Jeffrey V. Nickerson is an Associate Professor in the Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. He is the Director of the Center for Decision Technologies. His research interests include Human-Robot Interaction, Social Network Analysis, and Sensor Network Design. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University.
Tal Ben-Zvi is an Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Management, an M.B.A. in Information Systems and Operations Research and a Ph.D. in Information Systems, all from Tel-Aviv University. His main research interests are Decision Support Systems, Simulations, Network Models, Data Mining and Operations Management Models.
Tom Carton is the Project Coordinator, Center for Decision Technologies. He holds an M.P.A. and Ph.D., both from New York University. A Ford Foundation Fellowship funded Tom’s doctoral work. His bachelor’s degree is in political science from Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ.
Irina Goldman is a Ph.D. candidate at Stevens Institute of Technology. She received her M. Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Her research interests are concentrated in the area of operation research, especially optimization problems for the cooperative behavior, optimal placement task for the mobile autonomous vehicles and underwater communication and motion of autonomous vehicles.
Yasuaki Sakamoto is a Research Assistant Professor in the Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. He studies human and machine learning in the Center for Decision Technologies, directed by Dr. Jeff Nickerson, with primary emphases on developing computer programs that behave in a similar fashion as humans and devising methods for improving human performances. His research is based on human experimentation and computational modeling. Yasu received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a member of the Computation and Cognitive Processes lab, directed by Dr. Brad Love. His undergraduate work in Psychology was done at Indiana University at Bloomington, where he worked in the Percepts and Concepts lab, directed by Dr. Rob Goldstone.
Hongyuan Shi is a Research Associate at the Howe School of Technology Management, Center for Decision Technologies. Before joining Stevens, she was with the Department of Computer Sciences and Computer Engineering at the Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, as a visiting assistant professor. Her research interests include network architecture design, resource allocation and optimization for various information networks, complex system design and modeling. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, focusing on computer network architecture design. She graduated with a B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Winston C. Yang is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Howe School of Technology Management, Center for Decision Technologies. He recieved his B.S. in Mathematics from the Califormia Institute of Technology, and went to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science in optimization (math programming).
Doris Zahner is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Howe School of Technology Management, Center for Decision Technologies. She has a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Educational Psychology, an M.S. in Applied Statistics and an M.A. in Cognitive Studies in Education, also from Columbia University, and a B.S. in Educational Psychology from Cornell University.
