Affiliated Centers and Collaborators

Centers and Collaborators

The Ohio State University brings a significant track record and diverse and complementary strengths to industry projects.  This includes a collaboration track record in research, practice and education with local and national organizations such as City of Columbus, DARPA, Dispatch, IBM, Medicaid, Microsoft, Motorola, NCR, Ohio Health, The OSU University Hospitals, the FAA, the EPA and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs, such as Norse Dairy Systems, Finecast, LaserFlex, and Anchor Fabricators).  An introcduction to some of these strengths follows:

• College of Engineering, CETI co-directors within the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) have significant academic and industry experience.  The experience includes production enterprise integration successes and licensing of developed workflow technology to organizations like IBM, EDS, PTC, etc.  Instruction:  This includes an industry-sponsored project course at the undergraduate and graduate levels.  An inter-disciplinary graduate-level minor is planned.  The team is working with Industrial Systems Engineering (ISE) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) to enhance an existing Applied Software Engineering Minor.  Funding history:  In the decade prior to 2005, over $9M dollars in workflow and enterprise integration technology transition funding was obtained from DARPA, IBM, NSF, NIST, Air Force SBIR, and other early adopters in industry.  Industry commitments at $150,000.   

  The development of analytic tools for Lean (such as PFAST [Irani 00]) and a visualization framework by ISE faculty in collaboration with CSE faculty.  The tools are for the evaluation, simplification, and analysis of the material flow networks in a facility.  This extends classical flow analysis to material or information flows at any level of resolution in a facility or office to achieve Lean.  Instruction: Five ISE courses relate to design and project work, with emphasis on enhancing theory to meet real world challenges.  Funding: $180,000 from Forging Defense Manuf. Consortium and Defense Logistics Agency.

  Successful technology application-driven R&D projects such as 1) the DARPA-funded Extreme Scaling ExScal Project in CSE and the Institute for Sensor Research [Arora 05].  The prototype demonstration is one of the largest wireless sensor network assembled to date.  ExScal's demonstration is also the largest ad hoc 802.11 network thus far created.  2) OR-Eye - This Microsoft-funded initiative in ECE, allows authorized users at The Ohio State University Medical Center to securely and remotely monitor, record, and replay vital signs data. It was built using Web services modified by Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 for Microsoft .NET, part of the Microsoft .NET Framework; and 3) an Independent Validation and Verification of the enterprise architecture and design of the 311 system currently under deployment at the City of Columbus.  Funding: $1.5M DARPA, $400,000 Microsoft, $100,600, City of Columbus.
  

• Center for Resilience: An interdisciplinary research center with the objective of improving the resilience of global industrial systems and the environments in which they operate.  The Center is developing tools for measuring and improving the resilience of products and processes, thus contributing to the ecological and social sustainability of the global economy.  Collaboration with CETI is underway to develop resilient enterprise architectures.  Instruction: The Center is developing a campus-wide minor in sustainability, including new curricular material and enhancement of existing courses. It also hosts a bi-annual Resilience Symposium to support exchange among industry, government, academia, and non-profit organizations. Funding:  Approximately $2.5 million in research grants from the NSF and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and approximately $50,000 to date in industrial contributions.

•  Program for International and Homeland Security:  This promotes research, study and technology development within, between and among the university’s colleges, departments and centers.  In addition, it helps align the university capabilities and resources with the requirements of people and organizations responsible for America’s national security.  It also helps transition the scientific research and technology into practical, affordable solutions and capabilities.

• School of Public Policy and Management:  A close relationship with the National Regulatory Research Institute has facilitated a research focus on information and technology. Telecommunications policy, in particular, represents a rich area for policy research.  Policy issues include concerns about privacy, barriers to entry, and accessibility of services.  The faculty also has a track record of collaboration on projects with the CSE in areas such as Strategic Planning for the City of Columbus IT, and submission of a joint proposal to the NSF Digital government program.

• College of Human Ecology:  The Department of Consumer Sciences has a strong faculty team with extensive research, teaching and industry experience in the areas of: services management, impact and co-relationship of IT and services, service innovation management, quality management, blueprinting service delivery, service focused enterprise integration, business plans, consumer behavior, service industry retailing, and service industry financial planning. Instruction: The Department also offers both undergraduate and graduate level courses focused on services management.

• College of Law on-line deliberation systems group, College of Arts and Sciences in Industrial Design in product design, and theDigital Union in the use of technology for learning and research.

• Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) at OSU offers courseware certified under the IA Courseware Evaluation (IACE) Program as meeting National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Standards and the certification is current.
• TWICE Program: Bettina Bair, analyst and director of the TWICE (The Women in Computer Engineering) program.

• IUCRCERCS-CETI affiliated researchers include:

  • Anish Arora, Professor, CSE.  Dr. Arora leads the Distributed, Dependable Networked Systems research group working on the foundations, implementation methods, and prototypes of dependable systems for new application areas.
  • Stephen Boyles (Animal Sciences) College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Science.
  • Philip Brown, Associate Professor, Dept. of History.  His interest stems from the application of Geographical Information Systems to natural disasters, land distribution policies and so on.
  • Donna Byron, Assistant Professor, CSE. Dr. Byron co-directs the Speech and Language Technologies lab at OSU. The goal of the CSE SLaTe Lab is to build software that allows humans and machines to interact using natural language. 
  • Anand Desai, Associate Professor, School of Public Service and Public Policy. Professor Desai's research interests include measurement of performance and evaluation of the provision of public services.
  • Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Assistant Professor, CSE.  His interests include Database Systems and Applications, High Performance Data Management, Multimedia, spatial and biomedical databases, etc.   
  • Joseph Fiksel, Senior Research Scientist, ISE, Dr. Joseph Fiksel is Co-Director of the Center for Resilience, that is developing a unifying approach for modeling risk, resilience, and sustainability in complex systems.
  • Shahrukh Irani, Associate Professor, ISE. Dr. Irani leads the Advanced Manufacturing Interest Group. His interests include the extension of factory design, material flow analysis and IT architectures for business process management.
  • Jay Kadampully, Associate Professor College of Human Ecology. Dr. Kadampully’s interests include service quality management in the hospitality industry.
  • James Kaufman, Professor of Industrial Design, Department of Industrial, Interior and Visual Communication Design. His research interests include Industrial and Product Design and he has practiced professionally.   
  • Jeff McCutcheon, OSU Agriculture Extension Program.
  • Furrukh Khan, Associate Professor, ECE, and Microsoft research partner. Dr. Khan’s interests include component-based software development and enterprise-scale secure and scalable Web-service and WSE-based systems.
  • David Landsbergen, Associate Professor, John Glenn Institute of Public Policy and Public Management. Dr. Landsbergen conducts research, and consults on the legal, policy and managerial issues surrounding IT.
  • Carol Newcomb, Lisa Antolino (Dept. of Executive Education), Richard Dietrich (Accounting and Management Information Science) College of Business.
  • Susan Metros (Digital Union) OSU CIO’s office.
  • Nasco Rountev, Assistant Professor, CSE. Dr. Rountev leads the Program Analyses and Software Tools (PRESTO) Research Group. His research focii are various static and dynamic program analyses and their use.
  • Todd Stewart - Major General, United States Air Force (Retired), Director, International and Homeland Security. Dr. Stewart is responsible for promoting research and study into the homeland security challenges facing Ohio and the nation.
  • Peter Shane, Joseph S. Platt/Porter Wright Morris & Arthur Professor of Law, Moritz School of Law. Dr Shane is also Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies. His interests include electronic democracy and law.
  • Nancy Parker (Arthur James Cancer Institute) OSU Medical Center.
  • Bruce Weide, Professor, CSE. Dr. Weide leads the Reusable Software Research Group that explores all aspects of component-based software engineering and related sub-areas.