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Martin J. Fischer
Center Co-Director
mfischer@noblis.org
Martin J. Fischer is a senior fellow at Noblis. He has forty years of experience in the field of network design and performance analysis of telecommunications systems. This experience includes twenty five years with the Defense Information Systems Agency and fifteen years with Noblis. Until recently he was an adjunct professor at George Mason University and is a team member with faculty at George Mason University that has received two National Science Grants and one from the Department of Energy. Over his career he has published or presented over 200 papers, approximately 50 of which have appeared in refereed journals. He received a doctorate in Operations Research from Southern Methodist University. |
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Karla Hoffman
Center Co-Director
khoffman@gmu.edu
Karla Hoffman is a Professor in the Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department of the School of Information Technology and Engineering of George Mason University. Dr. Hoffman’s primary area of research is combinatorial optimization. She consults to the FCC on auction design and testing for package-bidding auctions and is responsible for the design of a real-time scheduling algorithm for the concrete industry. She has developed scheduling algorithms for the airline industry, consults to the military on a variety of routing and scheduling problems and has advised the telecommunications industry on capital budgeting. Her research focuses on the development of new algorithms for solving large modeling problems arising in industry. Resume: http://iris.gmu.edu/~khoffman/ |
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Andrew M. Girard
agirard@noblis.org
Andrew M. Girard is a fellow at Noblis where his experience includes network design and optimization problems within telecommunications. His research interests include optimization problems in telecommunications and finance, applications of geometry and mechanics to biological and mechanical systems as well as control theory. He received a doctorate in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland |
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David A. Garbin
david.garbin@noblis.org
David A. Garbin is a senior fellow at Noblis where his interests include telecommunications technology, networking, network design and optimization, economic analysis, voice communications, and data communications. He received an MSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Denise M. Bevilacqua Masi
dmasi@noblis.org
Denise M. Bevilacqua Masi is a fellow engineer at Noblis. Her research interests include queueing theory and simulation applied to telecommunications networks. She received a doctorate in information technology and engineering from George Mason University. |
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John F. Shortle
jshortle@gmu.edu
John F. Shortle, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Systems Engineering at George Mason University. His experience includes developing stochastic, queueing, and simulation models to optimize networks and operations. His research interests include simulation and queueing applications in telecommunications and air transportation. He received his doctorate degree in operations research from UC Berkeley
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James R. Soltys
jsoltys@noblis.org
James R. Soltys is a senior manager at Noblis where his experience includes pattern classification, neural network design, and telecommunications systems design. His research interests include genetic algorithms, neural networks, and mathematical programming as applied to pattern classification and telecommunications network design. He received his doctorate degree in systems engineering from the University of Virginia. |
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Karl E. Wunderlich
kwunderl@noblis.org
Karl E. Wunderlich is a fellow at Noblis where his experience includes simulation analysis, dynamic programming/shortest path techniques, and operations research. He received a doctorate in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan. |
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Chun-Hung Chen
Chun-Hung Chen received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University and is currently a Professor of Systems Engineering & Operations Research at George Mason University. Dr. Chen has lead research projects in stochastic simulation and optimization, systems design under uncertainty, and air traffic management, which are sponsored by NSF, FAA, and NASA. Dr. Chen received the Kayamori Best Automation Paper Award from the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1994 Eliahu I. Jury Award from Harvard University, and the 1992 MasPar Parallel Computer Challenge Award. He is serving on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IIE Transactions, Journal of Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, and International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling.
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