Scholars
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
Scholar
Name |
Research
Description |
| David Eisenhower |
Public service; public policy |
| 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
Scholar
Name |
Research
Description |
| Randall Kamien
|
Self-assembly; self-organized systems;
collective behavior; drug delivery; passive sensors |
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Veterinary Threats
Scholar Name |
Research Description
|
| 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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