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Dr. Bradley has Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Rice University and a B.A. in Biochemistry from Beloit College. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Electrical Engineering Department at Rice University, and a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA JSC in the Materials and Processes Branch. He has previously been the Manager of the University of Houston Nanofabrication Facility and a High School Physics Teacher at South Houston High School. He has worked for several startup companies and cofounded NoPo Nanotechnologies in Bangalore India and NeuroRex in Houston Texas. He is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lamar University where he teaches online and face-to-face courses including senior design, technology entrepreneurship, and other graduate and undergraduate courses.

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Dr. James Curry is an Associate Professor in the Lamar Industrial Engineering department.

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Dr. Zaloom is currently Interim Chair and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lamar University . He has previously served as Interim Dean of the College of Graduate Studies, Interim Dean of the College of Engineering, and Associate Dean of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, He completed a BSIE and Masters degree at the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Houston.

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Brian Craig, PhD, PE, CPE, is Dean of the College of Engineering, the Director of the Mariner Safety Research Initiative and leading the startup of the Center for Midstream Management and Science at Lamar University. Dr. Craig’s expertise lies in the fields of human factors, ergonomics and safety (HFES). In collaboration with national researchers, practitioners and industry partners, he has (co)developed models, publications, training materials and procedures, etc. that enhance maritime and offshore design, usability and safety performance. Dr. Craig holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering (specializing in human factors, ergonomics and safety), a MS in Industrial Engineering, a BS in Industrial Engineering, and a BS in Bioengineering all from Texas A&M University, College Station. He has (co)authored/presented over 50 scientific journals, refereed conference proceedings, and worldwide industry guidance documents on maritime safety culture, near-miss, incident and safety performance, practice, and design and is frequent speaker at shipping and offshore industry meetings. He has been PI on over 25 industry and government supported HFES research projects totaling over $1.6M over ($2.4 M including co-PI), mostly in the maritime industry.

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Dr. Berna Eren Tokgoz is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont, TX. She received her BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and her Ph.D. in Engineering Management from Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk, VA in 2012. She was a Graduate Research Assistant during her MS and Ph.D. studies. She was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at ODU between 2013 and 2014. Her research interests include resilience, resilience quantification, risk, vulnerability, system of systems engineering, critical infrastructures, and port management.

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Alberto Marquez is an associate professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at Lamar University. His previous academic appointment was Department Chair of Industrial Engineering at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico City.

His research interests include modeling for decision making and optimization, with applications to supply chain, heuristic algorithm development, effective modeling and training for decision making. His publications encompass the developing of decision support systems for supply chain design; manufacturing, transportation and warehousing optimization, manufacturing capacity modeling and forecasting, simulation, scheduling, inventory policy, and process design and optimization.

He got his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University in 1999 with a Fulbright-Conacyt scholarship.

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Yueqing Li is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lamar University. His research focuses on human factors & ergonomics, human-computer interaction, and driving safety.

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Weihang Zhu is an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology, University of Houston, USA since 2018. Previously he was a Professor of Industrial Engineering, Lamar University, from 2005 to 2018. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University (2003), USA and his M.S. (2000) and B.S. (1997) in Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Zhejiang University, China. His research interests include Engineering Education, Computer haptics, CAD/CAM, high performance computing, meta-heuristics, multi-axis NC surface machining.

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Dr. Xinyu Liu is a professor in Industrial & System Engineering Department at Lamar University, Beaumont, TX. Prior to joining Lamar in Fall 2007, Dr. Liu worked as a research engineer in Microlution Inc., a startup company dedicated in micromanufacturing: machine design and process optimization. He received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. He got both his MS and BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1999 and 1997, respectively.

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