Industrial and Systems Engineering

  • Coit, David W.

    • Title: Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
    • Email: coit@soe.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-2033
    • Detailed Profile: http://www.davidcoit.net
    • Research Areas: Electric power grid modeling and optimization; Electricity transmission and distribution reliability and maintainability.
    • Energy Research Focus: Developed optimization models to improve the electric generation expansion planning to consider greenhouse gas emissions and the uncertainty associated with climate change. Developed reliability importance metrics and optimal transformer replacement policies for electricity transmission and distribution systems.

  • Ezzat, Ahmed Aziz

    • Title: Assistant Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Industrial and Systems Engineering
    • Email: aziz.ezzat@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-3625
    • Detailed Profile: https://ise.rutgers.edu/ahmed-aziz-ezzat
    • Research Areas: Research Areas: Engineering-driven Data Science, Renewable Energy Analytics, Statistical and Machine Learning, Forecasting and Uncertainty Quantification, Physics-informed Statistical Learning, with Applications in Energy, Manufacturing and Materials.
    • Energy Research Focus: Developing data science solutions and models for heterogeneous, multi-resolution, and spatio-temporal data streams, to better understand, forecast, and operate renewable energy systems.

  • Rodgers, Mark

    • Title: Assistant Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Rutgers Business School – Department of Supply Chain Management
    • Email: mrodgers@business.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 973-353-1287 (office) | 732-570-1653 (cell)
    • Detailed Profile: https://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty/mark-rodgers
    • Research Areas: Energy Policy and Economics, Energy Resource Management, Risk and portfolio Analysis, Power systems planning, Generation expansion planning, Human health externalities, Intermittency of renewables, Power grid disruption and resilience
    • Energy Research Focus: Applying operations research models to determine the best investment strategy to expand the electric power grid that minimizes total societal costs including market cost and health damages. I also apply similar models to study how to expand capacity to mitigate disruption and intermittency of renewable sources.