Keith Werle

Keith Werle
Keith.Werle@Scheller.Gatech.edu

Keith Werle is Managing Director of the Business Analytics Center and a Professor of the Practice in Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. 

With over thirty years of experience in industry and consulting, his background spans a broad range of business disciplines including finance, analytics, strategy, and corporate development. He has consulted in many industries and for a diverse range of clients, from venture capital backed technology start-ups to global Fortune 50 companies. His client work focused on business analytics and the application of advanced data visualization, multi-dimensional performance analysis, data mining and machine learning techniques in strategy development, decision support, and operations management.

Managing Director, Business Analytics Center
Additional Research

Data Mining; Visualizations

IRI and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Affiliated Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology

Jarod Weber

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jarod.weber@gatech.edu
Research Program Manager
Phone
404.385.4058
Office
GTMI 222/Callaway Manufacturing Research Building
IRI and Role
Manufacturing > Staff
Manufacturing
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology

Rebecca A. Watts Hull

Rebecca A. Watts Hull
rwattshull@gatech.edu

Rebecca Watts Hull is assistant director, faculty development for sustainability education initiatives for the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), with a courtesy appointment in the School of History and Sociology. Rebecca works with faculty to incorporate Education for Sustainable Development into their course design and teaching practices. She partners with other units to lead strategic initiatives related to sustainability education, including Sustainability Next’s Education for Sustainable Development implementation plan. Prior to her current role, Rebecca served as a Service Learning and Partnerships Specialist with the Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain (SLS), and she continues to collaborate closely with Georgia Tech's community-based learning initiatives. She facilitates the "Scaling up Sustainability Across the Curriculum Community of Practice" of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) which supports collaboration among sustainability education professionals at dozens of colleges and universities. Rebecca also serves on AASHE's Advisory Council and STARS Steering Committee. Before her work at Georgia Tech, Rebecca held sustainability and educational leadership roles in the public, private and nonprofit sectors with responsibilities that included faculty development, science and environmental curriculum design, and community-based environmental education and advocacy. Rebecca earned an M.S. and Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in History and Sociology of Technology and Science, focusing her research on social movements and organizational change, and holds an M.S. in Natural Resources and Environment from the University of Michigan. She has taught Sustainability Leadership at Emory University, Environment and Sustainability Studies at Agnes Scott College, and American Environmental History, Social Movements, Community Organizing, and Organizing for Social Change at Georgia Tech.

Assistant Director
Senior Academic Professional
Faculty Development for Sustainability Education Initiatives, Center for Teaching and Learning
IRI and Role
Energy
Sustainable Systems > Core Partners
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Areas
Sustainable Systems
  • Sustainability Education Research

Ben Wang

Ben Wang
ben.wang@gatech.edu

Ben Wang is Professor Emeritus in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. In addition, Dr. Wang previously served as the Executive Director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute. 

Dr. Wang's primary research interest is in applying emerging technologies to improve manufacturing competitiveness. He specializes in process development for affordable composite materials. Dr. Wang is widely acknowledged as a pioneer in the growing field of nanomaterials science. His main area of research involves a material known as "buckypaper", which has shown promise in a variety of applications, including the development of aerospace structures, improvements in energy and power efficiency, enhancements in thermal management of engineering systems, and construction of the next-generation of computer displays.

Dr. Wang served on the National Materials and Manufacturing Board (NMMB). NMMB is the principal forum at the U.S. National Academies for issues related to innovative materials and advanced manufacturing, and has oversight responsibility for National Research Council activities in these technology areas. Dr. Wang is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering.

Because of his contributions to advanced manufacturing and materials, Dr. Wang was invited to deliver a presentation to the U.S. National Research Council Review Panel in support of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2005. In 2012, he was invited to give testimony before the National Academies Committee on Manufacturing Extension Partnership. In 2012 he was invited to participate in the Roundtable on Strengthening U.S. Advanced Manufacturing in Clean Energy in the White House.

In addition to authoring or co-authoring more than 240 refereed journal papers, he is a co-author of three books: Computer-Aided Manufacturing (Prentice-Hall, 1st Edition, 2nd Edition, and 3rd Edition), Computer-Aided Process Planning (Elsevier Science Publishers), and Computer Aided Manufacturing PC Application Software (Delmar Publishers).

Dr. Wang earned his bachelor's in industrial engineering from Tunghai University in Taiwan, and his master's in industrial engineering and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.

Former Executive Director, Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute
IRI and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Affiliated Faculty
Manufacturing
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology

Yifei Wang

Yifei Wang
yifei.wang@gatech.edu
Senior Research Scientist
Office
Cherry Emerson 233
Additional Research
Data Science, Artificial Life, Evolutionary Dynamics, Computational Biology, Collective Behavior, Complex Systems
IRI and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Affiliated Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology

Robin Wade

Robin Wade
Robin.Wade@rbi.gatech.edu
Director of Business Operations
Phone
404-894-6672
IRI and Role
Renewable Bioproducts > Leadership
Renewable Bioproducts
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology

Sherri Von Behren

Sherri Von Behren
sherri.vonbehren@isye.gatech.edu

Sherri joined the Business Analytics Center at Scheller College of Business in August 2017 as the Corporate Engagement Manager. She is responsible for identifying, developing and maintaining corporate partnerships that drive collaboration between the Business Analytics Center and the analytics industry. 

Before joining the Business Analytics Center, Sherri worked as a Corporate Relations Manager for the Georgia Tech Master of Science in Analytics Program. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she built a 25+ year accomplished track record in business development, corporate relations, program management and fund raising. Her extensive experience spans multiple industry sectors in Technology, Consumer Products, Education and Nonprofit.

Corporate Engagement Manager
IRI and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Research Community
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology

Richard Vuduc

Richard Vuduc
richie@cc.gatech.edu

Richard (Rich) Vuduc is an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”), in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, a department devoted to the study of computer-based modeling and simulation of natural and engineered systems. His research lab, The HPC Garage (@hpcgarage), is interested in high-performance computing, with an emphasis on algorithms, performance analysis, and performance engineering. He is a recipient of a DARPA Computer Science Study Groupgrant; an NSF CAREER award; a collaborative Gordon Bell Prize in 2010; Lockheed-Martin Aeronautics Company Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2013); and Best Paper Awards at the SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM, 2012) and the IEEE Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS, 2015), among others. He has also served as his department’s Associate Chair and Director of its graduate programs. External to Georgia Tech, he currently serves as Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing (2018-2020); co-chaired the Technical Papers Program of the “Supercomputing” (SC) Conference in 2016; and serves as an associate editor of both the International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral scholar in the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Associate Professor
IRI and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Affiliated Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology

Germán Vergara

Germán Vergara
vergara@gatech.edu
Assistant Professor
Phone
404.894.0535
Office
Old CE Building G20
Additional Research
Agriculture, Health, and the Environment Energy, Climate and Environmental Policy Global Cities and Urban Society History of Technology/Engineering and Society Modern Global History/Science, Technology, and Nationalism
IRI and Role
Energy > Research Community
Energy
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology