Team Members

Faculty


Dr.James T.Luxhoj, Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University

Dr.David Coit, Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University 

 
Current Graduate Students
(click for resume)

Ahmet Emre Oztekin, A Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) Approach to Accident Scenario Knowledge Management (PHD)

Chad Bareither, M.S. student, Sensitivty Analysis of ASRM Models
(degree expected May 2006)

Joseph Irgon, M.S. student via UMDNJ-GSBS, Lead Programmer (ASRM) and Webmaster
(degree expected December 2005)

Katie Lechner, M.S. student

Varun Sharma, M.S. student, CPAS 

Current Undergraduate Students

Cara Lee

Gregory Varshansky
 

Former Students of Dr. James T. Luxhøj
Master’s Engineering Project Reports

Jeffrey Kolbrener (Engineering Project Report), 1991

Publication : Luxhøj, James T., "Evaluation of Alternative Transition Strategies for Advanced Technology Systems", International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1994), pp. 81-94.

Jiangfeng Cheng (Engineering Project Report), 1997

Publication : Luxhøj, James T., and Jiangfeng Cheng, “Neural Network Modeling of Aviation Safety Field Studies”, Proceedings of the 7th Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Banff , Alberta , Canada , May 9-10, 1998 .

Kapil S. Bansal (Engineering Project Report), 1998

Publication : Luxhøj, James T., Donald N. Arendt, Choopavang, Apichart, Kapil Bansal, and Theodore G. Horton, “An Aviation System Safety Model for Improved Risk Management”, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL’99, Munich , Germany , September 13-17, 1999 , pp. 1285-1290.

Atul Deshmukh (Engineering Project Report), 2000

Publication : Luxhøj, James T. and Atul R. Deshmukh, “Forecasting of a Safety Risk Metric for an Aircraft Operator,” The 2000 International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems, Cocoa Beach , Florida , March 13-15, 2000 .

Ram Kuturu (Engineering Project Report), 2004

Publication : Kuturu, Ram, and James T. Luxhøj, “Decision Support for Conditional Probability Elicitation in Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs),” submitted to 10th International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems, Cocoa Beach . FL, March 15-17, 2004 .

Nathan Greenhut, Advanced Visualization Methods and Sensitivity Analyses for Executive Information Systems ( degree expected May 2005)

Denise Andres, Development of a Post-Crash Outcome Model for Aircraft Accident Severity Assessment (degree expected May 2005)

Master's Theses

Apichart Choopavang, A Bayesian Approach to Causal Modeling of Organizational Factors in Aircraft Accidents , August 2000

(Ph.D. student, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Stevens Institute of Technology)

Chakradhar Agava, A Decision-Analytic Framework for Creating Risk Intelligence in the Gas Path of an Aircraft Engine, July 2001

(Aviation Research Analyst, Hi-Tec Systems, FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic City , NJ )

Muhammad Naiman Jalil, A Probabilistic Decision Support System (PDSS) for Evaluating the Impact of Technology Insertion on Aviation Safety System Risk (October 2003)

Erim Kardes, Hierarchical Bayesian Belief Networks for Advanced Safety Risk Modeling (May 2004)

(Ph.D. student, ISE, University of Southern California )

 

Dissertations

Huan-Jyh Shyur, A General Nonparametric Model for Accelerated Life Testing With Time-Dependent Covariates , October 1996 (co-advisor with E.A. Elsayed)

(Assistant Professor, Department of Information Management, Tamkang University , Taipei , Taiwan )

Yuxien (Andrew) Cheng, Statistical Process Control forComplex Settings and the Establishment of Threshold Systems, January 1999 (co-advisor with R. Liu)

(Aviation Research Analyst, Hi-Tec Systems, FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic City , NJ )

Lars Nordmann, Diagnostic and Reduction Techniques for Assessing the Relative Information Content of Performance Measures, May 2001

(Systems Analyst, AT&T Research Labs, NJ)

Veeris Ammarapala, A ClusterGroup Decision Support System for Multi-Criteria Risk Management, October 2002

(Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion (OSMEP), Bangkok , Thailand )

 

Fellowships

 

NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) ($24,000) - Renewal, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, June 1, 2004 - May 31, 2005 (M.S. thesis advisor for Mr. Nathan Greenhut – transfer from Ryan Dickey to Nathan Greenhut).

NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) ($24,000), NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, June 1, 2003 - May 31, 2004 (M.S. thesis advisor for Mr. Ryan Dickey).

 

Undergraduate Research Fellows Directed

 

Laura Pfeifer

Theordore G. Horton, FAA/Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow, 1997-99

Daniel Horowitz (Honors Candidacy, 1997)

Kenneth Wang, FAA/Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow, 1998-2000

Rishi Hinduja, UPS/Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow, 2000-2001

    • “Modeling of Organizational Risk Factors in Aviation”, University of Sao Paolo.
    • Undergraduate Research Symposia, Brazil , Nov. 6-10, 2000 (travel grant)

Michele Maurino, FAA/Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow, 2000-2002

Kimberlee E. Kauffeld, FAA/NASA/Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow, 2002-2003

Huda Hadi, Lockheed Martin/NASA/Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow, 2003-2004