System Performance Laboratory
Welcome to the System Performance Lab (SPL)
The mission of the lab is to support ISE academic programs and project sponsors with ongoing research and professional services that advance understanding and knowledge of System Performance and contribute to the enabling technology available for design, test, operation, and management of high-performance complex systems. The goal is to provide a quality of service to sponsors, students, and faculty that result in the contribution of knowledge formation, technology advancement, and economic development throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, and beyond.
Research activities in the SPL include:
- Enterprise Performance Measurement (Metrics and Improvement)
- Data Envelopment Analysis
- Fuzzy Sets and Logic
- System Dynamics Modeling
- Design of Quality Management Systems
- Engineering Administration
- Systems Engineering Management and Systems Science
- Influential Observation Identification
- Process Definition, Performance Analysis and Re-engineering
- Infrastructure Systems (Resilience and Sustainability)
- Evaluation and Assessment of R&D Enterprises
News + Updates
Mohsenirad, PhD Candidate at the SPL, has been selected for the 2025 Summer Cunningham Fellowship! This is a competitive award granted to support graduate students in the final stages of their doctoral studies.
On April 25th, 2025, Wilmer Alvarado, PhD Candidate at the SPL, successfully defended his PhD thesis "Essays on Human Error in Electronic Health Records (EHR) Information Security". Congratulations Dr. Alvarado!
New Vibrant Virginia Grant!
“The Future of Next: Empowering Youth in Decision Science and Human-Automation Interactions Through "STEMkits"
Prof. Kostas Triantis and the System Performance Lab will host the 12th North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW) in June 2025 at the Virginia Tech Research Center in Arlington, Virginia.
