Research Directory

Areas

Process Engineering & Optimization

Faculty		Research Area
	Benziger, Jay Professor of Chemical Engineering A407 Engineering Quad 609-258-5416 benziger@princeton.edu	Fuel cell engineering; chemical reactor design, stability, and dynamics; heterogeneous catalysis

	Cinlar, Erhan Norman Sollenberger Professor in Engineering; Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering 328 ORF 609-258-0101 ecinlar@princeton.edu	Applied and computational mathematics; queuing theory; stochastic analysis

	Fan, Jianqing Frederick L. Moore, Class of 1918, Professor in Finance; Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering; Director, Committee for Statistical Studies 205 ORFE 609-258-7924 jqfan@princeton.edu	Statistics; biostatistics and bioinformatics; quantitative finance; machine learning; risk modeling and analysis; portfolio management; asset pricing; time series analysis, longitudinal data analysis; survival analysis

	Floudas, Christodoulos Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science; Professor of Chemical Engineering A325 Engineering Quad 609-258-4595 floudas@princeton.edu	Process synthesis, design and operations; mixed-integer nonlinear optimization; global optimization; computational biology and chemistry; proteomics

	Kevrekidis, Yannis Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering A319 Engineering Quad 609-258-2818 yannis@princeton.edu	Complex/multi-scale systems modeling and computation; process dynamics and spatiotemporal pattern formation; fuel cell engineering; nonlinear system identification and control

	Kornhauser, Alain Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering; Director, Program in Transportation 229 Sherrerd Hall 609-258-4657 alaink@princeton.edu	Dynamic resource management; traveler information and decision support; automated vehicle control systems; traveler information systems; personal rapid transit

	Massey, William Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering 206 ORFE 609-258-7384 wmassey@princeton.edu	Stochastic models and queuing theory; performance and pricing models for telecommunications systems; symptotic analysis and stochastic bounds for queueing networks; theories of queues with time-varying rates, stochastic networks

	Powell, Warren Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering 230 ORFE 609-258-5373 powell@princeton.edu	Dynamic resource management; approximate dynamic programming and optimal learning, with applications in energy, homeland security, health and complex resource allocation problems

	Sundaresan, Sankaran Professor of Chemical Engineering A315 Engineering Quad 609-258-4583 sundar@princeton.edu	Granular and multiphase flow; chemical reactor design, stability and dynamics; origin and hierarchy of meso-scale structures in two-phase flows; coarsened equations of motion for two-phase flows; contact stresses in granular assemblies; role of static electrification on gas-particle flows

	Vanderbei, Robert Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering; Chair, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering 106 ORFE 609-258-2345 rvdb@princeton.edu	Telescope design for searching for extra-solar planets; high-contrast imaging; diffractive optics; financial portfolio selection; convex optimization; multi-objective optimization; stochastic dominance; stability of Saturn's rings; astrophysics; stable solutions to the n-body problem

	Wei, James Professor of Chemical Engineering A326 Engineering Quad 609-258-5618 jameswei@princeton.edu	Heterogeneous catalysis; shape selective separation with zeolites and nanoporous materials; structure-property relations, especially its relation to product engineering

	Zaininger, Karl Lecturer in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. C231B Engineering Quad 609-258-6941 zainingr@princeton.edu	Evolving models for innovation process management; appropriateness/limitations of linear models; new, complex interactive models with systems integration, extensive networking, flexible customized response; managing the "fuzzy front end"