Project Management
Program Faculty & Staff
The faculty of the Project Management program is a diverse group with expertise in Decision Sciences, Project Management, Operations and Supply Chain Management, and Statistics. They have a robust commitment to excellence in learning and engage in a wide variety of research activities for both academics and practitioners.
The faculty for the Project Management program is housed in the Decision Sciences department. The program succeeds due to its support from our talented faculty, all leading scholars in the field of project management.
Faculty
Tevfik Aktekin, Assistant Research professor of Decisions Sciences
Ph.D., The George Washington University
Research Interests: Bayesian Inference and Stochastic Modeling in Service Operations Management
Courses Taught: Decision Models, Judgment/ Uncertainty and Decisions, Data Analysis and Decisions
Arshad Alam, Visiting Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences
Ph.D., The George Washington University
Area of Expertise: Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Operations Management, Marketing, Information Systems
Courses Taught: Production Management
Mehmet Sekip Altug, Visiting Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences
Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University
Area of Expertise: Supply Chain Management, Operations/Economics, Operations/Market Interfaces, Pricing, Inventory Theory, Game Theory, Contact and Mechanism Design, Stochastic Optimization
Courses Taught:Judgment/ Uncertainty and Decisions, Data Analysis and Decisions
Prabir Bagchi, Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Logistics and Operations Management
Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Area of Expertise: Operations Management, Global Supply Chain Management
Courses Taught:Purchasing and Materials Management, Logistics Management, Manufacturing Control Systems, Advanced Logistics, Operations Strategy
Denis F. Cioffi, Associate Professor of Decision Sciences
Ph.D., University of Colorado
Area of Expertise: Managing Creative Projects, Project Management Integration
Courses Taught: Introduction to Project and Program Management, Directed Computational Project Management, Planning and Scheduling, Capstone, Project Management Application
Philippe Delquié, Associate Professor of Decision Sciences
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Expertise: Decision Analysis, Measurers of Risk and Risk Preference, Multi-Objective Analysis, the Value of Information, Behavioral Decision Theory
Courses Taught: Judgment/ Uncertainty and Decisions, Data Analysis and Decisions
Ernest H. Forman, Professor of Management Sciences
D.Sc., The George Washington University
Area of Expertise: Decision Making, Resource Allocation, Forecasting, Information Technology
Courses Taught:Executive Decision Making, Decision Analysis, Statistical Modeling and Analysis, Project Portfolio Management
Theodore Glickman, Associate Professor of Management Science
Ph.D., John Hopkins University
Area of Expertise: Risk Analysis, Operations Research, Transportation and Logistics
Courses Taught: Mathematics and Statistics for Management, Analytical Models for Decision Making, Decision Models
Sanjay Jain, Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Area of Expertise: Modeling and Simulations, Project Management, Supply Chain Networks, Emergency Response
Courses Taught: Planning and Scheduling, Introduction to Project Management
Ahmad Jarrah, Associate Professor of Decision Sciences
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Area of Expertise: Optimization Theory, Logistics and Transportation, Airline Networks, Ground Freight Networks
Courses Taught: Supply Chain Operations, Risk Management, Deterministic Optimization Models and Algor
Shivraj Kanungo, Associate Professor of Management Science
Ph.D, The George Washington University
Area of Expertise: Information Technology Management, Software Engineering, IS Evaluation
Courses Taught: Introduction to Project and Program Management, Judgment/ Uncertainty and Decisions, Data Analysis and Decisions, Operations Strategy
Homayoun Khamooshi, Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences
Ph.D., Lancaster University, England
Area of Expertise: Project Management, Project Planning and Scheduling, Project Risk Analysis and Management, Mathematical Modeling and Simulation
Courses Taught: Mathematics and Statistics for Management, Planning and Scheduling, Directed Readings and Research, Directed Computational Project Management, Introduction to Project and Program Management
Young Hoon Kwak, Associate Professor of Decision Sciences
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Area of Expertise: Strategic Issues in Project Management, Project Risk Management, Project Control, Project Performance Improvement, Engineering, Construction, Infrastructure Management
Courses Taught: Risk Management, Capstone, Advanced Readings and Research, Introduction to Project Management, Planning and Scheduling
Miguel Lejeune, Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Area of Expertise: Stochastic Programming, Large-Scale Optimization, Financial Risk
Courses Taught: Stochastic Optimization, Judgment/ Uncertainty and Decisions, Data Analysis and Decisions
Marie Matta, Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences
Ph.D., Duke University
Area of Expertise: Operations Management, Supply Chain Management
Courses Taught: Logistics Management, Operations Strategy, Supply Chain Strategy
James Perry, Professor of Decision Sciences (Emeritus)
Ph.D., Stanford University
Area of Expertise: Operations Strategy
Srinivas Prasad, Associate Professor of Management Science
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Area of Expertise: Decision Support Systems, Preference Modeling in Distributed Systems, Communication Technologies and Applied Operations Research
Courses Taught: Analytical Models for Decision Making, Decision Support Systems, Decision Analysis, Data Mining, Executive Decision Making
Nozer Singpurwalla, Professor of Statistics and of Decision Sciences
Ph.D., New York University
Area of Expertise: Applied Probability and Bayesian Statistics, Reliability Theory, Warranties, Quality Control, Time Series Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Filtering Theory, Uncertainty in Expert Systems, Failure Data Analysis
Courses Taught: Statistics/Research courses
Refik Soyer, Professor of Management Science
D.Sc., George Washington University
Area of Expertise: Bayesian Statistics, Reliability Analysis, Stochastic Modeling, Time Series Analysis
Courses Taught: Analytical Models for Decision Making, Executive Decision Making, Decision Analysis, Statistical Modeling and Analysis, Applied Forecasting and Time-Series Analysis for Managers, Time Series, Bayesian Statistics
Philip Wirtz, Professor of Decision Sciences and Psychology
Ph.D., The George Washington University
Area of Expertise: Statistical Modeling, Research Methodology, Causal Modeling, Efficacy Evaluation in Randomized Clinical Trials, Aptitude-treatment Interactions
Courses Taught: Mathematics and Statistics for Management, Statistical Modeling and Analysis, Advanced Statistical Modeling and Analysis, Exploratory and Multivariate Data Analysis, Data Mining, Contemporary Topics in Statistical Analysis
David Zalkind, Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods and Management Information (Emeritus)
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Area of Expertise: Operations Research Applied to Health Services
Project Management Staff
Abby Walsh, Graduate Admissions Coordinator
Phone: (202) 994-1212
Email: mspminfo@gwu.edu
Anne Koprince, MSPM Director
Phone: (202) 994-1212
Email: koprince@gwu.edu
Decision Sciences Staff
Candice Johnson, Administrative Manager of Decision Science
Phone: (202) 994-6145
Dustin Pusch, Senior Secretary of Decision Science
Phone: (202) 994-6145