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Research Group

Faculty

Konstantinos P. Triantis

John Lawrence Professor

Konstantinos P. Triantis

John Lawrence Professor

Kostas Triantis received his BS and MS in Industrial and Management Engineering and M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research form Columbia University. He is currently Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Director of the System Performance Laboratory (SPL), and serves as the Program Director of the Industrial and Systems Engineering program in Northern Virginia. His teaching and research interests cover the areas of strategic performance measurement and evaluation, data envelopment analysis, and the design of complex socio- technical systems. His research has been published in a number of journals including Management Science, Technometrics, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Transportation Research, Quality Management, Annals of Operations Research, and Journal of Productivity Analysis, among others. He has received research funding from a number of organizations that include the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, American Red Cross, and U.S. Department of Navy, among others.
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Email:triantis@vt.edu

Joseph (Joe) Godfrey

Director, Masters of Engineering Administration Program

Joseph (Joe) Godfrey

Director, Masters of Engineering Administration Program

Dr. Godfrey has 20+ years of experience applying machine learning in direct marketing, as well as developing and apply software in Computational Social Choice. Dr. Godfrey is currently Director of the Masters of Engineering Management and Administration program under the Grado Department of Industrial and System Engineering. Dr. Godfrey's research interests concern the automation of machine learning for marketing, developing data-driven systems dynamics models of the business cycle, aspiration models of social choice, mechanism design, and measurement theory.

Email:josephg1@vt.edu

Lab members

NingYuan Georgia Liu

PhD Candidate

NingYuan Georgia Liu

PhD Candidate

Georgia is a Ph.D. candidate in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. Her research centers on operators' workload, and performance in safety-critical socio-technical systems. Her research interests covers using system dynamics modeling, system thinking, data envelopment analysis, and statistical methods to evaluate workers and organizational performance in complex socio-technical systems.
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Email:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ningyuanliu

Mohammad Hashemian

PhD Candidate

Mohammad Hashemian

PhD Candidate

Mohammad is a PhD candidate in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research centers on enhancing the safety and efficiency performance of sociotechnical systems. His research interests include sociotechnical resilience and systemic risk, data mining and predictive analytics for knowledge generation and decision-making in complex systems, and measurement, improvement, and balancing the safety and efficiency performance of sociotechnical systems Linkedin

Email:moha@vt.edu

Mohammed Ba-aoum

PhD Candidate

Mohammed Ba-aoum

PhD Candidate

Mohammed Ba-Aoum is a Ph.D. candidate in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech (VT). His research is at the forefront of the intersection between data science and sociotechnical systems, using dynamic modeling to inform decision-making and develop data-driven policies. He research interest is in utilizing cutting-edge techniques such as system dynamics modeling, data envelopment analysis, and data and machine learning to model behavior, evaluate performance, and design complex sociotechnical systems. Mohammed serves as a fellow in the Global Engineering Academy at VT and a senior fellow in Engineering for Change. In these roles, he contributes to projects that bridge engineering and global development. Before joining VT, Mohammed worked as a lecturer in Industrial and Systems Engineering at King Fahd University as well as an engineer at ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia. Linkedin

Wilmer Alvardo

PhD Candidate

Wilmer Alvardo

PhD Candidate

Saman Mohsenirad

PhD Candidate

Saman Mohsenirad

PhD Candidate

Tatiana V. Daychman

PhD Candidate

Tatiana V. Daychman

PhD Candidate

Glen Lyddane

PhD Candidate

Glen Lyddane

PhD Candidate

Glen is a Ph.D. candidate in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research centers on socio-technical systems by extending the previous works of Dr. Dougherty, Herrera, and Triantis. His research interests covers using system dynamics modeling, system thinking, data envelopment analysis, complex systems, and statistical approaches to evaluate individual and collective firms in measuring the efficiencies of complex socio-technical systems.

Juan-Carlos Franco

PhD Student

Juan-Carlos Franco

PhD Student

Rocio Ulunque Antezana

Graduate Student

Rocio Ulunque Antezana

Graduate Student

Rocio Ulunque is a production engineer and a master’s student in Management Systems Engineering. She has work experience in quality control, occupational safety, and environment in the manufacturing industry. Her research interests rely on systems design, improvement, and management in order to make systems more efficient with the guarantee of quality and safety. Currently, her research explores operating rooms as socio-technical systems, considering the human-technology interactions and the trade-offs between safety and efficiency.

Email:rocio1797@vt.edu

Research Group

Faculty

Lab members

System Performance Lab

Lab director: Prof. Konstantinos Triantis