Faculty Profiles
| Ali Mostashari, PhD |
 Dr. Ali Mostashari is the Director of the Infrastructure Systems Program and the Director of Center for Complex Adaptive Sociotechnological Systems (COMPASS) at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he also serves as an Associate Professor at the School of Systems and Enterprises. Dr. Mostashari serves as the Co-Chair of the Global Conference on Systems and Enterprises and is a member of International Council for Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA). He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Systems/Technology, Management and Policy from MIT, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering/Transportation from MIT, a Master of Science in Technology and Policy from MIT, a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering/Biotechnology from the University of Nebraska and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering/Energy Systems from Sharif University of Technology. Dr. Mostashari's research interests include complex sociotechnological systems such as the cognitive/smart power grid, transportation and energy infrastructure systems and complex social/organizational systems. He teaches courses on Systems Engineering Research Methods, Infrastructure Systems and Dynamic Modeling of Systems and Enterprises. During his tenure at Steven, Dr. Mostashari has served as a Principal and co-Principal investigator on major research grants related to port infrastructure resilience and agile systems engineering concept of operations. He is the author of 25 peer reviewed journal and conference papers and has authored or co-authored published and forthcoming books on Stakeholder-Assisted Modeling of Complex Sociotechnical Systems, Science of Sociotechnical Networks and Critical Infrastructure Resilience. He has contributed multiple book chapters on various aspects of complex systems, sustainable development, energy and environment. From 2004-2008, Dr. Mostashari served as a strategic advisor to the Assistant Secretary General for Africa at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He lead an oversight and performance management function for over $1.1 billion in annual development project portfolio in Africa and played a key role on various strategic initiatives at UNDP, including the Strategic Plan 2008-2011, the Enterprise Risk Management initiative, the Results-Based Management working group, the Balanced Scorecard working group and many others. From 2004-2006 Ali served as the LEAD Project Manager for the UNDP ARMADA Initiative, that increased development project delivery in the continent from $380 million to over $922 million within two years. In 2007 he was selected as a Asia 21 Young Leader. He has been nominated by the UNDP Assistant Secretary General for Africa for the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders 2008 award. Ali was selected as a top finalist of UNDP's Leadership Development Programme from over 7000 applicants from 78 countries worldwide. |
| John V. Farr, PhD |
 John V. Farr is a Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management and Associate Dean for Academics in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. He was the founding Director of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at Stevens from 2000 to 2007. Before coming to Stevens in 2000, he was a Professor of Engineering Management at the United States Military Academy at West Point where he was the first civilian professor in engineering and Director of their Engineering Management Program. He is a former past president and Fellow of American Society for Engineering Management, a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of the Army Science Board and Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies. His is a former editor of the Journal of Management in Engineering and the founder of the Engineering Management Practice Periodical. He has authored over 100 technical publications including one textbook. He earned his undergraduate degree from Mississippi State University and Masters and PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue and the University of Michigan, respectively. He is a registered Civil Engineer in the states of Mississippi and New York. |
| Mo Mansouri, PhD |
 Dr. Mo Mansouri joined the School of Systems and Enterprises in July 2006. His research interests are resilience in Infrastructure Systems and Infrastructure Governance. Prior to joining Stevens he served as a consultant for the HAND Foundation, the World Bank, NIAC and other non-profit entities. Dr. Mansouri holds a PhD in Engineering Management from George Washington University. |
| Roshanak Nilchiani, PhD |
 Dr. Roshanak Nilchiani has joined the faculty of the School of Systems and Enterprises in 2006. She received her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at MIT, where she worked on flexible space systems design, particularly for communications satellites and DARPA's Orbital Express program. During her time at MIT she also worked on projects related to JPL's Next Generation Mars Rover and Nuclear-powered missions to Mars. She has also served as a mission anaysis and design consultant to 4Frontiers, a commercial space exploration company aiming at commercial colonization of Mars, the moon and near earth asteroids.At Stevens, Dr. Nilchiani is engaged in research n risk-based complex engineering systems design and critical infrastructure systems resilience, with particular focus on energy, transportation and telecommunications infrastructure. She has also engaged in resesarch on system of systems testing and evaluation, dynamics of disruptive technologies, systems and enterprise architecture. |
| Jose E. Ramirez-Marquez, PhD |
 Dr. Ramirez-Marquez comes from Rutgers University where he was involved in research focused on developing methods for optimizing system performance. He has also worked on modeling complex systems that have numerous performance levels. |
| Brian Sauser, PhD |
 Brian Sauser holds a B.S. from Texas A&M University in Agricultural Development with an emphasis in Horticulture Technology, a M.S. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in Bioresource Engineering, and a Ph.D. from Stevens Institute of Technology in Project Management. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Systems & Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches courses in Project Management of Complex Systems, Designing and Managing the Development Enterprise, and Systems Thinking. In addition, he is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Faculty Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of the Systems Research Forum, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal, and the Associate Editor of the ICST Transactions on Systomics, Cybernetics, and e-Culture. |