Scholars
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The scholars below constitute a representative sample of the ongoing work relevant to strategy and security at Penn. They are listed below in alphabetical order and by issue area.
Scholars in Strategy and Security
Areas of Interest
Bioterrorism
| Scholar Name |
Research Description |
| P.J. Brennan |
Tuberculosis; hospital-acquired infections; immunocompromised patients; hospital epidemiology |
| Fevzi Daldal |
Bacterial growth and physiology -- specifically energy production systems and cytochromes |
| Robert Doms |
Microbiology; cell biological, biochemical, genetic, and immunological techniques to study emerging infectious diseases |
| Neil Fishman |
Emergence of antimicrobial resistance -- epidemiology of and methods to prevent resistance; healthcare epidemiology; infection prevention and infection control; bioterrorism preparedness |
| Stuart Isaacs |
Infectious diseases; HIV/AIDS |
| Josh Metlay |
Antimicrobial drug resistance; respiratory tract infections; geographic analysis of infectious diseases |
| Mark Pauly |
Medical economics; health policy; health insurance; other insurance; public finance/public choice; regulation |
| Ed Pearce |
Molecular basis of parasite-host interactions; how the immune system makes decisions during infection about how to respond appropriately |
| Harvey Rubin |
Infectious diseases and tuberculosis research; strategic threats |
| Suzanne Shepherd |
Bioterrorism preparedness; health screening for returning travelers |
| Brian Strom |
Safety and efficacy of medical products -- especially the anthrax and smallpox vaccines |
| David Weiner |
Pathogenesis of and immune based approaches to HIV-1. |
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Cybersecurity & Computer Science
| Scholar Name |
Research Description |
| Joel Adler |
Software solutions to logistics and manufacturing optimization problems; decision support systems; Information Technology resources |
| Norman Badler |
Computer understanding of 3-D moving object motions from movie images; graphical representation of complex objects using solid and surface models; Speciality in human figure modeling and animation |
| Matt Blaze |
Architecture and design of secure systems based on cryptographic techniques, analysis of secure systems against practical attack models, and finding new cryptographic primitives and techniques. |
| Dave Farber |
Internet policy; communications technology; computer and information science |
| Michael Kearns |
Artificial intelligence and machine learning -- computational learning theory, reinforcement learning, probabilistic inference and graphical models, and computational game theory |
| Vijay Kumar |
Robotics; mechanism design and control; manufacturing; biomechanics |
| Andre Scedrov |
Information assurance; Computer security; Cryptographic protocols; Logic |
| Barry Silverman |
Computerized simulations of terrorist operations (homeland defense, urban warfare, civil unrest); modeling of emotions, physiology, culture and motivations of leaders, followers, and crowds; bideogames and wargames for analysis and training; artificial life, artificial intelligence |
| Jonathan Smith |
Adaptive protocol architectures; secure high-performance programmable network architectures; scalable security architectures for the Internet; diffuse computing; building secure open source operating systems. |
| Steven Zdancewic |
Programming languages and computer security; language-based enforcement of information-flow policies; secure concurrent and distributed computing; functional programming languages; type theory; linear logic. |
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Emergency Care
| Scholar Name |
Research Description |
| David Asch |
Moral and cognitive determinants of the decisions made by clinicians and patients |
| William Baxt |
Artificial neural networks in clinical decision making; tactical EMS |
| Amy Behrman |
Occupational infections of health care workers, animal workers, laboratory workers |
| Charles Branas |
Epidemiology and emergency care |
| John Holmes |
Evolutionary computation and machine learning approaches to knowledge discovery in databases (data mining); information systems infrastructures for epidemiologic surveillance; clinical decision support systems; semantic analysis; information systems user (physician and patient) behavior |
| C. Crawford Mechem |
Emergency medical services; out-of-hospital disaster planning; planning for weapons of mass effect |
| Jennifer Pinto-Martin |
Prevalence and etiology of autistic spectrum disorders; epidemiology; long term consequences of neonatal insult |
| Therese Richmond |
Recovery and responses following traumatic Injury. |
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Psychology & Sociology
| Scholar Name |
Research Description |
| Edna Foa |
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Psychological responses to terrorism. |
| Ruben Gur |
Human neuropsychology; emotion and cognitive processes; sex differences in health and disease from a neurodevelopmental perspective |
| Larry Starr |
Psychological responses of EMS responders and non medical bystanders to medical emergencies/disasters; designing medical disaster plans and training protocols for occupational settings; use of emergency equipment by non medical responders to sudden emergencies. |
| Stephen Steinberg |
Philosophy of Nationalism; Public Discourse and Civil Society; Philosophy of Dialogue and Ethnopolitical Conflict; Higher Education;Contemporary European Philosophy |
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Chemical & Nuclear Weapons
| Scholar Name |
Research Description |
| Marc Dichter |
Neurotoxins, neuroprotection, neural injuries |
| Fred Henretig |
Toxicology; radiation threats |
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Risk Management, Modeling, GIS
| Scholar Name |
Research Description |
| Dennis Culhane |
The role of toxic occupational and environmental exposures in causing disease; relationship between health and productivity |
| Paul Kleindorfer |
Pricing and capacity policies for capital-intensive industries; governmental regulation; energy and environmental policy and strategy |
| Howard Kunreuther |
Decision making for low probability high consequence events -- developing programs for improving choice as well as social welfare. |
| Stephen Sammut |
Global biosecurity; biotechnology venture funding; use of private equity in developing dountries; technology transfer |
| Susan Wachter |
Homelessness, housing policy, policy analysis and research methods; impact of homelessness on the utilization of health, corrections and social services in New York City and Philadelphia |
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Environmental Threats
| Scholar Name |
Research Description |
| Edward Emmett |
Role of toxic occupational and environmental exposures in causing disease |
| Bob Giegengack |
Environmental geology; water resources; climate change; urban environmental toxicology |
| Tom Naff |
Hydrologic, public health issues in the Middle East; Middle Eastern studies |
| Fred Scatena |
Natural and anthropogenic disturbances; instream flow and potable water supplies; tropical forest ecology and hydrology; tropical montane cloud forests, roads, and streams |
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History & Political Science
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Scholar Name
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Research Description
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| David Eisenhower |
Public service; public policy |
| Michael Horowitz |
International conflict and security. |
| Mark Hughes |
Metropolitan labor markets; settlement patterns |
| Ian Lustick |
Middle East politics; Agent based modeling approaches to ethnopolitical conflict, bioterrorism, and intelligence assessments; PS-I computer simulation platform |
| Arthur Waldron |
China and East Asia; world military and diplomatic history. |
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Math & Applied Sciences
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Scholar Name
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Research Description
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| Randall Kamien |
Self-assembly; self-organized systems; collective behavior; drug delivery; passive sensors |
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Veterinary Threats
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Scholar Name
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Research Description
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| Gary Smith |
The use of mathematical modeling techniques to facilitate the control of infectious and parasitic disease; parasite population biology; the epidemiology of parasitic diseases (including those caused by viruses and bacteria); mathematical modeling of parasitic diseases of veterinary and medical importance; economic evaluation of chemotherapeutic and vaccination strategies |
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