Advisor Eligibility
Important:
This list only indicates ELIGIBILITY to advise, not AVAILABILITY. You will need to contact the faculty individually to see if they are available.
Please see below for all Systems Engineering Department faculty members. Those who are permanently unable to serve are noted.
You may utilize the CSU Directory for additional contact information.
Systems Engineering Core Faculty
Eligible to be PhD Advisor? | Eligible to be PhD Committee Member? | Eligible to be Master’s Advisor? | Name | Title | Primary Department | Specialization(s) |
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✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Adams, Jim | Assistant Professor | Systems Engineering | Satellite Systems |
⛔ | ⛔ | ✅ | Batchelor, Ann | Assistant Professor | Systems Engineering | Engineering Project and Program Management |
⛔ | ⛔ | ⛔ | Borky, John “Mike” | Professor of Practice | Systems Engineering | Systems Architecture and Model-Based Systems Engineering |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Bradley, Thomas | Professor and Department Head | Systems Engineering | Energy and Resource Systems, Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Cale, James | Associate Professor | Systems Engineering | Energy Systems Integration |
⛔ | ✅ | ✅ | Coburn, Tim | Professor | Systems Engineering | Energy and Transportation Analytics, Energy Economics and Policy Analysis, Energy Operations and Systems, Management Science, Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Resource Assessment, Energy Infrastructure |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Conrad, Steve | Associate Professor | Systems Engineering | Water, Energy, and Resource Systems, Human Factors, Coupled Systems Modeling, Decision Analysis/Support Systems |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Daily, Jeremy | Associate Professor | Systems Engineering | Heavy Vehicle Systems – Cybersecurity & Forensics |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Herber, Daniel | Assistant Professor | Systems Engineering | Design Optimization, Systems Architecture, Dynamics/Controls |
⛔ | ⛔ | ✅ | Marzolf, Greg (Bo) | Assistant Professor | Systems Engineering | Department of Defense Resiliency Efforts, Government Emergency Management/Response Architectures, and Controls on Complex Emergent system Behaviors |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Miller, Erika | Assistant Professor | Systems Engineering | Transportation Systems, Human Factors, Safety |
⛔ | ⛔ | ⛔ | Sega, Ron | Professor (on leave starting Fall 2019) | Systems Engineering | |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Shahroudi, Kamran | Professor | Systems Engineering | System Architecture, Multidisciplinary System Design Optimization |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Simske, Steve | Professor | Systems Engineering | Analytics, Intelligent Systems, Sensing Systems, Imaging Systems, Cybersecurity, and Situationally-Aware Collectors of Knowledge (SACKs) in robotics |
Systems Engineering Associated Faculty
Please note: Faculty listed as ‘Associated’ have a joint appointment in SE but a primary home department elsewhere. These faculty may serve as ‘SE’ members on committees and may not serve as an ‘outside member’ for SE students.
Eligible to be PhD Advisor? | Eligible to be PhD Committee Member? | Eligible to be Master’s Advisor? | Name | Title | Primary Department | Specialization(s) |
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⛔ | ✅ | ⛔ | Anderson, Charles (Chuck) | Professor | Computer Science | Machine Learning |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Butler, Charles | Professor | Computer Information Systems | Information Technology |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Carlson, Kenneth | Professor | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Water and Wastewater Related Issues |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Chan, Joshua | Assistant Professor | Chemical and Biological Engineering | Modeling and Engineering Microbiomes |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Chitsaz, Hamid | Assistant Professor | Computer Science | Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Motion Planning, Mobile Robotics |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Chong, Edwin | Professor | Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mathematics | Control/Optimization and Wireless Networks |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Collins, George | Professor | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Semiconductor Processing and Power Electronics |
⛔ | ⛔ | ⛔ | Duff, William | Emeritus Professor | Mechanical Engineering | |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Ghosh, Sudipto | Professor | Computer Science | Software engineering, Model-based software development, Software testing |
⛔ | ✅ | ✅ | Golicic, Susan | Department Head and Director, Supply Chain Management Forum | Management | Sustainability and Innovation in the Supply Chain |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Grigg, Neil | Professor | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Infrastructure and Utility Management |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Jayasumana, Anura | Professor | Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science | Digital Systems and Communication Networks |
⛔ | ⛔ | ⛔ | Labadie, John | Professor and Coordinator, Water Resources Planning and Management Division | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Systems Analysis and Operations Research |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Maciejewski, Anthony | Department Head and Professor | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Robotics and High Performance Computing |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Malaiya, Yashwant | Professor | Computer Science | Testing, Reliability, and Security |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Olsen, Dan | Associate Professor | Mechanical Engineering | Engines and Energy |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Ortega, Francisco | Assistant Professor | Computer Science | |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Pasricha, Sudeep | Associate Professor and Chair of Computer Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems, IoT and Mobile Computing, Datacenter Computing |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Peccoud, Jean | Professor and Abell Endowed Chair in Synthetic Biology | Chemical and Biological Engineering | Biomanufacturing, Bioinformatics, Security |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Quinn, Jason | Associate Professor | Mechanical Engineering | Life-Cycle Assessment, Techno-Economic Assessment, System Optimization |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Radford, Donald | Professor | Mechanical Engineering | Composite Materials Technology |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Ray, Indrakshi | Professor | Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering | Security and Privacy, Database Systems, Software Engineering |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Roberts, Nick | Associate Professor | Computer Information Systems | Information Technology and Project Management |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Troxell, Wade | Associate Professor and Director, Center for Networked Distributed Energy and RamLab | Mechanical Engineering | Intelligent Robotic Systems, Distributed Application Architectures |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Valdes Vasquez, Rodolfo | Associate Professor; Graduate Program Coordinator | Construction Management | Sustainable Development, Net-Zero/Net-Positive Buildings and Communities, Social Sustainability in the Construction Sector |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Venkatachalam, Chandrasekaran (Chandra) | University Distinguished Professor | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Signal Processing, Radar Systems, UAVs |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Willson, Bryan | Professor | Mechanical Engineering | Engines and Energy |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Young, Peter | Professor | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Robust and Learning Control, Clean Energy Systems |
⛔ | ✅ | ⛔ | Zimmerle, Dan | Sr. Research Associate and Systems R&D Manager | Mechanical Engineering | Power Systems |