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Margaret A Mcdermott


Information Technology and Web Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States of America

Biography

Professor McDermott brings to the classroom significant industry experience in technical/business fields, having held positions in Marketing with Fairchild Space Company, as well as several years in product development at Alcatel Network Systems. Professor McDermott's research explores the measurement of organizational competencies, as well as the strategic implications of decision making in hospitals, examining firm competencies, hospital focus, and their relationship with organizational performance.

Research Interest

Strategic Management

Publications

  • An added-mass partition algorithm for fluid-structure interactions of compressible fluids and nonlinear solids, Journal of Computational Physics, 305 (2016), 1037-1064 (with J.W. Banks, W.D. Henshaw, and D.W. Schwendeman).

  • "The Impact of Value Chain Activities on Performance” (with D. Prajogo and M. Goh). International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 28 No.7, 2008. Sandra Nierzwicki-Bauer Associate Director Information Technology and Web Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute usa nierzs@rpi.edu professor Dr. Sandra Nierzwicki-Bauer did B.A. University of New Hampshire, 1979 Microbiology Ph.D. University of New Hampshire, 1983 Microbiology Title: “Novel Aspects of Ultrastructure in Two Species of Cyanobacteria” Postdoctoral Training: University of Chicago, 1984-1985 Molecular Genetics environmental remote sensing, invasive species, water resource management science Porter-Goff, E.R., C.W. Boylen and S.A. Nierzwicki-Bauer. 2010. Periphyton dynamics along a stream with a gradient of human impact. J. Freshwat. Ecol. 25:385-394. Wimbush, J., M.E. Frischer, J.W. Zarzynski and S.A. Nierzwicki-Bauer. 2009. Eradication of colonizing populations of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) by early detection and SCUBA removal: Lake George, NY. Aquat. Conserv.: Mar. Fresh. Ecosyst. 19:703-713. T. Ravichandran Distinguished Chair Information Technology and Web Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute usa ravit@rpi.edu  5182762035 professor Professor Ravichandran is an associated faculty member in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department in the School of Engineering and a faculty for the IT program in the School of Science. He teaches course in the graduate and doctoral programs at Rensselaer. He periodically teaches some of these courses in top business schools in Asia and Europe and brings a global perspective to his teaching. Information Technology Management, Supply Chain Management, Business Strategy science Jeffrey Banks Chair Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute usa banksj3@rpi.edu 518- 276-6412 professor Dr. Banks received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2006. Subsequently he completed postdoctoral appointments at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. In 2010 he was appointed as a staff scientist at LLNL where he remained until moving back to RPI. In January 2015 he was appointed associate professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences where he holds the Eliza Ricketts Foundation Career Development Chair. Numerical methods for partial differential equations, Fluid-structure interaction, Computational fluid dynamics and solid mechanics science Vlasov simulations of electron-ion collision effects on damping of electron plasma waves, J. W. Banks, S. Brunner, R. L. Berger, and T. M. Tran, Phys. Plasmas, Volume 23, Pages 032108, 2016 On Galerkin difference methods, J. W. Banks and T. Hagstrom, J. Comput. Phys., Volume 313, Pages 310–327, 2016 Kristin Bennett Associate Director Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute usa bennek@rpi.edu 518- 276-6899 professor Kristin P. Bennett is the Associate Director of the Institute for Data Exploration and Application and a Professor in the Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science Departments and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research focuses on extracting information from data using novel predictive or descriptive mathematical models and data visualizations, and the applications of these methods to support decision making and to accelerate discovery in science, engineering, public health and business. She has 25 years of experience and over 100 publications in these areas. Machine Learning, Data Mining, Data Science, Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics, Combining operations research and artificial.. science R. Zhao, Md Ridwan Al Iqbal, K. Bennett and Q. Ji, “Wind Turbine Fault Prediction Using Soft Label SVM,” International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2016. J. Ryan, J. Hendler, and K. Bennett, “Understanding Emergency Department 72-hour Revisits Among Medicaid Patients Using Electronic Health Care Records”, Journal of Big Data, 3:4:238-248, 2015. Mohamed Boudjelkha Lecturer Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute usa boudjm@rpi.edu 518-276-2725 professor Mohamed Boudjelkha completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Differential Equations from Applied point of view, Asymptotics, Special Functions and their Applications to various branches of Science science M. T. Boudjelkha and M. Aslam Chaudhry, On the Approximation of the Generalized Incomplete Gamma Function Arising in Heat Conduction Problems. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications ( 2000) William Henshaw Distinguished Professor Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute usa henshw@rpi.edu  518-276-2994 professor Dr. Henshaw is the Margaret A. Darrin Distinguished Professor in Applied Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  He earned his B.Math. from the University of Waterloo and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Professor Heinz-Otto Kreiss.  Dr. Henshaw has worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Numerical methods for PDEs, adaptive and overlapping grids, incompressible and compressible flows, fluid-structure interactions, solid science Jeffrey W. Banks, William D. Henshaw, Donald W. Schwendeman and Qi Tang. A stable partitioned FSI algorithm for rigid bodies and incompressible flow. Part I: Model problem analysis. J. Comput. Phys., 2017 Longfei Li, William D. Henshaw, Jeffrey W. Banks, Donald W. Schwendeman and Geoffrey A. Main. A stable partitioned FSI algorithm for incompressible flow and deforming beams. J. Comput. Phys., 312:272-306, 2016 Isom Herron Professor Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute usa herroi@rpi.edu  518-276-2649 professor Dr. Isom Herron completed his Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1973 The theory of the stability of fluid flows., Common applications are to phenomena in the atmosphere, the oceans science “Exchange of stabilities in Couette flow between cylinders with Navier-slip conditions” Quarterly of Applied Mathematics Vol. LXX, Number 4, Dec. 2012, pp. 743–758 (with Pablo Suárez). “Solving singular boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations” Caribb. J. Math. Comput. Sci.15, 2013, pp. 1–30. Mark H Holmes Professor Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute usa holmes@rpi.edu 518-276-6891 professor Fung Young Investigator Award (ASME) 2000 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware 2001 ASME Curriculum Innovation Award 2002 Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology 2002 Best Paper Award, 13th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning 2007 ICTCM Award for Excellence and Innovation with the Use of Technology in Collegiate Mathematics 2007 Rensselaer Trustee's Outstanding Teacher Award Development and analysis of mathematical models for physiological systems, including modeling the biological tissues found in joints science A Model for the Nonlinear Mechanism Responsible for Cochlear Amplification, Math Biosci Eng. 2014 Dec;11(6):1357-73 (with K. Fessel) Connections Between Cubic Splines and Quadrature Rules, American Mathematical Monthly, Vol 121, Num 8, Oct 2014, pp. 723-726 David Isaacson Professor Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute usa isaacd@rpi.edu 518-276-6900 professor Professor Isaacson works in two areas: mathematical physics and medical imaging. His work in mathematical physics has centered on the development of methods for approximating energy levels, particle masses, and critical exponents in quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and statistical mechanics. His work in medical imaging has centered on the development of algorithms and devices for measuring and displaying the electrical state of the interior of a body from measurements made on the body's exterior. The long term goal of this research is to improve the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease and cancer. Mathematics applied to medical problems., Medical imaging, Electrical Impedance Tomography. Monitoring heart and lung functions science Adaptive techniques in electrical impedance tomography reconstruction, Taoran Li, David Isaacson, Jonathan C Newell, Gary J Saulnier, Physiological measurement, vol. 35, issue 6, p.1111, 2014. A finite difference solver for the D-Bar Equation, P. Muller, D. Isaacson, J. Newell, G. Saulnier, Proc. 15th Int. Conf. on Biomedical applications of EIT, p. 26, 2014. Ashwani Kapila Professor Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute usa kapila@rpi.edu 518-276-6894 professor Recent work has focused on the development and analysis, both theoretical and computational, of models that would accurately predict the generation and propagation of detonation waves in high-energy solid explosives.  The research is carried out in collaboration with colleagues at Rensselaer and at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories.  Applied Mathematics: Reactive and multiphase flow, nonlinear waves, perturbation methods, scientific computing science Sensitivity of run-to-detonation distance in practical explosives,"" Combustion Theory & Modeling, 20 (2016), 1088-1117 (with J. R. Gambino and D. W. Schwendeman)."

  • Strategic Implications of Payer's Influence on Hospital Performance (with G. Stock and C. McDermott). Decision Sciences National Conference, San Diego 2010.

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