Systems Engineering [M.Eng. administered by College of Engineering]

Field Description

Contemporary challenges are marked by a level of systemic complexity that defies narrow, discipline-specific interpretation. When problems are examined solely through isolated disciplinary lenses, knowledge becomes fragmented even though the real world functions as an integrated whole. Applying such partial insights to multifaceted contexts invites unintended consequences. Classical analytic approaches — rooted in reductionism and linear causality — prove inadequate for capturing the nonlinear feedback loops, emergent behaviors, and adaptive dynamics that characterize modern systems. Accordingly, Systems Engineering has emerged as a research field committed to cultivating holistic understanding grounded in interconnectedness — perspectives inaccessible from any single specialty. Researchers in the Systems Engineering field strive to collaborate across diverse technical and social domains, cocreating and advancing integrative methodologies and rigorous inquiry capable of illuminating complex phenomena and informing robust solutions to technological and societal challenges.

Contact Information

Website: http://www.systemseng.cornell.edu
Email: systemseng@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-4756

606 Rhodes Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853

Data and Statistics

• Doctoral Program Statistics

Field Manual

• Manual

Subject and Degrees

Systems

• Systems (M.S.) (Ithaca)
• Systems (Ph.D.) (Ithaca)

Systems Engineering

• Systems Engineering (M.Eng.) (Distance, Online, Low-residency, or Hybrid option)
• Systems Engineering (M.Eng.) (Ithaca)

Concentrations by Subject

Systems

• Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering

• systems engineering

Faculty

C. Lindsay Anderson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering

Ken Birman

• Campus: Cornell ILR NYC
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering

Anastasia Sergeyevna Bizyaeva

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: Collective intelligence in biological and social systems, autonomous and artificially intelligent behavior in engineered teams, dynamical systems and control theory, data-driven modeling of complex systems, multi-agent control and swarm autonomy, biologically inspired systems engineering, machine learning analysis through dynamical systems and control theory, and interdisciplinary collaboration across biology, social psychology, and robotics.

Mark Campbell

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: space systems; estimation and control; autonomy in aerospace systems; controlled structures

Ricardo Alvarez Daziano

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: incentives and adoption of renewable energy sources

Timur Kamil Dogan

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: daylighting, energy modeling, passive climate control strategies, and performance driven design workflows in both urban and architectural scale

Christopher J. Earls

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence

H. Oliver Gao

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: systems engineering

Raymond Richard Geddes

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: research studies policies focused on the delivery of infrastructure projects in the transportation, water and energy sectors

David Alan Goldberg

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: Algorithms, Data Science, Applied Probability, Statistics and Machine Learning

Miguel I. Gomez

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: sustainable food systems; marketing and food distribution

Adrian Lewis

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: algorithms; optimization

Mark E. Lewis

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: optimization and stochastic control in queueing and production problems, emergency healthcare systems

Andreas Malikopoulos

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: My research interests span several areas, including analysis, optimization, and control of cyber-physical systems; decentralized stochastic systems; stochastic scheduling and resource allocation; and learning in complex systems.

Jacob Paul Mays

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: Industrial Engineering, Energy Systems

Andrew C Myers

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: computer security; software engineering

Linda K Nozick

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: math modeling of complex systems; transportation; project planning and scheduling

Cara Mae Nunez

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: Robotics, haptics, and human-centered design for medical applications, human-machine interaction, augmented and virtual reality, and STEM education, among others.

Francesca Parise

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: Complex Systems, Network Science and Computation, Analysis and Control

Mason A. Peck

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: systems engineering; space technology; dynamics, control, and estimation; attitude determination and kinematics; robotics

Jamol J. Pender

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: non-stationary queues; non-stationary Markov processes; financial engineering

Yifan Peng

• Campus: Weill Cornell Medicine
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: Biomedical / Clinical Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning for Healthcare, and Biomedical Image Processing

Kirstin Hagelskjaer Petersen

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: AI, Bio-inspired robotics

Peter M. Rich

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering

Bart Selman

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: computer science; artificial intelligence

Robert Shepherd

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering

Semida Silveira

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: energy systems planning, energy transition, energy for sustainable development

Vivek Srikrishnan

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: climate risk management, at the interface of systems engineering, climate dynamics, economics, data science, and decision science

Jefferson W. Tester

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: energy systems

Lang Tong

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: statistical inference, decisions and signal processing, future power energy systems and smart grids, information security, wireless communications and information theory

Huseyin Topaloglu

• Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: transportation logistics; supply chain management; large scale optimization; approximate dynamic programming

Hakim Weatherspoon

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: Information systems

Clifford Alan Whitcomb

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: Complex Engineered Systems, Transdisciplinary System-of-Systems

Fengqi You

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering

Rana Sagha Zadeh

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: healthcare design; evidence-based design; sustainability; design innovation

Yiye Zhang

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Systems: Systems Engineering
• Research Interests: learning health systems