Interdisciplinary Faculty

Holistic Safety and Security

Safety and security concerns develop from many actors and through many different technologies in our advancing society. By applying inter-disciplinary, holistic community approaches to these problems, we will build safer and more secure systems, and in turn, build stronger communities.

Each faculty member on our research team brings unique industry experience and far-reaching academic collaborations from a wide range of disciplines, including:

Autonomous Systems
Cybersecurity
Human Factors
Physical Safety

STEM Education Research
Sustainability
Systems & Networks
Transportation

Yingjie “Victor” Chen

Associate Professor, CGT
Co-Lead

Visual Analytics, Interactive System Design and Development, Parametric Design and CAD

Chad Laux

Associate Professor, CIT
Co-Lead

Lean Six Sigma, Quality Systems, Illicit Supply Chains

Hazar Nicholas Dib

Associate Professor, CGT and CMT

(BIM) Building Information Modeling, Building Information Management, Application of Object-Oriented-Modeling to life cycle project management, Construction Project Delivery

Kevin Dittman

Associate Professor, CIT

Systems Analysis and Design, Quality Management, Project Management

Stephen Elliott

Department Head and Professor, TLI

Biometrics

Miad Faezipour

Associate Professor, SOET

Digital/biomedical embedded hardware/software co-designs, Healthcare technology with embedded intelligence, AI-based bio-data augmentation

Yi Gao

Associate Professor, SATT

Customer behaviors, safety culture analysis, and pilot selection and education.

Mary E. Johnson

Professor, SATT

Data driven analysis in aviation sustainability and safety

Umit Karabiyik

Assistant Professor / Director of Ubiquitous and Mobile Investigative Techniques and Technologies Lab

Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity, User and Data Privacy, Artificial Intelligence in Security, Privacy and Forensics Applications

Tahir Khan

Clinical Assistant Professor, CIT

computer privacy, computer security, computer forensics, cybersecurity, internet of things, and cloud computing

Jin Kocsis

Assistant Professor, CIT

Deep learning, CPS security, IoT, Blockchain, and privacy preserving

Tianyi Li

Assistant Professor, CIT

Sensemaking, Crowdsourcing, Human Computing, Intelligent User Interface, Human-AI Teaming

Ida Ngambeki

Assistant Professor, CIT

Cybersecurity Education, Cybersecurity Policy, Social Engineering, Information Technology Ethics, and Cybersecurity Workforce Development

Kevin O'Connor

Biometrics Center Director, TLI

No research interests or specialties

Manoj Patankar

Raisbeck Engineering Professor of Aviation Technology & Special Assistant to the Dean for Polytechnic’s Safe Campus Initiative

No research interests or specialties

Randy Rapp

Associate Professor, CMT

Construction equipment management, Disaster restoration and reconstruction management, Construction organization management (strategy, policy, structure, human resources, finance)

Mo Rastgaar

Associate Professor, SOET

Assistive and rehabilitation robots, systems design, cyber-physical systems, dynamics, and controls

Julia Rayz

Professor and Assistant Department Head, CIT

natural language understanding, knowledge discovery and representation, and computational recognition of salient information in texts, uncertainty management