Faculty and Staff
Professor & Chair, Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Research Interests: Production and Lean systems, statistical process improvement,
supply chain optimization, simulation of large complex systems
Office: ENGR 485D
Phone: (408) 924-4133
Email: yasser.dessouky@sjsu.edu
Professor, MS Engineering Management Coordinator
Research Interests: Applied Statistics, Applied Operations Research, Supply Chain
Engineering, Data Analytics
Phone: (408) 924-4152
Email: minnie.patel@sjsu.edu
Associate Professor, ISE Graduate Program Coordinator
Research Interests: Data analytics, statistical, simulation and optimization modeling
and applications on problems related to service (healthcare) and production systems
Office: ENGR 485F
Email: ayca.erdogan@sjsu.edu
Professor, Director of HFE Graduate Program
Research Interests: Product design and development (medical products and healthcare),
ergonomics, human factors, work measurement and analysis, lean manufacturing, production/operations
management, and safety
Office: ENGR 485I
Email: anil.kumar@sjsu.edu
Associate Professor
Research Lab: Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration (HRIC) Lab
Research interests: Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration; Simulation; Data Mining;
Automation and Industrial Internet of Things; Human-Machine Interface; Operations
Research; Optimization; Supply Chain Planning; Statistical Quality Control and Healthcare;
Decision Making Algorithms; Advanced Manufacturing Systems; Lean Manufacturing and
Lean Enterprises; Product Design and Development; Engineering Management; Virtual
Reality (VR); Augmented Reality (AR); Deep Learning; Machine Learning; Artificial
Intelligence (AI)
Office: ENGR 485J
Phone: (408) 924-3204
Email: behin.elahi@sjsu.edu
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Human-AI interaction; Intelligent mobility; Embodied intelligence;
Human-machine interface; Smart assistive technology; Human behavior modeling
Office: ENGR 485E
Phone: (408) 924-4010
Email: gaojian.huang@sjsu.edu
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Optimization and statistical modeling, algorithms, data analytics
and their applications in supply chain and energy industry
Office: ENGR 485H
Phone: (408) 924-3989
Email: hongrui.liu@sjsu.edu
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: AI for Smart Manufacturing and Healthcare, Domain-Informed Machine
Learning for High-Dimensional Data, Geometric Data Analysis, Quality Engineering and
Applied Mathematics/Statistics
Office: ENGR 485B
Phone: (408) 924-4430
Email: weizhi.lin@sjsu.edu
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Human Factors and Ergonomics, Injury Prevention, Aging Health,
Human-Robot Collaboration, Human-Machine Interaction, Wearable Technology, Virtual
Reality (VR), Augmented reality (AR), Biomechanics, Motion Analysis, Data Analytics
Office: ENGR 485G
Phone: (408) 924-4105
Email: yue.luo@sjsu.edu
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-Centered AI, Accessibility,
User Experience (UX), Computer-Supported Collaborative Work
Office: ENGR 485A
Phone: (408) 924-4441
Email: jingyi.xie@sjsu.edu
Adjunct Professor, Principal, Interface Analysis Associates
Phone: (408) 848-6014
Email: anthony.andre@sjsu.edu
Adjunct Professor; Vice President of Operational Excellence, ServiceNow
Email: patrick.k.tam@sjsu.edu
Emeritus Professor
Research Interests: Design of Statistical Experiment; Statistical Quality Control
and Reliability Theory; Operations Research; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Efficient
Operations of Large Vehicles - Trucks and Buses
Phone: (408) 924-4088
Email: jacob.tsao@sjsu.edu
Emeritus Professor
Research Interests: Human factors engineering, work measurement, process (quality)
control, system simulation, and engineering economics
Phone: (408) 924-3890
Email: louis.freund@sjsu.edu
