OU ISE Faculty Member Kash Barker Named Fulbright Scholar

 Kash Barker, Ph.D., a David L. Boren Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the Gallogly College of Engineering, has been selected to receive a Fulbright U.S. Scholar fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Barker is among approximately 800 U.S. scholars, artists and professionals selected for the honor. As Fulbright scholars, they will receive a grant to conduct research or teach abroad for the next academic year and will have the opportunity to exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to challenges facing communities and the world.

Barker was selected for the Fulbright Finland Foundation’s Seeking Solutions for Global Challenges program. He will spend five months at Aalto University in Finland working with Ahti Salo, a leader in decision analysis, to research how to more effectively make relocation decisions for refugees driven from their home countries due to the effects of climate change.

 Barker has spent the last 14 years studying the reliability, resilience and impacts of infrastructure networks and the communities that rely on them. He will also spend part of his Fulbright stay offering lectures in the Systems Analysis Laboratory at Aalto University.

 Read more about OU’s 2022-2023 Fulbright awardees here: https://www.ou.edu/web/news_events/articles/news_2022/two-ou-professors-named-fulbright-us-scholar-fellows

ISE Project Receives Seed Funding for DoD Supply Chain Research

The Data Institute for Societal Challenges and the Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Innovation Institute awarded $20,000 in seed funding to a team of OU ISE professors Kash Barker and Andrés González, who are working with Elena Bessarabova in the OU Department of Communication and Sridhar Radhakrishnan in the OU School of Computer Science. The one-year multi-disciplinary project “Securing Critical Networks from Weaponized Disinformation Attacks” explores how disinformation can be spread to adversely impact critical networks, including supply chain networks.