Agrawal, Arun
School of Natural Resources & Environment (SNRE)
Professor and Associate Dean for Research

Research Interests: Political Economy, Environmental Governance, Community-Based Conservation, Indigenous Knowledge, Decentralization, Local Governance, Institutional Analysis More information: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~arunagra/

Aiello, Alison
School of Public Health (Epidemiology)
John G. Searle Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Hand hygiene interventions in the community setting, social and life course determinants of infectious diseases, antibacterial soap use and antimicrobial resistance, the link between infections and chronic diseases, efficacy of hand hygiene and mask use for reducing influenza transmission in the community setting (The M-Flu Study). More information: http://www.sph.umich.edu/iscr/faculty/profile.cfm?uniqname=aielloa

Axelrod, Robert
Political Science and School of Public Policy
Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Professor for the Study of Human Understanding

Research Interests: Professor Axelrod's principal interests include math models (especially computer simulation), international security affairs, and complexity theory. His main current projects are in emergent properties of social systems (including culture, institutions, and communications), and in the political and social effects of the information revolution. More information: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/

Brown, Dan
School of Natural Resources & Environment (SNRE)
Professor, SNRE and Director, Environmental Spatial Analysis Laboratory

Research Interests: Research focuses on linking landscape patterns with ecological and social processes. Particular focus is on land-use and land-cover dynamics and makes use of multiple methods, including GIS, remote sensing, digital terrain analysis, ecological mapping, social surveys and statistics, and computer simulation. Specific projects focus on the interacting social and ecological aspects of land use and cover change in rural and peri-urban environments, land use and vulnerability to flooding in China, and spatial and social effects on health. More information: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~danbrown/

Cohen, Michael D.
School of Information and Ford School of Public Policy
William D. Hamilton Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Information and Public Policy

Research interests: Organizational learning and routines and their interactions with information technology. Research using laboratory studies, field studies, and computational models. Major recent application area: handoffs in hospitals. More information: http://mdc.people.si.umich.edu/

Currie, Bill
School of Natural Resources & Environment (SNRE)
Associate Professor, SNRE

Research Interests: have a background in ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry (nutrient and carbon cycling), energetics, systems dynamics modeling and individual-based modeling. I am interested in taking what we know from these fields to investigate ecosystem change and dynamics when linked to human resource use and human impacts on the environment. I have a growing interest in exploring how human decision-making frameworks, including economics, can be linked with our understanding of ecosystems to study long-term impacts on ecosystem integrity. Interdisciplinary synthesis is another interest; I like to work with collaborators on a range of issues that cross traditional fields. More information: http://www.snre.umich.edu/profile/wcurrie

Davis, Gerald (Jerry)
School of Business Administration
Wilber K. Pierpont Collegiate Professor of Management

Research Interests: Davis’s research is broadly concerned with corporate governance and the effects of finance on society. Recent writings examine why companies choose the kinds of directors they do and what effect they have; which kinds of countries open stock exchanges, and what makes them successful; what consolidation in the US banking industry has meant for banks' global branch networks and their boards of directors; how increased household participation in the stock market has led to changes in the ownership and control of US firms; how conflicts of interest affect the ways mutual funds vote their shares in annual elections; the effects of social movements on what multinational companies do; and how ideas about corporate social responsibility have evolved to meet changes in the structures and geographic footprint of multinationals. More information:http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/gfdavis/articles.htm

Dempsey, Amanda
School of Medicine (Pediatrics), M.D.
Assistant Professor

Research interests: The development of policies and implementation strategies for adolescent immunization, and on understanding the biologic and clinical effects of these interventions. More information: http://www.med.umich.edu/mott/research/chearinvestigators.html

Durfee, Edmund
EECS & School of Information
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering

Research Interests: My research centers around intelligent coordination among multiple (semi)-autonomous systems, involving the proactive selection (planning) of physical, communicative, and/or computational actions that improve performance in a multiagent context. My work thus is concerned with how artificial agents should decide what courses of action to commit to given a multiagent world, how they should meet those commitments (including meeting real-time constraints), and how they should revise and renegotiate their commitments based on unexpected events in their environment. More information: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/durfee/

Eisenburg, Joseph
School of Public Health (Epidemiology)
Associate Professor

Research Interests: Dr. Eisenberg studies infectious disease epidemiology with a focus on waterborne and vectorborne diseases. His broad research interests integrates theoretical work in developing disease transmission models and empirical work in designing and conducting epidemiology studies. Specifically he has been interested in the environmental determinants of infectious diseases, and currently has a project in Ecuador studying how changes in the social and natural environment, mediated by road construction, affect the epidemiology of pathogens causing diarrheal diseases. Dr. Eisenberg also has an ongoing collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene group exploring how to integrate disease transmission models and multi-country survey data, to help inform regional and national decisions on public health policy making. Dr. Eisenberg's domestic interest has been focused on the development of a new microbial risk assessment framework that shifts the traditional approach of individual-based static models to population-based dynamic models. In coordination with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), this work has led him to apply these disease transmission models to assess the public health risk from exposures to microbial agents in drinking waters, recreational waters, and biosolids. More information: http://www.sph.umich.edu/iscr/faculty/profile.cfm?uniqname=jnse

Foxman, Betsy
School of Public Health (Epidemiology)
Professor

Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases, particularly infectious agents causing urinary tract infection, otitis media, lactation mastitis and vaginitis. Other interest include sexual behavior, antibiotic resistance and translation of epidemiologic information to policy. More information: http://www.sph.umich.edu/iscr/faculty/profile.cfm?uniqname=bfoxman

Gladwin, Tom
School of Natural Resources & Environment (SNRE) and School of Business Administration
Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise

Research Interests: Thomas Gladwin’s current and future research centers on establishing and promulgating a science of sustainable enterprise, a new transdisciplinary field addressing relationships among ecosystems, social systems, economic systems and organizational systems. Ongoing research topics include transformational leadership for sustainable development, standards and metrics of sustainable business, biomimetic design of industrial organizations, sustainable cognition and ecological design intelligence, socially and environmentally sustainable economic globalization, business impact on biodiversity, sustainable mobility, corporate responses to global climate change, and understanding human organizations as living systems. More information: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000154957

Holland, John H.
Psychology and EECS
Professor

Research Interests: John Holland is a MacArthur Fellow, a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and co-chairman of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute. He is known worldwide as the "father of genetic algorithms" and is the author of “Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity”. His research interests include the study of cognitive processes and complex adaptive systems in general, using mathematical models and computer simulation. More information: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=jholland

Kaplan, George
Epidemiology, Professor
Research Professor, SRC

Research Interests: Recent studies by Kaplan and his colleagues have detailed the cumulative cost of socioeconomic disadvantage on health and functional outcomes in the elderly and the role of equity in the distribution of income on the overall health of populations. Both areas of research are directed at establishing the close linkage between economic policy and health policy, thereby illustrating how epidemiologic methods can be used to guide research and policy in this area. Professor Kaplan and colleagues have also made important contributions in demonstrating the importance of behavioral and psychosocial factors in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and its consequences. Advancing the epidemiologic study of aging, he and his colleagues published the first studies on long-term predictors of both successful aging and of frailty, and have continued to demonstrate in their studies that it is possible to extend both quality and length of life. Other interests include Michigan Interdisciplinary Center on Social Inequalities, Mind, and Body (P.I.), Health of Women under Chronic Economic Stress (P.I.), Pathways to Health and Function (P.I.), Alameda County Study (P.I.), Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Study (P.I.), Economic Equity and Health (P.I.), Chicago Community Adult Health Study (co-I). More information: http://www.sph.umich.edu/iscr/faculty/profile.cfm?uniqname=gkaplan

King, Aaron
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) and Mathematics
Assistant Professor, EEB and Mathematics

Research Interests: In the King Lab, we use sophisticated mathematical, computational, and statistical tools to advance theoretical ecology and evolution. We formalize scientific hypotheses as mathematical models to make precise predictions and powerful inference. One major focus of our research is the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. We formulate mathematical models and confront them with data to learn about the mechanisms that operate in the host-pathogen interaction and about how they are likely to evolve. Students and postdocs in the lab have a wide range of interests; the common thread is the use of rigorous theoretical approaches on fundamental questions in ecology and evolutionary biology. More information: http://kinglab.eeb.lsa.umich.edu/king/front

Kirschner, Denise
School of Medicine (Microbiology & Immunology)
Professor, Microbiology

Research Interests: Interest in Microbial Pathogenesis - TB, HIV, and H. pylori Interest in Nonlinear Dynamical and Complex Systems, and Chaos Interest in Bioinformatics here at University of Michigan. More information: http://malthus.micro.med.umich.edu/

Kollman, Ken
Political Science
Professor

Research Interests: Ken Kollman is currently Acting Vice Provost for International Affairs, and Acting Director of the International Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also Professor of Political Science and Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies in the Institute for Social Research. His research and teaching focus on political parties, elections, lobbying, federal systems, formal modeling, and complexity theory. He is writing a book on centralization in federated institutions, which includes analyses of the European Union, the Catholic Church, and the United States government. With Allen Hicken, Daniele Caramani, and David Backer, he has produced CLEA, the most comprehensive electronic archive of constituency-level election results in the world. This year he will be completing a textbook on American government for W.W. Norton & Co. More information: http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/faculty/kkollman.html

Koopman, James
School of Public Health
Professor, Epidemiology

Research Interests: Analysis and control of infection transmission systems, theoretical basis for epidemiological analysis, causal modeling of epidemiological processes, complex systems, networks, public health surveillance. More information: http://www.sph.umich.edu/iscr/faculty/profile.cfm?uniqname=jkoopman

Low, Bobbi
School of Natural Resources & Environment (SNRE)
Professor of Resource Ecology

Research Interests: Her research centers on behavioral ecology and life history theory: how these were shaped by evolution, and how they in turn constrain optimal management. She links data collection, analysis, and theory; her methodologies include dynamic modeling, optimization, agent-based modeling and game theory. More information: http://www.snre.umich.edu/profile/bobbilow/bio

Lubensky, David
Physics
Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Systems biology, models of genetic and biochemical networks, biopolymers. Professor Lubensky does theoretical and computational research at the interface between physics and biology. One recent focus of his work has been the rapidly growing area of systems biology. Rather than focusing on the properties of individual biological molecules, as biophysicists have traditionally done, this field seeks to understand how networks of interacting genes or proteins can collectively accomplish a particular biological function. More information: http://biop.lsa.umich.edu/lubensky-david-.aspx

McClamroch, N. Harris
Aerospace Engineering and EECS
Professor

Research Interests: Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Spacecraft and Aircraft; Geometric mechanics, feedback control, optimization, and estimation. Professor McClamroch has taught courses and carried out research in a diverse set of topics, related to dynamics and control. His current research is on aircraft flight dynamics and control and spacecraft attitude dynamics and control, but he also has worked in robotics, manufacturing, wheeled vehicles, and civil structures. More information: http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/mcclamroch/

Mendez, David
School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy

Research Interests: Smoking control, product and service quality on demand, and policies regarding residential radon. Professor Mendez is the faculty lead for instructional technology in the School of Public Health, and recently he has worked on developing a model for distance education for the School's Executive Master's program. More information: http://www.sph.umich.edu/iscr/faculty/profile.cfm?uniqname=dmendez

Moore, Scott
School of Business Administration
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

Research Interests: His current research focus is on supply chain management. In this research he is running experiments in which automated agents evolve under the control of genetic programming in order to improve their performance in managing inventory in a supply chain. Previously, he developed a language for automating complex electronic communication. More information: http://www.bus.umich.edu/facultybios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000119768

Satterfield, Teresa
Romance Languages & Linguistics
Associate Professor, Spanish

Research Interests: Most recently I have been incorporating notions of Complex Adaptive Systems as computer simulations to study first language acquisition and language contact phenomena. Working closely with the U-M Center of Study of Complex Systems, I have implemented several agent-based models to reconstruct natural language acquisition scenarios, with an eye toward providing greater socio- and psycholinguistic explanations for situations where bilingualism and creole languages emerge. My interests in generative syntax center on questions of language variation, such as OPC Effects across Romance languages, and larger questions of language learnability, such as the theoretical viability of concepts such as 'monolingualism' and 'parameters' in syntactic variation. More information: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~tsatter/

Singh, Satinder
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Professor

Research Interests: My main research interest is in the old-fashioned goal of Artificial Intelligence (AI), that of building autonomous agents that can learn to be broadly competent in complex, dynamic, and uncertain environments. The field of reinforcement learning (RL) has focused on this goal and accordingly my deepest contributions are in RL. More information: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~baveja/

Vandermeer, John
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)
Asa Gray Distinguised University Professor

Research Interests: Ecology, theoretical ecology, tropical ecology, agroecology. Current projects:

1. Spatial pattern formation in the context of fixed versus variable resources.

2. Properties of a nonlinear stochastic Cellular Automata model of cluster size formation.

3. Ecological complexity leading to the ecosystem service of pest control in the coffee agroecosystem.

4. Modular, spatially distributed metacommunity systems of ants in southern Mexico.

5. Transient spatial pattern formation in forested ecosystems.

6. Landscape patterns of ecological complexity and ecosystem function in coffee agroecosystems in Mexico and Puerto Rico.

More information: http://www.sitemaker.umich.edu/jvander/home

Wellman, Michael
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Research Interests: For the past 18+ years, Michael Wellman’s research has focused on computational market mechanisms for distributed decision making and electronic commerce. He is faculty leader of the Strategic Reasoning Group (SRG) which develops techniques for understanding and engineering complex multiagent environments, using concepts and methods from economics as well as computer science. More information: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/wellman/

Wright, Henry
Anthropology
Professor

Research Interests: Madagascar, the Chesapeake Bay and in the Appalachians, learning to view the past in regional and ecological perspectives. With the help of archaeologists from Madagascar, France, Sweden and the U.S. and of many enthusiastic Malagasy students, Henry Wright conducts archaeological exploration and research all over Madagascar and the nearby Comoro Islands. More information: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/anthro/faculty_staff/wright.html

Zochowski, Michal
Physics
Associate Professor

Research Interests: Professor Zochowski’s laboratory group focuses on trying to understand mechanisms of the formation of spatiotemporal patterns in coupled dynamical systems, with special focus on their applicability and role during information processing in the brain. To achieve this, they connect theoretical as well as experimental approaches. Theoretical studies focus on synchronization and dynamical control in simple nonlinear systems (e.g. coupled Rossler, Lorenz oscillators, map systems), as well as in more complex, biologically feasible, computational models. They are especially interested in coupled systems with self-adaptive units that could model neuromodulatory processes in the neural systems. From the experimental side, they employ optical imaging systems (CCD camera and/or photodiode array) to monitor activity of large neuronal populations. Dependent on the experimental design, they can monitor spatially averaged population response of many cells or spiking activity of many separate neurons. Those techniques are applied to: 1) monitor changing patterns of spike interactions between cultured neurons, and 2) monitor odor evoked oscillations in (in vivo) olfactory bulb. More information: http://research.physics.lsa.umich.edu/zochowski/