Disaster Preparedness
Upstate NY SRA Symposium
SUNY ESF - President's Room, 408 Baker Lab, Syracuse, NY
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Speaker Bios
Gregory S. Parnell is professor of systems engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point and teaches decision and risk analysis, systems engineering, and operations research. His research focuses on decision analysis, risk analysis, resource allocation, and systems engineering for defense, intelligence, homeland security, research and development (R&D), and environmental applications. He co-edited Decision Making for Systems Engineering and Management, Wiley Series in Systems Engineering (Wiley and Sons, 2008), and has published more than 100 papers and book chapters. He is a member of the Chief Technology Officer and Information Assurance Panels of the National Security Agency Advisory Board and is a former member of the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management National Prioritization Team. He is a senior principal with Innovative Decisions, Inc., a decision and risk analysis firm, and a former principal with Toffler Associates, a strategic advisory firm. Dr. Parnell is a former president of the Decision Analysis Society of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) and of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS). He has also served as editor of Journal of Military Operations Research. Dr. Parnell is a retired Air Force colonel with experience in space operations, R&D management, and operations research. Dr. Parnell received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and is a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He has received several professional awards, including the United States Army Dr. Wilbur B. Payne Memorial Award for Excellence in Analysis, MORS Clayton Thomas Laureate, two INFORMS Koopman Prizes, and the MORS Rist Prize. He was elected a fellow of the MORS in 1997 for his contributions to military operations research.
Keli Perrin is Assistant Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Adjunct Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law in 2004. As a joint degree student she also earned a Masters in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. After law school she served for two years as law clerk to the Honorable David N. Hurd, United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York. She earned her undergraduate degree from SUNY Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering Technology. She is admitted to practice in New York State and the Northern District of New York. She also is a member of the New York Bar Association. Perrin and co-instructor, Maxwell Dean Mitchell Wallerstein, recently developed an interdisciplinary course, Homeland Security: Federal Policy and Implementation Challenges, which draws students pursuing degrees in international relations, public administration and law. She is a member of the New York State Emergency Manager's Association and has completed ICS-400 training.
JiYoung Park is Assistant Professor of University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Urban Planning. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. (urban planning, University of Southern California) and an M.A. (economics), Seoul National University. Dr. Park currently teaches three graduate courses: Research Methods, Economic Concepts, and Quantitative Methods. He was appointed as part of UB2020's Extreme Events Strategic Strength. Dr. Park’s research interests are urban economics and transportation modeling as applied to natural and man-made environmental and security problems. Currently, he is developing a methodology to combine NIEMO with modal systems, funded by METRANS. He anticipates developing world-wide MRIO (Multi-regional Input-Output) models, including NIEMO, which is called ICEMAP (Inter-Countries Economic Model of Asian Pacific Rim). The economic and transportation models he developed are used to analyze economic impacts resulting from natural disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.