Sean Luke, PhD
Research Focus Sean Luke is the head of the George Mason University Autonomous Robotics Laboratory. He has taught at George Mason University since 2000. His areas of interest and expertise include stochastic optimization and metaheuristics, evolutionary computation, multi-agent systems and multi-agent learning, autonomous robotics and robot swarms, and simulation development. He is the author of Essentials […]
Philip Auerswald, PhD
Research Focus Philip Auerswald is an associate professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government. His work is about entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation in a global context. He is most recently the author of The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History (Oxford University Press, 2017), a book about how the advance of code has driven the development of […]
Paulo Costa, PhD
Research Focus Paulo Costa is the Director of GMU’s Center of Excellence in C5I and Vice President for Securing Automation and Supply Chain Security with DOE’s Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute. He has applied his significant experience as a fighter pilot to a career specializing in the field of electronic warfare and flight safety, which in […]
Parth Pathak, PhD
Research Focus Parth Pathak’s research focuses on making mobile systems more accessible, robust, and pervasive. His research strives to design novel mobile and ubiquitous computing solutions that can enable high-speed wireless network connectivity at lower energy cost and accomplish complex sensing tasks through low-cost, low-power computing. His current research includes design of multi-gigabit millimeter wave […]
Pallab Sanyal, PhD
Research Focus My research objective is to understand how people make decisions in complex economic institutions and how the decisions are influenced by the design of the institution. The advancements of information technology coupled with the proliferation of the internet have expanded the capabilities of economic mechanisms and have opened the way for sophisticated but […]
Mingzhen Tian, PhD
Research Focus Currently focused on rare-earth based solid state quantum memory and quantum computation, which are the important components in developing quantum information science and technology. The research also include investigation of laser spectroscopic properties of rare-earth ions trapped in inorganic crystal lattice at cryogenic temperature, the coherent and incoherent processes under the excitation of composite laser pulses, […]
Min Chen, PhD
Research Focus Chen’s research interests include agency problems in online advertising, economics of information systems, and optimization models. His research has been published in Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Information Systems Research (ISR), and MIS Quarterly. He has presented his research at various conferences, including International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Workshop on Information Technology and […]
Michael Summers, PhD
Research Focus I am a planetary scientist who studies the composition and evolution of planets and their atmospheres. My research has encompassed many of the planets and moons in our solar system, planets that orbit distant stars, as well as rogue planets that exist between the stars. I have participated in a variety of NASA […]
Michael King, PhD
Research Focus Michael A. King holds Ph.D. in Business Information Technology/Decision Sciences from the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He also holds a Master’s of Science in Management of Information Technology from the University of Virginia, a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro […]
Timothy Leslie, PhD
Research Focus Following his initial research in the knowledge economy, Dr. Leslie’s urban work began through the characterization and investigation of multiple elements of the economy of Phoenix Arizona, where general and sectoral-specific analysis of Phoenix has shown a substantial structure to the postmodern metropolis. These studies inspired the development of the Co-Location Quotient (CLQ), a metric of […]
