitive product positioning.  His current research topics include designing efficient coordination mechanisms within a distribution channel, modeling store brand competition, and analyzing effects of marketing variables on patient compliance in the pharmaceutical industry.  He has worked as a consultant for numerous marketing research studies for the pharmaceutical industry.  He has published in such journals as Marketing Science, Management Science, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and Marketing Letters.

Petra Christmann

Dr. Petra Christmann is an Assistant Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School.  She received a Ph.D. degree in Strategy and International Business from UCLA, a graduate degree in International Economics from the Kiel Institute of World Economics in Germany, and a Diplom-Kaufmann Degree from the Technische Universität in Berlin, Germany.  Prior to joining Rutgers, she was on the faculty of the Darden School at the University of Virginia.  Dr. Christmann’s research focuses on a firm's self-regulation of its environmental and quality practices, and the adoption and implementation of international certifiable standards such as ISO 14001 and ISO 9001.  Dr. Christmann's research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Management and Academy of Management Executive.

Fariborz Damanpour

Dr. Damanpour received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a professor at the Department of Management and Global Business of the Rutgers Business School. Prior to his academic career, he worked as an engineer, an organizational development consultant, and the manager of a start-up unit in a large organization. His primary areas of research have been management of innovation and organization design and change. His papers have been published in the scholarly journals including Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Management Studies, Management Science, Organization Studies, and Strategic Management Journal.

 

Nancy DiTomaso

DiTomaso_photo FULLNancy DiTomaso is Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick.  Her research specialties include the management of diversity and change, the management of knowledge-based organizations, and the management of scientists and engineers. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin--Madison, and she previously taught at New York University and Northwestern University. She also has a Certificate in Business Administration from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and attended Proyecto Linguistico in Quetzeltenango, Guatemala.  She has co-authored and co-edited five books and has had articles published in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Sex Roles, Leadership Quarterly, California Management Review, and the Journal of Engineering-Technology Management. 

George Farris

Dr. Farris received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan.  He has published articles in many journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Research-Technology Management, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. His research interests include the management of technology, motivation and performance of scientists and engineers at various career stages, technology-based strategic alliances and the creation of technological breakthroughs. He is Past Chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management.

Dr. Linguo Gong

Dr. Linguo Gong received his doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Sciences at Rider University.  His research interests are in quantitative modeling and analysis, especially in the areas of Supply Chain Management, Quality Management, Production Planning and Control.  His research publications appear in Management Science, Decision Sciences, IIE Transactions, Production and Operations Management, Naval Research Logistic, and European Journal of Operational Research. 

 

Suresh Govindaraj

Govindaraj_photo HALFDr. Govindaraj received his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University.  He is currently an Associate Professor in Rutgers Business School's Department of Accounting and Information Systems.  Dr. Govindaraj's areas of expertise include financial accounting, executive compensation and taxes.  He is currently working on research involving profit smoothing and product pricing.

 

 

Harsharanjeet Jagpal

Jagpal_photo HALFDr. Jagpal regularly contributes to such journals as Marketing Science and the Journal of Business. He is the author of Marketing Strategy and Uncertainty, Oxford University Press, 1999. Harry Markowitz, Nobel Prize winner in Economics, concludes that, “Professor Jagpal’s pioneering book moves us forward towards a detailed, integrated theory of the firm.” Professor Jagpal’s areas of interest include new products, the marketing-engineering interface, advertising, forecasting, multivariate methods in market research, sales force compensation, and the pharmaceutical industry. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University.

Douglas H. Jones

Dr. Douglas H. Jones received his Ph.D. degree at Florida State University. He is an Associate Professor of Statistics in the Rutgers Business School's Department of Management Science and Information Systems, with over 50 publications in refereed journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, Psychometrika, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Annals of Statistics. His research interests include applications of Bayesian statistics to portfolio selection in finance, data mining, supply chain metrics and security.

Michael N. Katehakis  

Professor Katehakis is a frequent contributor to a variety of journals including Mathematics of Operations Research, Probability in the Engineering and Information Sciences, Annals of Applied Probability, Advances in Applied Probability, Management Science, Advances in Applied Mathematics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. He is the winner of the 1992 Wolfowitz Prize and a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences and the Journal of Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. His research interests include dynamic programming, estimation and control under incomplete information, stochastic modeling and optimization, mathematical programming, computer simulation, applications in queuing systems, reliability, maintenance and finance.  

Kenneth D. Lawrence  

Dr. Lawrence is a Professor of Management and Marketing Science and Decision Support Systems in the School of Management at the NJ Institute of Technology.  His professional employment includes over 20 years of technical management experience with AT&T as Director, Decision Support Systems and Marketing Demand Analysis, Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., Prudential Insurance, and the U. S. Army in forecasting, marketing planning and research, statistical analysis, supply chain,  and operations research.   He is a full member of the Graduate Doctoral Faculty of Management at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems.  He is a member of the graduate faculty at NJIT in management, transportation, statistics and industrial engineering.  He is an active participant in professional associations such as the Decision Sciences Institute, Institute of Management Science, Institute of Industrial Engineers, American Statistical Association, and the Institute of Forecasters.  He has conducted significant funded research projects in health care operation and transportation.

Lei Lei

Dr. Lei Lei graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989 with a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and a minor in Computer Sciences.  Her main research interests are in supply chain logistics optimization, distribution network designs, channel coordination analysis and optimization, cyclic scheduling, computer simulation and resource constrained project management. She has published a number of research papers in academic journals such as Management Science, IIE Transactions, ORSA Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, Interfaces, etc. Her recent work includes the development of optimal operational strategies to minimize the inventory, purchasing, and distribution costs for supply chains. She is also a leading researcher for a recent industry project on integrated planning of production, inventory, and transportation which led to a multiple-million-dollar annual saving for the company. She is currently the director of Rutgers Center for Supply Chain Management, Rutgers Business school, and the dissertation advisor of several Ph.D. students. She is also an Associate Editor of IIE Transactions.

Benjamin Melamed

Benjamin Melamed is a Professor II at the Rutgers Business School– Newark and New Brunswick, Department of MSIS, and a member of RUTCOR (Rutgers Center for Operations Research), both at Rutgers University. Melamed received a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Statistics from Tel Aviv University in 1972, and a M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 1973 and 1976, respectively. From 1977 to 1981 he taught at the department of Industrial Engineering and Management Science at Northwestern University. He joined the Performance Analysis Department at Bell Laboratories in 1981, and later became an AT&T Fellow. Melamed moved to NEC in 1989 and served there as a Deputy Director, Head of the Performance Analysis Department, and NEC Fellow. He consulted at Bellcore in 1995 and joined Rutgers University in 1996. Melamed’s research interests include system modeling and analysis (especially supply chains, telecommunications systems and traffic modeling), simulation, stochastic processes and visual modeling environments. His research has been supported by DARPA and NSF. Melamed authored or co-authored over 90 papers. He co-authored two books: Modern Modeling and Simulation, 1998, John Wiley and Sons (with R. Rubinstein), and Simulation Modeling and Analysis With Arena, 2007, Elsevier, (with T.Altiok). Melamed was awarded an AT&T Fellow in 1988 and an IEEE Fellow in 1994. He became an IFIP WG7.3 member in 1997, and was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma in 1998. 

Lee Papayanopoulos   

Dr. Papayanopoulos has published in journals including Computers And Operations Research and Annals of Dynamic Games. His interests include management of information systems, voting, game theory, power majority games, apportionment/ reapportionment, computer aided instruction, electronic classrooms, location theory, and networks.  He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

 

 

Eugene Sivadas

Dr. Sivadas is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Milgard School of Business, University of Washington, Tacoma.  He is Chair of American Marketing Association’s Interorganizational SIG and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Health Communication and International Journal of Pharmaceutical & Health Care Marketing.  Dr.  Sivadas’ research has been published in eleven journals including the Journal of Marketing and he has presented papers at the major conferences in his field.  Dr. Sivadas’ work has been cited more than 300 times by other scholars.

 

Zachary G. Stoumbos

Dr. Stoumbos is the Chair of the Management Science & Information Systems (MSIS) Department at the Rutgers Business School (RBS).  He is the recipient of the 2003 Jack Youden Prize of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the American Society for Quality (ASQ) for the best research paper in the physical, chemical, and engineering sciences.  He is also the recipient of the 2004 ASQ Brumbaugh Award for the paper with the greatest single contribution to the development of the industrial application of quality control and statistical process control.  Dr. Stoumbos is twice the recipient of the Paul Nadler Teaching Excellence Award and a recipient of outstanding researcher awards at RBS.

Dr. Stoumbos has served as the 2004 Chair-Elect and 2005 Chair of the Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).  He is a Senior Member of ASQ and of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE).  He is a member of INFORMS, of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and of the International Federation of Nonlinear Analysts (IFNA).  He is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Quality Technology and a member of the Jack Youden Award Committee of the ASA.

Dr. Stoumbos is widely published in leading research journals, including Technometrics, Journal of Quality Technology, Journal of the American Statistical Association, IIE Transactions, Nonlinear Analysis, and other journals.  He has served as a scientific advisor and consultant for a large number of major corporations and organizations nationally and internationally.  His research interests include statistical process control, data mining and classification analysis, time series analysis and forecasting, information systems and technology, financial and risk modeling, public-health surveillance, terrorism and bioterrorism preparedness, psychometrics, and supply-chain management.  Dr. Stoumbos received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech.

Sotirios Theofanis

Professor Sotirios Theofanis is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of LOULIS Group,  a major Industrial Group of Companies in South-eastern Europe, active in the fields of Flour Mills and Food Processing, with industrial and commercial activities in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Albania. He is Visiting Professor and Director of Program Development, Maritime Infrastructure Engineering and Management Program (MIEMP) at Rutgers University’s Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT). He is former President and CEO of Piraeus Port Authority, S.A., Greece and former CEO of Thessaloniki Port Authority, S.A., Greece. He is also former Director for Port Planning of the Hellenic Ministry of Merchant Marine. He has extensive managerial, academic and consulting experience in the fields of industrial management, supply chain management, logistics, transportation planning and management, freight transportation, maritime transportation, port management and operations. He studied Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens in Athens, Greece and has undergone graduate studies in the fields of environmental engineering at the University Birmingham, U.K., port management at the Galilee College, Haifa, Israel, and doctoral studies in maritime transportation at the Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Jaideep Vaidya

Dr. Vaidya earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University.  He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Management Science and Information Systems Department at Rutgers Business School.  His research interests include confluence of privacy/security, data mining and databases, security and privacy issues raised by data mining, data mining techniques applied to interoperation of heterogeneous information sources, applied cryptography and secure multi-party computation techniques, and use of data mining for enhancing security.

 

Miklos Vasarhelyi

Vasarhelyi_photo FULLDr. Vasarhelyi is a Professor in the Accounting and Information Systems Department at Rutgers Business School.  He has published thirteen books and over 80 articles on a variety of topics, including expert systems, the Internet, e-commerce, intelligent agents and accounting systems.  Dr. Vasarhelyi received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California-Los Angeles.

 

 

Dr. Hui Xiong

Dr. Xiong received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Management Science and Information Systems Department at Rutgers University. His general area of research is data and knowledge engineering, with a focus on developing effective and efficient data analysis techniques for emerging data intensive applications. He is the co-editor of Clustering and Information Retrieval (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), the author of Hyperclique Pattern Discovery: Algorithms and Applications (ProQuest Information and Learning, 2006), and the co-Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of GIS (Springer, 2007). He is an IEEE senior member and a member of the ACM, the ACM SIGKDD, and Sigma Xi. Dr. Xiong was the recipient of the Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award at Rutgers Business School in 2007.

Jian Yang

Dr. Jian Yang graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000, and has since been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering of New Jersey Institute of Technology.  His research interests are in production planning, scheduling, logistics, stochastic inventory control, and electronic commerce.   Dr. Yang has published in journals such as Computers and Operations Research, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, Operations Research, and Transportation Science.

 

Sengun (Shen) Yeniyurt

Dr. Sengun (Shen) Yeniyurt is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department at Rutgers Business School.  He earned a Ph.D. from Michigan State University.  Dr. Yeniyurt’s research interests are related to strategic market positioning, new product performance and brand management.  Current projects he is working on include new product launch strategies and their effect on sales performance, spillover effects of marketing actions among products and brands that originate from the same country, and the role of brand strength in the return on marketing investments.  Much of his research is conducted in the context of the global automotive industry.  He has several journal publications and conference proceedings.

Yao Zhao
 
Dr. Yao Zhao obtained his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University, and currently serves as an assistant professor at the Management Science and Information Systems Department of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. His Ph.D. thesis is on the Impact of Information Sharing on Supply Chain Performance. His research interests include supply chain management, production and logistics. In the last two years, Dr. Zhao has collaborated with General Motors in the area of Spare Part Operations, and Estee Lauder Companies Inc., in the areas of forecasting and inventory control for new product introduction.