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Zdenek Bažant
McCormick Institute Professor; Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, and Engineering
Phone: 847-491-4025
emailResearch areas: Mechanics of materials and structures and structural safety; nanomechanics; hygrothermal effects; applications to concrete, fiber composites, tough ceramics, rocks, soils, bone, snow, and sea ice
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Research areas: Evolution of subcommunities within cities; redevelopment of cities; history of transportation relating to growth of cities
Affiliations:
- Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
David E. Boyce
Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Professor Emeritus
Phone: 847-570-9501
emailResearch areas: Urban travel and location forecasting models; transportation network analysis and modeling; history of urban travel forecasting methods
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
- University of Illinois at Chicago
Research areas: Applied microeconomic theory and industrial organization; regulatory economics
Affiliations:
- Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Research areas: Design, deployment, and evaluation of large-scale distributed systems in both wide-area and mobile networks; experimental systems, particularly operating systems and distributed computing
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Research areas: Marketing and communications; crisis management and communications; humanitarian logistics, stakeholder relationship management; political and deceptive messages and advertising; China management education and training
Affiliations:
- Medill School of Journalism
Wei Chen
Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design; Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Phone: 847-491-7019
emailResearch areas: Discrete choice analysis and network analysis for consumer preference modeling; multidisciplinary design optimization; simulation-based design under uncertainty; enterprise-driven decision-based design
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Research areas: Data Analytics for Transportation Application; Connected Vehicles and Smart Cities; Big Social Media Data Mining for Travelers’ Behavior;Travel Demand & Behavior Modeling; Large-scale Transportation Network Modeling and Analysis; Agent-based Modeling and Visualization
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Sunil Chopra
IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management & Information Systems, Department of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
Phone: 847-491-8169
emailResearch areas: Supply chain management and operations; design of communication and distribution networks; supply chain risk
Affiliations:
- Kellogg School of Management
Research Areas: Library instruction, research, and reference support; Social media, exhibit curation, and outreach related to special collections; Transportation history
Affiliations:
- Northwestern University Libraries
J. Edward Colgate
Allen and Johnnie Breed Senior Professor in Design; Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Director, Master of Science in Engineering Design & Innovation (EDI) program ; Research Council Member, Segal Design Institute
Phone: 847-491-4264
emailResearch areas: Human-machine interface; haptics; mechatronic systems
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
James G. Conley
Clinical Professor of Technology, Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences; Clinical Professor of Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy)
Phone: 847-491-4814
emailResearch areas: Product design and development technologies; intellectual property strategies; intellectual capital; innovation management
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
- Kellogg School of Management
Noshir Contractor
Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences; Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Science; Professor of Communication Studies
Phone: 847-491-3669
emailResearch areas: Social and knowledge networks; statistical and computational methods; organizational theory
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
- School of Communication
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Anne Coughlan
Professor Emeritus, John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Marketing
Phone: 847-491-2719
emailResearch areas: Distribution channel management and design; pricing strategy; reverse channels for product returns; competitive strategy
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
- Kellogg School of Management
Research areas: Mechanics of infrastructure materials and constitutive modeling of concrete and cementitious composites
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Research areas: Environmental and land use law, regulation, and policy, particularly methods of allocating carbon credits; regulation and technological change in the automobile industry; eminent domain reform and urban sprawl
Affiliations:
- Pritzker School of Law
Research areas: Construction vibrations; structural health monitoring; subsurface exploration decisions
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
David Dunand
James N. & Margie M. Krebs Professor of Materials Science & Engineering; Co-Director
Phone: 847-491-5370
emailResearch areas: Lightweight metallic materials for energy-efficient transportation; high-temperature alloys for energy-efficient internal-combustion and jet engines
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
- Initiative for Sustainability & Energy at Northwestern (ISEN)
Research areas: Transportation infrastructure management; modeling and analysis of production control systems; capacity management; statistical performance modeling; contract analysis and design
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Research areas: Visual cognition; guidance, capture, and tracking of visual attention and awareness; effective visual design
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Research areas: Macroeconomic theory; monetary theory; airline economics; airline management; airline history; airline customer experience
Affiliations:
- Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Research areas: Urban sustainability; brownfield and urban redevelopment; environmental impacts of transportation on ecological and human health; energy-efficient technology
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Mike Hewitt
Associate Professor, Information Systems and Supply Chain Management - Quinlan School of Business
Phone: 312-915-7394
emailResearch areas: Freight transportation, Supply chain management, Workforce planning, Integer programming
Affiliations:
- Loyola University Chicago
Paul M. Hirsch
James Allen Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Organizations; Chair, Management and Organizations Department
Phone: 847- 491-8069
emailResearch areas: Organizational change; human resources and mass media
Affiliations:
- Kellogg School of Management
Research areas: Econometrics; travel demand modeling; urban transportation; air quality
Affiliations:
- Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Agnes Horvat
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, School of Communication
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), affiliated faculty
Kellogg School of Management, by courtesy
Phone: 847-467-6465
emailResearch areas: Complex Networks, Collective Intelligence, Computational Social Science, Data Science
Affiliations:
- Kellogg School of Management
- School of Communication
- Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Thomas N. Hubbard
Elinor & H. Wendell Hobbs Professor of Management; Senior Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives; Senior Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives
Phone: 847-467-6598
emailResearch areas: Industrial organization; trucking industry; economics of strategy; applied econometrics; economics of technology
Affiliations:
- Kellogg School of Management
John C. Hudson
Professor of Anthropology; Director, Geography Program; Associate Director, Environmental Sciences Program
Phone: 847-491-2855
emailResearch areas: Cultural and physical geography of North America; biogeography; economic geography; cartography and mapping; geographic information systems
Affiliations:
- Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Research areas: Transportation in urban areas; public policy; urban sociology; community; ethnicity, culture and literature; methods
Affiliations:
- Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Research areas: Logistics; applied microeconomic analysis; routing and risk analysis; facility locations; plant and equipment investment and replacement
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Research areas: Stochastic modeling and analysis; production and logistics; optimization of queuing systems; manufacturing and supply chain management; white collar work and service operations systems; analysis of integrated production and maintenance policies
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Bret Johnson
Director, Center for the Commercialization of Innovative Transportation Technology (CCITT); Associate Director, Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC)
Phone: 847-491-2194
emailResearch areas: Technology transfer and commercialization; technology-based economic development; space and technology innovation policy; homeland security
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
- Farley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Center for the Commercialization of Innovative Transportation Technology (CCITT)
Richard Joseph
John Evans Professor of International History and Politics; Faculty Affiliate, Buffett Center of International and Comparative Studies; Senior Fellow
Phone: 847-491-2595
emailResearch areas: Growth, governance, and sustainable development; comparative democratization; African politics; HIV prevention strategies; energy, environment and transportation
Affiliations:
- Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
- The Brookings Institution
William L. Kath
Professor, Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics; Center for Photonic Computing & Communication; Professor, Neurobiology & Physiology
Phone: 847-491-3345
emailResearch areas: Computational neuroscience; fiber optics; wave propagation; nonlinear dynamics; complex systems
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
- Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Diego Klabjan
Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences; Director, Master of Science in Analytics Program
Phone: 847-491-0663
emailResearch areas: Business intelligence and analytics in air transportation; logistics; railway industry; retail; supply chain management
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Research areas: Travel demand modeling and prediction; yield management; urban, regional, and intercity transportation planning; development of advanced travel demand modeling concepts and methods
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Raymond J. Krizek
Stanley Pepper Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Director, Master of Project Management Program
Phone: 847-491-4040
emailResearch areas: Injectability and mechanical properties of grouted sands; disposal of waste slurries; problems involving soil-structure interaction; engineering behavior of dredged materials;dynamic response of soils
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Hani S. Mahmassani
William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Director, Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC)
Phone: 847-491-2276
emailResearch areas: Dynamic traffic system management; network modeling and optimization; dynamics of user behavior and telematics; intermodal freight and logistics
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Therese McGuire
ConAgra Foods Research Professor in Strategic Management; Director, Guthrie Center for Real Estate Research and Real Estate Program
Phone: 847-491-8683
emailResearch areas: State and local public finance; fiscal decentralization; property tax limitations: education finance; regional economic development
Affiliations:
- Kellogg School of Management
Research areas: Stochastic optimization and its application to energy, security, and health problems
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Barry L. Nelson
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
Phone: 847-491-3747
emailResearch areas: Computer simulation of dynamic, stochastic systems; design and analysis of simulation experiments
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Research areas: Network optimization; traffic flow theory; traffic simulation
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Maciek Nowak
Associate Professor, Information Systems & Supply Chain Management; Associate Professor, Quinlan School of Business; Director, Master of of Science in Supply Chain Management Program
Phone: 312-915-7654
emailResearch areas: Vehicle routing and tracking; supply chain management; operations management and research; logistics and data analysis; quantitative methods; heuristic search
Affiliations:
- Loyola University Chicago
Thomas O'Toole
Executive Director, Program for Data Analytics at Kellogg
Clinical Professor of Marketing
Phone: 847-467-8660
emailResearch areas: Connecting data science to business value creation, data-driven marketing, customer value management, digital business models, the emergent structure of marketing and loyalty programs
Affiliations:
- Kellogg School of Management
Research areas: Theoretical and policy issues relating to network industries (telecommunication, electric transport, air transport, and postal services); industrial organization; regulatory economics; applied microeconomic theory
Affiliations:
- Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Research areas: Organic electronics and photovoltaics; energy storage materials, particularly electrochemical; energy concentration routes, including exciton fission; agent-based modeling of complex systems
Affiliations:
- Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
- Institute for Sustainability & Energy at Northwestern (ISEN)
Research areas: Impact of sleep loss and circadian disruption on human performance; health and safety; impact of shiftwork
Affiliations:
- Feinberg School of Medicine
Ian Savage
Associate Chair, Department of Economics; Professor of Instruction
Phone: 847-491-8241
emailResearch areas: Transportation safety; transportation economics; urban transit
Affiliations:
- Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Mohanbir S. Sawhney
McCormick Foundation Chair of Technology; Clinical Professor of Marketing; Director, Center for Research in Technology & Innovation
Phone: 847-491-2713
emailResearch areas: Business Innovation, Digital and Social Media Marketing, Network-Centric Innovation, Growth and Scaling Strategies
Affiliations:
- Kellogg School of Management
Research areas: Transportation policy analysis and planning; Uses of data and information in decision making; Issues and factors in investment decisions; Managing transportation systems in an uncertain world
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Karen Smilowitz
James N. and Margie M. Krebs Professor in Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
Phone: 847-491-4693
emailResearch areas: Design and operations of logistics network; vehicle routing and scheduling; supply-chain management; applications in commercial and non-profit settings
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Amanda Stathopoulos
William A. Patterson Junior Professorship Chair; Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Phone: 847-491-5629
emailResearch areas: Transportation choice modeling and forecasting
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Gunnar Stefánsson
Professor, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science
Phone: +354 525 5166
emailResearch areas: Political science, public opinion, and policy; intersection of security and domestic politics, civil liberties, right to travel, and travel privacy, security and identification policies; housing and community development; transportation articulation
Affiliations:
- University of Iceland
Fred Turek
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Biology, Department of Neurobiology; Director, Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology
Phone: 847-491-2865
emailResearch areas: Sleep and circadian rhythms; metabolic, neurodegenerative and gastrointestinal disorders
Affiliations
- Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Brian Uzzi
Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership & Organizational Change; Co-Director, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO); Faculty Director, Kellogg Architectures of Collaboration Initiative (KACI); Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, McCormick School (Courtesy); Professor of Sociology, Weinberg College (Courtesy)
Phone: 847-491-8072
emailResearch areas: Social network science and computational methods as predictors for outstanding human achievement
Affiliations:
- Kellogg School of Management
- Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Jan A. Van Mieghem
Harold L. Stuart Professor of Managerial Economics; Professor of Operations Management, Department of Managerial Economics & Decision Science
Phone: 847-491-5481
emailResearch areas: Logistics and transportation management, collaboration management, Information and communication systems, management of technology and economics
Affiliations:
- University of Iceland
- Kellogg School of Management
Michael Watson
Adjunct Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences; Adjunct Professor, Master of Engineering Management Program; Adjunct Professor, Master of Science in Analytics Program
Phone: 847-491-3383
emailResearch areas: Supply chain network design; facility location; analytics
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Research areas: Tranportation planning; Professional practice; Travel demand forecasting; Freight modeling; Geographic information systems (GIS)
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Research areas: the interplay between technological innovation and socio-economic systems (urbanisation, economic diversity and specialisation, invention activity, future of work)
Affiliations:
- Kellogg School of Management
Qi Zhu
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science
Research areas: design automation of intelligent cyber-physical systems and Internet-of-Things applications, cyber-physical security, energy-efficient CPS, and system-on-chip design
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science