Curricula Vitae in UPS Informatics & Engineering Syst

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Richmond Adebiaye Associate Professor		Richmond Adebiaye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics and Engineering Systems, University of SC Upstate.
Dr. Deshia Ann Breaux Associate Professor	Informatics	Deshia Leonhirth, Ph.D. teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of South Carolina Upstate in areas such as health informatics, public health statistics, vendor management, strategic management, and quality improvement. Deshia earned her Master of Business Administration at Winthrop University and her doctorate in health services policy management at the University of South Carolina. She has also taught courses at our partner university in Landshut, Germany.
Dr. Ona Egbue Associate Professor	Analysis of energy and transportation systems, Critical infrastructure resilience, Socio-technical system analysis, Technology and innovation adoption, Management of sustainable engineering systems	Dr. Egbue’s research interests include socio-technical system analysis, critical infrastructure resilience, management of sustainable engineering systems, technology/innovation adoption, analysis of energy and transportation systems and decision-making for complex systems as well as engineering education. Dr. Egbue has an extensive record of peer-reviewed publications and funding including funding from the National Science Foundation. She is a certified professional in engineering manager
Mr. Timothy Ellis Senior Instructor	Natural Sciences and Engineering
Dr. Ron D. Fulbright Professor	Computer-Aided innovation, Teaching innovation, Self-Organizing Multiagent Energent Systems	Innovation is a skill that can be taught just like reading, writing, and arithmetic. Recently Dr. Fulbright has authored and is teaching several courses teaching Innovative Problem Solving (IPS), a discipline from I-TRIZ. These courses can teach anyone to innovate and synthesize non-obvious ideas in any domain of discourse. Dr. Fulbright also offers innovative problem solving as a consultative service.
Dr. Polinpapilinho Katina, PhD Assistant Professor	Critical Infrastructure Systems, Manufacturing Systems, Complex System Governance	Dr. Katina has conducted research, taught, and published in research on a number of topics including Blockchain Technology, Complex System Governance, Critical Infrastructure Systems, Engineering Management, Manufacturing Systems, Requirements Engineering, Resilient Systems, Risk Engineering, System Pathology, and System-of-Systems. His profile includes more than 150 peer-reviewed articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and books.
Donald Nick Rouse Senior Instructor	Informatics	Dr. Nick Rouse received his doctorate in adult education from the University of Georgia and his post-baccalaureate certification in health information administration from the University of Toledo. Additionally, he has a Master of Business Administration, a Master of Science, a Bachelor of Science and associate degrees. His primary responsibility is managing the Health Information Management (HIM) program. He has been a program director for more than a decade, mostly with the HIM program.
Tyrone S. Toland Department Chair/Professor	Database security, Information retrieval, Web mining	Dr. Tyrone Toland is Professor of Informatics in the Department of Informatics and Engineering Systems, where he also serves as the Department Chair. Dr. Toland earned his Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of South Carolina, and a Bachelor of Science in computer science applied mathematics from the University of South Carolina Upstate (Spartanburg). He has extensive experience in systems development from industry.
Grover Cecil Walters Assistant Professor		Grover graduated from the University of South Carolina Upstate with a Bachelor of Science in computer science, and then went on to earn a Master of Science in information technology from the Florida Institute of Technology. Grover is currently pursuing a Doctorate from the University of South Florida.