Emily Liu Appointed Head of Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
TROY, N.Y. — Professor Emily Liu, a condensed matter physicist and nuclear engineer, has been named head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, one of the oldest and most renowned technological research universities in the nation. Dr. Liu is professor of nuclear engineering and engineering physics and brings extensive experience leading and managing multidisciplinary research, including collaborations with engineers, scientists, economists, and psychologists.
Industrial and systems engineering is an interdisciplinary science exploring the data analysis and design of systems that involve nature, machines, and the human element. The ISE department at Rensselaer is home to internationally renowned undergraduate and graduate programs, including industrial and management engineering (B.S., M.S., and MEng), data science and engineering (B.S. minor), industrial and management engineering (M.S. and MEng), and decision sciences and engineering Systems (Ph.D.). The department is well known for addressing engineering problems that involve networked, interdependent, socio-technical systems in which humans play a critical part in decision making.