Mark Lawley

Research Interests

Mark Lawley is deputy director of the TEES Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems (CRHTS) and TEES research professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on supervisory control and optimal decision making in large, man-made systems, with applications to automated manufacturing, condition monitoring, networked infrastructure, and health care delivery. As a researcher in academics, he has authored more than 100 technical papers that have garnered four best paper awards and several other best paper nominations. Two of his papers have been recognized as being among the most highly cited in IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers) Transactions. Lawley has been involved in more than 30 funded grants totaling $6 million, serving as principal investigator on more than 20 of these. His funding sources have included the National Science Foundation, The National Institutes of Health, The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, The Indiana State Department of Public Health, The Indiana Hospital Association, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, General Motors, and Union Pacific Railroad.

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign