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Anup P. Bandivadekar
Jason E. Bartolomei
Jason W. Black
Matthew Bunn
Serena Chan
Chia-Chin Cheng
Heidi L. Davidz
Mark de Figueiredo
Rebecca S. Dodder
Troy D. Downen
Terence Ping-Ching Fan
Erica Fuchs
Ralph Hall
Mo-Han Hsieh

Kenneth Guang-Lih Huang
Konstantinos Kalligeros
Andjelka Kelic
Michael Kometer
Benjamin Koo
Katherine C. Martin
Carlos A. Martínez-Vela
Joshua McConnell
Nicholas A. McKenna
David S. Miller
Ali Mostashari
Christopher Musso
Christine Ng
Carlos A. Osorio-Urzúa

Adam Ross
Marcus C. Sarofim
Sgouris Sgouridis
Rudolf Smaling
Thomas H. Speller, Jr.
Alexis K. Stanke
Eun Suk Suh
Victor Tang
Özlem Uzuner
Samudra Vijay
Hungjen Wang
Tao Wang
Hongwei "Harry" Zhu


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Anup P. Bandivadekar

Academic Background:

  • February 2008 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Technology, Policy & Management
  • June 2004 • MIT, ESD: S.M. in Technology & Policy (TPP)
  • December 2001 • Michigan Technological University: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
  • November 1998 • University of Mumbai: B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering

Abbreviated CV:

  • University of Cambridge, Judge Institute of Management Studies
    • Visiting Research Scholar
  • Michigan Technological University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    • Research Associate
  • Uhde India Ltd. • Mumbai, India
    • Trainee Engineer, Mechanical
  • Telco Ltd. (now TATA Motors) • Pune, India
    • Graduate Trainee Engineer

Dissertation Title:
Evaluating the Impact of Advanced Vehicle and Fuel Technologies in U.S. Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet

Updated March 2008

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Anup P. Bandivadekar
Anup P. Bandivadekar

email: anupb "at" mit.edu
phone: 617.452.4771

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Jason E. Bartolomei

Academic Background:

  • 2007 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Technology, Management & Policy
  • 2001 • Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), OH: M.S. in Systems Engineering
  • 1997 • Marquette University, WI: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Abbreviated CV:

  • June 2001 – August 2004 • United States Air Force Academy • CO
    • Director of Systems Engineering
    • Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics
  • May 2000 – June 2001 • Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Aeronautical Systems Center • OH
    • Executive Officer, Engineering Directorate
  • October 1997 – May 2000 • Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, F-22 System Program Office • OH
    • Development Engineer
    • Edges and Empennage Integrated Product Team Lead

Dissertation Title:
Qualitative Knowledge Construction for Engineering Systems: Extending the Design Structure Matrix Methodology in Scope and Procedure

Updated September 2007

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Jason E. Bartolomei
Jason E. Bartolomei

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Jason W. Black

Academic Background:

  • 2005 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Engineering Systems
  • 1994 • Notre Dame: BS in Electrical Engineering, BA in International Relations

Abbreviated CV:

  • Present • MIT
    • Post-Doctoral Associate: Conduct research on emerging technologies. Assist in graduate student research.
  • 10+ years service in US Army (Active & National Guard)
  • 3 years in Management/IT Consulting

Dissertation Title:
Integrating Demand into the U.S. Electric Power System: Technical, Economic, and Regulatory Frameworks for Responsive Load

Updated October 2005

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Jason Black
Jason W. Black

work email: jwblack "at" mit.edu

work phone: 617.253.6836

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Matthew Bunn

Academic Background:
  • February 2007 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Technology, Management, & Policy
  • 1985 • MIT, Political Science: S.B. & S.M. specializing in defense and arms control
Abbreviated CV:
  • 2002 – Present • Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs
    • Senior Research Associate; Managing the Atom Project
  • 1997 – 2001 • Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs
    • Assistant Director; Science, Technology, & Public Policy Program
  • 1994 – 1996 • Executive Office of the President, Office of Science & Technology Policy
    • Advisor
  • 1992 – 1996 • National Academy of Sciences
    • Study Director
  • 1986 – 1992 • Arms Control Association
    • Editor, Arms Control Today
    • Senior Research Analyst

Dissertation Title:
Guardians at the Gates of Hell: Estimating the Risk of Nuclear Theft and Terrorism – and Identifying the Highest-Priority Risks of Nuclear Theft

Updated April 2007

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Matthew Bunn

email: matthew_bunn "at" harvard.edu

phone: 617.495.9916

website: www.managingtheatom.org

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Serena Chan

Academic Background:

  • February 2005 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Engineering Systems
  • June 2000 • MIT, EECS: MEng in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
  • June 1999 • MIT, EECS: SB in Computer Science & Engineering, Minor in Economics

Abbreviated CV:

  • August 2005 - Present • Institute for Defense Analyses
    • Research Staff Member: Conduct analysis addressing the development, application, and management of computer and information technologies. Evaluating the capability of software development and systems engineering methods and processes to support defense programs. Developing and applying advanced architectural concepts for integrating distributed systems, and assessing large-scale information system designs and underlying technologies.
  • June 2002 - August 2002 • RAND
    • Summer Associate
  • June 2000 - January 2005 • MIT Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems
    • Research Assistant
  • June 1997 - June 2000 • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • Research Assistant
  • June 1996 - August 1996 • Tech Hackers, Inc.
    • Engineering Intern

Dissertation Title:
Architectures for a Space-Based Information Network with Shared On-Orbit Processing

Updated October 2005

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Serena Chan
work email: schan "at" ida.org

work phone: 703.933.6563

work address:
Institute for Defense Analyses
4850 Mark Center Dr.
Alexandria, VA 22311-1882

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Chia-Chin Cheng

Academic Background:

  • 2005 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Engineering Systems
  • 1993 • University of Michigan: M.S. in Public Health
  • 1990 • National Taiwan University: B.S. in Public Health
Abbreviated CV:
  • September 2006 – Present • UNEP Risø Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development (URC) • Denmark
    • Energy Scientist: energy efficiency in developing countries, CDM capacity building, linkages between energy, development and poverty reduction in Africa
  • November 2005 – May 2006 • The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI) • India
    • Research Associate
  • 1998 – 2005 • MIT Laboratory for Energy & the Environment (LFEE) • Cambridge, MA
    • Research Assistant
  • 2000 – 2002 • MIT Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability
  • 1993 – 1996 • CTCI Corporation
    • Engineer

Dissertation Title:
Electricity Demand-Side Management for an Energy Efficient Future in China: Technology Options and Policy Priorities

Updated October 2006

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Chian-Chin Cheng
Chia-Chin Cheng

email: mowmicheng "at" alum.mit.edu

work email: chia-chin.cheng "at" risoe.dk

work phone:
(+45) 46.77.51.16

work address:
UNEP Risø Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development
Risø National Laboratory, Bldg. 142
Frederiksborgvej 399
P.O. Box 49
DK 4000 Roskilde
Denmark

website:
http://uneprisoe.org

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Heidi L. Davidz

Academic Background:

  • 2006 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Engineering Systems
  • 2001 • University of Cincinnati and UC-GE Advanced Courses in Engineering program: MS in Aerospace Engineering
  • 1997 • The Ohio State University: BS in Mechanical Engineering

Abbreviated CV:

  • Present • The Aerospace Corporation
    • Senior Member of the Technical Staff: Systems Architecture, Engineering and Cost
  • 2001 - 2005 • MIT
    • Research Assistant in the Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI)
  • 2002 - 2005 • MIT
    • Graduate Resident Tutor (GRT)
  • 1998-2001 • GE Aircraft Engines
    • Edison Engineering Development Program (EEDP) Engineer
  • 1997-1998 • Rocketdyne Division of Boeing
    • Test Operations Engineer
  • 1995-1996 • GE Aircraft Engines
    • Test Facilities Engineering Intern
    • Large Military Engines Life Management Engineering Intern

Dissertation Title:
Enabling Systems Thinking to Accelerate the Development of Senior Systems Engineers

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Heidi Davidz
Heidi L. Davidz

email: Heidi.L.Davidz "at" aero.org
phone: 617.258.7984

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Mark de Figueiredo

Academic Background:
  • February 2007 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Technology, Management & Policy
  • MIT: S.M. in Technology & Policy (TPP)
  • MIT: S.M. in Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • MIT: S.B. in Mechanical Engineering
Abbreviated CV:
  • MIT, Laboratory for Energy & the Environment
    • Research Assistant
Dissertation Title:
The Liability of Carbon Dioxide Storage

Updated April 2007

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Mark de Figueiredo

email: defig "at" mit.edu
phone: 617.253.3770

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Rebecca S. Dodder

Academic Background:
  • September 2006 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Technology, Management, & Policy
  • 1999 • George Washington University: M.A. in Science, Technology & Public Policy
  • 1997 • Vanderbilt University: B.A. in Physics and Spanish
Abbreviated CV:
  • 2006 – Present • MIT, Program on Emerging Technologies (PoET) • Cambridge, MA
    • Postdoctoral Associate
  • 2004 – 2005 • Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) • Mexico City, Mexico
    • Consultant to the Access Americas Initiative
  • 2003 – 2005 • Integrated Program on Urban, Regional & Global Air Pollution • Mexico City, Mexico
    • Researcher
  • 1999 – 2003 • MIT, Integrated Program on Urban, Regional & Global Air Pollution • Cambridge, MA
    • Research Assistant
  • 1997 – 1999 • Academy for Educational Development • Washington, DC
    • Research Assistant to the Vice President of the System Services Division
  • 1997 • International Technology Consultants • Washington, DC
    • Researcher
  • 1995 • Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment • Denver, CO
    • Research Intern

Dissertation Title:
Air Quality and Intelligent Transportation Systems: Understanding Integrated Innovation, Deployment and Adaptation of Public Technologies

Updated August 2006

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Rebecca S. Dodder
Rebecca S. Dodder

work email:
dodder "at" mit.edu

email:
rebecca.dodder "at" gmail.com

phone: 303.524.4365

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Troy D. Downen

Academic Background:
  • 2005 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Engineering Systems
  • 2002 • MIT: SM in Aeronautics & Astronautics
  • 1995 • University of Kansas; Lawrence, KS: MS in Aerospace Engineering
  • 1993 • University of Kansas; Lawrence, KS: BS in Aerospace Engineering
Abbreviated CV:
  • 2004 – Present • Raytheon Aircraft Company
    • 2006 – Present • Deputy Chief Engineer, Hawker 4000
    • 2004 – 2006 • Senior Engineer, New Product Development: Develop and maintain company strategic product development plan. Track technology and competitive trends. Lead new product development projects through early conceptual design stages.
  • 1995 – 2000 • Raytheon Aircraft Company, Premier I Aerodynamics Group
    • Design, test and certification of the Premier I light business jet. Handled qualities analysis, wind tunnel testing, and flight test support and analysis. Led the engineering effort to develop a real-time pilot training flight simulator for the Premier I aircraft.
    • 2000 • Company Scholarship, Aldo R. Miccioli Scholarship: Competed and won scholarship to pursue full-time graduate studies at MIT.
    • 1998 & 1995 • Company Award, "Outstanding Engineers": Troy and fellow test team members won the award because of their efforts in wind tunnel testing and flight test.

Dissertation Title:
A Multi-Attribute Value Assessment Method for the Early Product Development Phase With Application to the Business Airplane Industry

Updated August 2006

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Troy Downen
Troy D. Downen

work email: troy_downen "at" raytheon.com

work phone: 316.676.4110

work address:
Raytheon Aircraft Company
9709 E. Central Ave.
Wichita, KS 67201-0085

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Terence Ping-Ching Fan

Academic Background:

  • 2004 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Technology, Management, & Policy
  • 1999 • MIT: SM in Aeronautics & Astronautics and in Technology & Policy
  • 1997 • University of British Columbia; Vancouver, Canada: BASc in Mechanical Engineering

Abbreviated CV:

  • 2003 - Present • Singapore Management University, Lee Kong Chang School of Business
    • Assistant Professor
  • Previous experience:
    • McKinsey & Company
    • Boeing
    • World Bank
    • Exxon-Imperial Oil
    • British Columbia Hydro

Dissertation Title:
Market-based Airport Demand Management: Theory, Model and Applications

Updated on November 2005

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Terence Ping-Ching Fan
email: tpfan "at" alum.mit.edu

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Erica Fuchs

Academic Background:

  • June 2006 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Engineering Systems
  • June 2003 • S.M. Technology and Policy, Engineering Systems Division; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • June 1999 • S.B. Materials Science and Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abbreviated CV:
  • 2007 – Present • Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh, PA
    • Assistant Professor of Engineering & Public Policy

Dissertation Title:
The Impact of Manufacturing Offshore on Technology Development Paths in the Automotive and Optoelectronics Industries

Research Description:
Erica's dissertation, “Innovation Myopia: Beyond Labor Savings in Offshore Manufacturing,” presents a two-case study of the impact of manufacturing offshore on the technology trajectory of the firm and the industry. It looks in particular at the automotive and optoelectronics industries. Erica's dissertation uses an innovative combination of engineering modeling and qualitative research methods to provide insights into this question. Her results find several similarities across the two cases. (1) The relative economic positions of the emerging technology and the prevailing design shift when production is transferred to developing East Asia. (2) While the emerging design is more cost-competitive in the U.S. production structure, the prevailing design is more cost-competitive in the developing East Asia production structure. (3) Firms choose to produce the prevailing design offshore. (4) Although the firms' decisions to produce the prevailing design offshore are rational in a static model, they fail to take into account dynamic diseconomies - specifically, disincentives and disadvantages for innovations critical to long-term markets. ("Innovation Myopia")

Erica’s research interests include the geography of design, product development, and innovation. More information on Erica including her curriculum vitae, research statement, teaching statement, and working papers can be found on her website at http://web.mit.edu/erhf/www/index.html.

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Erica Fuchs
Erica Fuchs

email: erhf "at" andrew.cmu.edu

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Ralph Hall

Academic Background:

  • 2006 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Technology, Management, & Policy
  • 2002 • MIT, ESD: S.M. in Technology & Policy
  • 2002 • MIT, ESD: S.M. in Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • 1999 • University of Southampton: MEng in Civil Engineering

Abbreviated CV:

Academic

  • February 2006 – May 2006 • MIT ESD, PhD Program
    • Teaching Assistant: ESD’s doctoral seminar
  • 2002, 2003, & 2006 • University of Cambridge, Judge Business School
    • Co-developed and delivered two case studies for the Technology Policy Program at Judge Business School.
  • 2003 – 2006 • MIT
    • Guest Lecturer: Lectured on the concept of sustainable development and sustainable transportation in three different MIT graduate courses.
  • September 2003 – December 2003 • MIT ESD, Technology & Policy Program (TPP)
    • Teaching Assistant: Introductory course in technology and policy
  • June 2002 – August 2002 • University of Cambridge, Judge Business School
    • Assisted the Judge Business School with the creation of a new Master’s degree program in Technology Policy funded by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI)

Policy/Government

  • Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST), U.S. DOT
    • August 2004 • Briefed senior transportation officials on the concept of sustainable development/transportation.
    • June 2003 – August 2003 • Helped the OST organize the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) workshop entitled “Fostering Successful Implementation of Sustainable Urban Travel Policies.”
    • June 2001 – August 2001 • Prepared sections of a policy document explaining the U.S. DOT’s position regarding reauthorization of the surface Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21). Developed recommendations for the inclusion of sustainable transportation policies/legislation in the reauthorization of TEA-21.

Engineering/Consulting

  • September 1999 – July 2000 • Halcrow, Transport Business Group
    • Helped develop a new series of highway maintenance performance specifications required as part of the UK Highways Agency’s new strategy to establish performance specified maintenance contracts.
  • July 1998 – September 1998 • Halcrow, Water Business Group
    • Tested and commissioned a major sewerage pumping station as part of the $200 million Barcelona Sewerage Rehabilitation Project in Venezuela.
  • July 1996 – September 1996 • Halcrow, Consulting Business Group
    • Prepared status reports for the Chief Executive of Halcrow Water on the development of an asset management and maintenance model used to predict the operational and capital expenditure required to maintain/improve a city’s water distribution.

Dissertation Title:
Understanding and Applying the Concept of Sustainable Development to Transportation Planning and Decision-making in the U.S.

Updated June 2006

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Ralph Hall
Ralph Hall

email: rphall "at" mit.edu
phone: 617.258.9349

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Mo-Han Hsieh

Academic Background
  • 2008 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Engineering Systems
  • 2002 • Georgia Institute of Technology: M.S. in Industrial Engineering
  • 1999 • National Taiwan University: M.S. in Structural Engineering
  • 1997 • National Taiwan University: B.S. in Civil Engineering
Abbreviated CV:
  • United Parcel Service (UPS) International Inc.
  • Sinon Orchid Corporation • Beijing, China

Dissertation Title:
Standards as Interdependent Artifacts: the Case of the Internet

Updated March 2008

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\Mo-Han Hsieh
Mo-Han Hsieh

email: mohan76 "at" mit.edu
phone: 617.253.3054

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Kenneth Guang-Lih Huang

Academic Background:
  • 2006 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Technology, Management, & Policy
  • 2003 • MIT, ESD: S.M. in Technology & Policy (TPP)
  • 2001 • Johns Hopkins University: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering; B.S. in Electrical Engineering; & Minor in Mathematics
Abbreviated CV:
  • 2006 – Present • Singapore Management University, Lee Kong Chian School of Business
    • Assistant Professor of Management
  • 2005 – 2006 • MIT Sloan School of Management, Sloan Fellows Program
    • Teaching Instructor: Statistics for Managers
  • 2003 – 2006 • MIT Sloan School of Management, Entrepreneurship Center
    • Research Assistant
    • Teaching Assistant: M. B.A. course "Strategic Decision Making for the Sciences"
  • 2003 • University of Cambridge, UK, Judge Business School
    • Visiting Research Scholar
    • Co-developed two graduate technology policy/M. B.A. courses
  • 2002 – Present • Consulting
    • Charles River Laboratories
    • Helicos BioSciences Corporation
    • Master Card International

Dissertation Title:
Innovation in the Life Sciences: the Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Scientific Knowledge Diffusion, Accumulation and Utilization

Updated August 2006

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Kenneth Guang-Lih Huang

email: kennethhuang "at" alum.mit.edu

work address:
Singapore Management University
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
50 Stamford Road #05-01
Singapore 178899, Singapore

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Konstantinos Kalligeros

Academic Background:

  • June 2006 •  MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Engineering Systems
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Cambridge, USA Sep.00 - Jun.02
    Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering,
    Center for Construction Research and Education
    GPA 4.9/5
  • National Technical University Athens (NTUA)
    Athens, Greece
    Sep.95 - Jun.00
    Diploma, Structural Engineering (5-yr.)

Dissertation Title:
Using real options for engineering systems design: framework, applicability and limitations (tentative)

Research Description:
Optimization of option contract portfolios is closely related to recent scientific efforts in design optimization of engineering systems for flexibility in a strategic time scale. Similar research is noted in stochastic optimization literature.

The initial (and current) aspiration is to develop a framework in which option-like characteristics can be optimized in engineering systems design.

Personal Website:
http://web.mit.edu/kkall/www/index.htm

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Konstantinos Kalligeros
Konstantinos Kalligeros

email: kkall "at" mit.edu
phone: 617.968.0248

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Andjelka Kelic

Academic Background:

  • 2005 • MIT, ESD: Ph.D. in Technology, Management, & Policy
  • 1998 • MIT, ESD: SM in Technology & Policy and in Aeronautics & Astronautics
  • 1995 • University of Michigan: BS in Aerospace Engineering and in Politcal Science

Abbreviated CV:

  • Present • Sandia National Laboratories, Critical Infrastructures Modeling and Simulation Group
  • August 1997 - February 2006 • MIT's Information Systems & Technology
    • Residential Networking Coordinator & Security Analyst: Experience complimented her thesis in residential networking.
  • Lockheed Martin
    • Intern
  • Ford Motor Company
    • Intern
  • National Air & Space Museum
    • Intern

Dissertation Title:
Networking Technology Adoption: System Dynamics Modeling of Fiber-to-the-Home

Personal Website:
http://web.mit.edu/sly/www/

Updated October 2005

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Andjelka Kelic
Andjelka Kelic

email: sly "at" mit.edu

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