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Associate Complex Systems Faculty: faculty whose research includes complex systems.
Dennis S. Bernstein
Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Research interests: Linear, nonlinear, and adaptive control systems; linear and nonlinear identification;
compartmental modeling and kinetics; experimental implementation of feedback algorithms for
electromechanical systems with application to control of noise and vibration, aircraft, and spacecraft.
CSCS-related teaching: EECS 580/AE 565 Linear Control Systems, AE 563 Optimal Control Systems
Phone: 764-3719.
e-mail: dsbaero@umich.edu
Anthony Bloch
Professor of Mathematics
Research interests: Dynamics, Nonlinear Control Systems, Hamiltonian Systems.
CSCS-related teaching: Math 558: Ordinary Differential Equations, Math 658: Mechanics and Control
Phone: 647-4980
e-mail: abloch@umich.edu
Home page:
www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~abloch/
James Breck
Institute for Fisheries Research, and Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Natural
Resources and Environment
Research interests: Modeling fish communities in lakes with individual-based models; predator-prey
interactions, contrasting fish-eating and plankton-eating fish; allocation and use of energy in fish during
growth and starvation.
CSCS-related teaching: NRE 425 Applied Population Ecology. Major concepts and models used in
understanding the structure and abundance of animal and plant populations in space and time.
Phone: 663-3554
e-mail: breckj@state.mi.us or
breck@umich.edu
Home page:
www-personal.umich.edu/~breck/
Michael Bretz
Professor of Physics
Research interests: Experimental adsorption physics at low temperatures, fullerene and carbon
nanotubule characterizations, and avalanche dynamics in granular materials. The study of polymer bead chain
aggregates to better understand chain locking, surface roughening and buckling at the onset of 2D
avalanche motion.
Phone: (734)-764-4494
e-mail: mbretz@umich.edu
Homepage: www-personal.umich.edu/~mbretz/
Jason Daida
Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Atmospheric,
Oceanic and Space Sciences; Space Physics Research Laboratory;
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Research interests:My research group is U-M ACERS, Adaptive Computation
in Environmental and Remote Sensing Sciences. Our charter is 1) to
develop flexible and robust computational methods to extract information
from environmental and remotely-sensed data; 2) to conduct basic
research in adaptive computation that can be used in service to
environmental and remote sensing sciences; 3) to nurture and develop
interdisciplinary research skills for each participating student.
CSCS-related teaching: E195, UC280, AOSS 499, AOSS 701.
Phone: 647-4581
e-mail: daida@eecs.umich.edu
Home page: http://www.personal.engin.umich.edu/~daida/
Edmund H. Durfee
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Associate Professor of Information, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Research interests: The understanding and design of practical protocols and representations that lead to
effective patterns of emergent behavior in multi-agent systems, with applications in areas such as electronic
commerce, digital libraries, and cooperative robotics.
CSCS-related teaching: EECS 592 (Advanced Artificial Intelligence), EECS 543 (Knowledge-based
Systems), EECS 492 (Introductory Artificial Intelligence)
Phone: 936-1563
e-mail: durfee@umich.edu
Home page:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/durfee
Geoffrey Gerstner
Associate Professor, Department of Biologic and
Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, Department of Psychology.
Research interests:
(1) Mammalian behavior sequences, empirical models
of pattern formation. (2) Automated behavior-pattern recognition
hardware and software. (3) Physiological bases of rhythmicity and
intermittency in mammalian behavior.
Phone: (734)-763-7717.
Email:
geger@umich.edu
Trachette L. Jackson
Professor of Mathematics
Research interests: The application of ordinary and partial differential
equations, epsecially to modeling the genesis, progression and treatment
of cancer. Current research topics include, multiphase models of tumor
encapsulation, modeling the apoptotic cascade in neuroblastoma cells, and
comparing traditional, one-step, and two-step targeting strategies for
cancer chemotherapy.
CSCS-related teaching: Math 463 (Introduction to Mathematical Biology),
Math 559 (Topics in Applied Mathematics--Advanced Mathematical Methods for the Biological Sciences)
Phone: 764-8537
e-mail: tjacks@math.lsa.umich.edu
Home page:
http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~tjacks
Daniel E. Koditschek
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, AI Lab &
Control Lab
Research interests: Robotics; Applications of dynamical systems theory to programmable machines that
perform physical work.
CSCS-related teaching: EECS 598: Control of Motion in Animals and Machines
Phone: 764-4307
e-mail: kod@umich.edu
Home page:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/kod/kod.html
John E. Laird
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Research interests: The architecture underlying natural and artificial intelligence systems with application
to simulations, robotics, and computer games.
CSCS-related teaching: EECS 592 (Advanced Artificial Intelligence), EECS 543 (Knowledge-based
Systems), EECS 492 (Introductory Artificial Intelligence)
Phone: 647-1761
e-mail: laird@umich.edu
Home page:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/laird
Patrick Nelson
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Research interests: Currently, my research can be divided into two
areas. The first is Applied Mathematics, specifically
the analysis of mathematical models which are applied to biology and
medicine. The second is Mathematical
Biology, specifically the development of models and their application to
the medical field.
CSCS-related teaching: Math 462 (mathematical modeling),
Math 450 (Advanced mathematical methods for engineers),
Math 404 (Applied differential equations)
Phone: 763-3408
e-mail: pwn@math.lsa.umich.edu
Home page:
http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~pwn
Randolplh Nesse
Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Institute for Social Research Evolution and
Human Adaptation Program
Research interests: How natural or artificial adaptive systems are shaped by selection to be vulnerable to
failure. More specifically, Darwinian medicine and the evolutionary origins of maladaptations, especially
depression and the exigencies of the moral passions.
Phone: 764-6593
e-mail: nesse@umich.edu
Homepage: www-personal.umich.edu/~nesse/
Brad Orr
Associate Professor of Physics
Research interests: Applications of atomic scale imaging to surface growth dynamics. One of the most
complicated processes to understand in condensed matter physics is the growth of thin films from the vapor
phase. We have developed a novel application of the scanning tunneling microscope to investigate the
formation of such films. In combination with experiment we use kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to model
the surface evolution in order to determine the most relevant physical processes during growth.
Phone: 936-3609
e-mail: orr@umich.edu
Emre Ozdenoren
Assistant Professor of Economics
Research interests: Microeconomic theory, decision theory, contract theory
and game theory. Currently he works on (1) dynamic models of decision
making in the presence of uncertainty or ambiguity; (2) modeling choice
behavior in a complex environment; (3) auction and bargaining models where
the players are possibly uncertainty averse.
Phone: 647-5606
e-mail: emreo@umich.edu
Homepage: www-personal.umich.edu/~emreo/
Eric Rabkin
Professor of English
CSCS Teaching: English 499 Directed Study: The Genre Evolution Project.
This is collaborative work in the Genre Evolution Project, an attempt to test the hypothesis that cultural
materials in context, just like biological organisms in ecosystems, evolve as complex adaptive systems. Our
test materials are the American science fiction short story of the 20th century. More information can be
found at the project website: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/ge/index.html
Phone: 764-2553
e-mail: esrabkin@umich.edu
Home page:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin
Kalyan Raman
Professor of Marketing
Research interests: Applications of stochastic optimal control to business problems; Dynamic
optimization of the firm's marketing program under uncertainty; Markov models in
marketing; Brownian Motion models in marketing and finance; Game-Theoretic models
in marketing and consumer behavior; Dynamically optimal advertising and pricing
under uncertainty; Integrated Marketing Communications; Supply Chain Management;
Diffusion models; Bayesian decision making; Optimal Stopping rules.
Phone: (810) 762-3289
e-mail: K.Raman@lboro.ac.uk; Old: kalyanr@umich.edu
Paul Resnick
Associate Professor, School of Information
Research interests: analysis and design of distributed reputation systems that attempt to govern behavior
among strangers in on-line environments such as eBay and other auction services.
CSCS-related teaching: SI504: Understanding Networked Computing
Phone: 647-9458
e-mail: presnick@umich.edu
Home page:
http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick
Teresa Satterfield
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Romance Languages
Research Interests: A book on a GA-based model of bilingual language acquisition (published by Kluwer in
1999). Current collaboration with Matthew Murphy on a SWARM agent-based model along the lines of
Epstein & Axtell (1996) which can reconstruct/grow in silico a plausible complex language contact
scenario such as those which occurred in colonial plantation situations with European slave owners and
multiple groups of African slaves. This modeling technique leads to more explicit insights than any
previous historical and linguistic studies into the processes by which certain languages (Creoles) evolved.
CSCS-related teaching: LINGUISTICS 44O: Language Learnability. This course examines learnability, the
goal of explaining and modeling how languages are learnable in the abstract as based on linguistic theory
constructs and language acquisition theory. A number of computational and CS components such as search
and optimization techniques, genetic programming, and neural networks are discussed in this course.
Phone: 647-2158
e-mail: tsatter@umich.edu
Home page:
http://www.umich.edu/~tsatter
Larry Seiford
Professor and Chair of Industrial and Operations Engineering
Interim Director of Financial Engineering
Research interests: quality engineering, productivity analysis,
process improvement, distributed-systems design issues, and
performance measurement. My current research involves the development
of benchmarking models (Data Envelopment Analysis) for identifying
best-practice in manufacturing and service including the financial
services sector and health care delivery systems.
Phone: (734) 764-9422
email: seiford@umich.edu
Charles Sing
Professor of Human Genetics
Research interests: to define the role of genetic variation in determining variation in health in the human
population at large. A critical assumption is that the individual is the fundamental unit of organization of
interacting agents from which measures of health and responses to environments emerge as a dynamic
property during the life cycle. The genome encompasses only one of many classes of agents involved in the
functioning of the complex adaptive system represented by the individual. These agents participate in an
autopoietic, self-organizing, dissipative, and cognitive network represented by the dynamic pattern of the
set of relations among metabolic processes that produce many of the agents. The network is organized
hierarchically and heterarchically into fields of agents defined by domains of relational order in which the
state of any agent at a particular time is a function of the states of neighboring agents.
e-mail: csing@umich.edu
Home page:
http://www.med.umich.edu/hg/singweb.htm
Jun Zhang
Associate Professor of Psychology
Research interests: the general area of neural computation and mathematical psychology, broadly defined
to include theories of neural network, machine learning (e.g., reinforcement learning), dynamical analysis
of nervous system (single neuron activity and event-related potential), computational vision, choice-
reaction time model, Bayesian decision theory and game theory.
CSCS-related teaching: Psych 643 (cross-listed with EECS) "Theory of Neural Computation"; Psych 808
"Advances in Reinforcement Learning"; Psych 721 "Mathematical Psychology"
Phone: 763-6161
e-mail: junz@umich.edu
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