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)
✅	✅	✅	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)
⛔	✅	⛔	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