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Ellen CZAIKA

Academic Background:

• 2010 - present • MIT, ESD: PhD student Candidate in Engineering Systems
• 2010 • MIT, System Design and Management: SM in Engineering and Management
• 2000 • Oxford University: MSc in Applied Statistics
• 1998 • Millsaps College: B.S. in mathematics, summa cum laude, with Honors in Physics

Work Experience:

• 2004 - 2009 • BAE Systems
  Functional Manager and Senior Systems Engineer
• 2002 - 2004 • IBM Business Consulting Services
  Management Consultant

• 2000 - 2002 • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  Management Consultant

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  Research Domain: sustainability

Research Methodology:

qualitative: ethnography, interviews, observation, etc.;

quantitative: modeling and simulation, experiments, system dynamicssurveys, etc.

Research Description:

Ellen 's focus includes sustainability, design and innovation, and collaboration and conflict across organizational boundaries. explores how mathematical models are used in sustainability negotiations. For her dissertation work, she focuses on two arenas of sustainability negotiations: commercial supply chains and intra-governmental infrastructure planning. For the former, she uses The Cup Game, a negotiation role-play simulation she created based on a real-life coffee cup supply chain. For the latter, she conducts experiments with the 3E Game, wherein participants try to suggest a sustainable infrastructure plan for a desert nation. She also studies design, innovation, and leadership.

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