Project Leadership
PI, co-Director of the program and Professor and Chair of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Research areas: Complex system design, primarily in the aerospace and defense sectors. Our work considers both the organizational and technical system architectures to “design-in” an ability to achieve performance goals across extended and highly uncertain operational lifetime
Email: zszajnfa@gwu.edu
co-PI, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Women in Engineering
Research areas: Diversity in Computing, Computer Science Education, Multimedia,
Email: sheller@gwu.edu
co-PI, co-Director of the program and Professor and Chair of Computer Science
Research areas: Computer Vision, Explainable AI
Email: pless@gwu.edu
co-PI, Associate Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Research areas: modeling of systems interdependence, mathematical programming and optimization, technology management, the economics of environmental change and technology policy
Email: eshittu@gwu.edu
Research Leadership
Associate Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Research areas: decision-making under risk, group decision-making, system architecture, behavioral epidemiology, and systematic distortions of public opinion
Email: broniatowski@gwu.edu
Associate Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Research areas: Crisis, emergency, and risk management, Systems engineering, Operations research and management science
Email: egralla@gwu.edu
Director of the SEAS Center for Innovation
Research areas: Media studies; and art, design and innovation
Email: ewortham@gwu.edu
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research areas: Cryptography and multi-party computation
Email: arkady@gwu.edu
Fellows
PhD student in Computer Science
Research areas: usable security and privacy with a focus on the study of privacy management tools and improving the communication of privacy risks to end users.
Email: dgbalash@gwu.edu
PhD student in Systems Engineering
Research areas: automated vehicles, aiming to understand how we can leverage this emerging technology for the benefit of, rather than detriment to, society.
Email: leahkaplan@gwu.edu
PhD student in Systems Engineering
Research areas: Online misinformation and social media moderation systems.
Email: dkoban@gwu.edu
Justine Manning
PhD student in Computer Science
Research areas: Computer Vision and Explainable AI
Email: jlsmanning@gwu.edu
Lydia Gleaves
PhD student in Systems Engineering
Research areas: decision-making, Fuzzy Trace theory, spread of online disinformation
Email: lpgleaves@gwu.edu
PhD student in Engineering Management
Research areas: How AI can be integrated into work flows that involve legacy systems and the practical, moral, and security implications of doing so.
Email: asingh25@gwu.edu
Brian Reed
Email: bnr@gwu.edu
Zaid Kbah
PhD student in Engineering Management
Research areas: Research areas: Applications of AI during crisis, humanitarian supply chains, risk management, simulation.
Email: zkbah@gwu.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Research areas:Security, Mobile Authentication and Security, Network Security
Email: aaviv@gwu.edu
Assistant Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Research areas: Choice modeling, market analytics, technological change, electric vehicles, low-carbon energy technologies.
Email: jph@gwu.edu
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research areas: Control, Optimization, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems
Email: pwei@gwu.edu