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Faculty

 

The UWEBC provides a unique research environment where faculty and students from a variety of disciplines across campus (including engineering, business, computer science, law, etc.) work collaboratively with industry to investigate the state-of-the-art and next generation ideas and to address complex and emerging e-commerce and e-business issues. The knowledge-sharing that occurs between companies helps in dissemination of lessons learned and best practices.

 

Neeraj Arora

Neeraj Arora

Assistant Professor, Marketing

 

Areas of interest:

- Consumer choice

- Economic theory

- Marketing Research

- Statistics

 

 

Nancy Buchan

Nancy Buchan

Assistant Professor, Marketing

 

Areas of interest:

- Decision making

- Negotiation, cross-cultural

 

Pascale Carayon

Pascale Carayon

Professor, Industrial Engineering

Director, Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement

 

Areas of interest:

- Human factors and ergonomics

- Quality and productivity improvement

- Technological and organizational change

 

Mason Carpenter

Mason Carpenter

Assistant Professor, Management and Human Resources

Associate of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship

 

Areas of interest:

- Corporate governance

- Global firms

- Strategy

- Venture development

 

Peter Carstensen

Peter Carstensen

Associate Dean Research & Faculty Development, Law School

George H. Young-Bascom Professor

 

Areas of interest:

- Antitrust law

- Competition policy

 

Anuj Desai

Anuj Desai

Assistant Professor, Law School

 

Areas of interest:

- International law

- Communication and information technology

 

Kristin Eschenfelder

Kristin Eschenfelder

Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies

 

Areas of interest:

- social and organizational impacts of information technology

- web information system management issues

- telecommunications and information policy

- technical work

- organizational communications

- user based information system design and evaluation

 

Mark Finster

Mark Finster

Associate Professor, Operations and Information Management

 

Areas of interest:

- Creativity and innovation

- Design

- Strategic improvement

 

David H. Gustafson

David H. Gustafson

Professor, Industrial Engineering

 

Areas of interest:

- health services research

- decision analysis

- computer-based decision support systems

- program evaluation

- quality improvement technology

 

Donald Hausch

Donald Hausch

Professor, Operations and Information Management

Director, Executive MBA Program

 

Areas of interest:

- Auctions and competitive bidding

- Bankruptcy

- Contracts

- Procurement

 

Jan Heide

Jan Heide

Professor, Marketing

 

Areas of interest:

- Channels of distribution

- Inter-organizational relationships
- Strategic decisions

- Vertical market restrictions

 

Sanjay Jain

Sanjay Jain

Assistant Professor, Management and Human Resources

 

Areas of interest:

- Entrepreneurship

- Process management

- Strategic decisions

 

John Kidwell

John Kidwell

Kathleen M. & George I. Haight Professor, Law School

 

Areas of interest:

- Contracts

- Patents

- Copyright

- Trademarks

- Property

- Remedies

 

Sung Kim

Sung Kim

Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Management

 

Areas of interest:

- E-Commerce

- Information technology

- Online marketing

 

Larry Landweber

Larry Landweber

John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Sciences

 

Areas of interest:

- Internet2 project

- Network technology and policies

 

Rafael Lazimy

Rafael Lazimy

Associate Professor, Operations and Information Management

 

Areas of interest:

- Information technologies: Database systems; web-enabled systems

- Analysis and design of information systems

- Decision support systems, and Integrated modeling systems

- Business process reengineering

- Optimization models

- New product development in competitive markets: Time-to-market versus product performance

 

Divakaran Liginlal

Divakaran Liginlal

Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Management

 

Areas of interest:

- Telecommunications & Business Strategy

- E-Business Infrastructure

- Uncertainty Handling in Decision Support Systems and Databases

 

Olvi Mangasarian

Olvi Mangasarian

John von Neumann Professor of Mathematics and Computer Sciences

 

Areas of interest:

- Mathematical programming

- Machine learning

- Data mining

- Large-scale problems

 

Ella Mae Matsumura

Ella Mae Matsumura

Associate Professor, Accounting and Information Systems

 

Areas of interest:

- Managerial accounting and control

- Cost analysis and performance measurement

- Economic theory of incentives

 

 

Anne Miner

Anne Miner

The Ford Motor Company Distinguished Professor of Management and Human Resources

Faculty Affiliate, Weinert Center for Entreprenership

Member, Advisory Board, Manufacturing and Technology Management Program

 

Areas of interest:

- Entrepreneurship

- Gender issues

- Industry learning

- Inter-organizational relationships

- New product development

- Strategic marketing management

- Technological change

 

Jim Morris

Jim Morris

Professor, Operations and Information Management

Chair, Operations and Information Management

 

Areas of interest:

- Distribution System Network Design

- Operations research

- Optimization models

 

Jeffrey Naughton

Jeffrey Naughton

Professor, Computer Science

 

Areas of interest:

- Database systems

- Database-related technologies for Internet Applications

 

 

Michelle R. Nelson

Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

 

Areas of interest:

- persuasive communications and consumer behavior

- understanding advertising effectiveness

- localized approaches to cross-cultural advertising

- brand placements in computer/video games

 

John Nevin

John Nevin

Grainger Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, Marketing

Associate Dean, Masters Programs

Executive Director, Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management

 

Areas of interest:

- Channels of distribution

- Franchising Inter-organizational relationships
- Strategic marketing management

- Supply chain management

 

 

Raghu Ramakrishnan

Raghu Ramakrishnan

Professor, Computer Science

 

Areas of interest:

- Integrating heterogeneous data sources

- Content-based querying and indexing of sequence and image data

- Exploratory analysis of large data sets (data mining)

- Scalable, interactive visualization of large datasets

- Extending database query languages using constraints and deduction

 

James Rappold

James Rappold

Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Management

 

Areas of interest:

- Manufacturing information systems

- Production planning and inventory theory

 

Parameswaran Ramanathan

Paramesh Ramanathan

Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Management

 

Areas of interest:

- Manufacturing information systems

- Production planning and inventory theory

 

Larry Rittenberg

Larry Rittenberg

Professor, Accounting and Information Systems

 

Areas of interest:

- Accounting standards

- Auditing

 

Louise Robbins

Louise Robbins

Professor and Director, School of Library and Information Studies

 

Areas of interest:

- Library management and information policy

- Communication technologies and information policy

- Wisconsin Policy Library, a policy portal for the Wisconsin Legislature

 

Akbar M. Sayeed

Akbar Sayeed

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

 

Areas of interest:

- wireless communications

- statistical signal processing

- communication theory

- space-time wireless channel modeling

- time-frequency and wavelet analysis

 

Jude W. Shavlik

Jude W. Shavlik

Professor, Computer Sciences and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics

 

Areas of interest:

- machine learning

- neural networks

- artificial intelligence

- bioinformatics

- informational retrieval

- intrusion detection

- intelligent user interfaces

 

Leyuan Shi

Leyuan Shi

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering

 

Areas of interest:

- Simulation modeling

- Large-scale optimization

- Supply chain optimization

- Production planning and scheduling

 

Harold J. Steudel

Harold J. Steudel

Emerson Electric Professor in Total Quality

Chair, Industrial Engineering

 

Areas of interest:

- quality engineering

- facilities planning and design

- cellular manufacturing systems design and analysis

- ISO 9000

 

Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng

Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Associate Director, Polymer Engineering Center

 

Areas of interest:

- Internet-based collaboration for design and manufacturing

- injection molding and innovative plastics manufacturing processes

- computer-aided engineering (CAE)

 

Gregg Vanderheiden

Gregg Vanderheiden

Professor, Industrial Engineering

Director, Trace R&D Center

 

Areas of interest:

- Ergonomics

- Nomodic/mobile computing

- Universal design

- Computer interface design

- Communication aids & systems

- Rehabilitation engineering

- Computer access for people with disabilities

- Accessible design of mass market products

- Design of next-generation information and transaction systems

 

Daniel van der Weide

Daniel van der Weide

Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

 

Areas of interest:

- Multifunctional scanned probe microscopy

- Localized spectroscopy of biological and low-dimensional electronic systems

- Terahertz circuits and devices

 

Raj Veeramani

Raj Veeramani

Professor, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Operations & Information Management

Director, Wisconsin E-Business Consortium

 

Areas of interest:

- Electronic commerce decision technologies and business models

- B2B e-commerce

- Internet-aided supply web management

- Computer integrated construction

- Highly-distributed control of manufacturing systems

- CAD/CAM

 

Mary Vernon

Mary Vernon

Professor and Vilas Associate, Computer Science

 

Areas of interest:

- Computer systems performance analysis

- Scalable information infrastructure

- On-demand data delivery

- Streaming media servers

- Quantifying system security

- Parallel architectures

- Distributed systems

 

Kenneth H. Wathne

Kenneth H. Wathne

Assistant Professor, Marketing

 

Areas of interest:

- Marketing

- Marketing strategy

- Marketing channels

- Supply chain management

 

Urban Wemmerlov

Urban Wemmerlov

Professor Operations and Information Management

Kress Family-Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Productivity and Quality

Director, Erdman Center for Manufacturing and Technology Management

 

Areas of interest:

- Cellular manufacturing

- Change, initiating and implementing

- Cross-functional management

- Implementation

- Just-in-time systems

- Manufacturing information systems

- Manufacturing management ยท Performance improvement

- Production planning and inventory theory

- Productivity improvement

- Response-time improvement

- Supply chain management

- Technological change

- Time-based competition