Jose Ramirez-Marquez (jmarquez)

Jose Ramirez-Marquez

Associate Professor and Division Director of Enterprise Science and Engineering

Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science

Department of Systems and Enterprises

Babbio Center 548
(201) 216-8003
(201) 216-5541
Website

Education

  • PhD (2004) Rutgers (Industrial and Systems Engineering)

Research

Dr. Ramirez Marquez research efforts focus on three main thrusts:
Urban Informatics Primary research area includes the development of analytics, models, and methods for quantifying, estimating, and improving the performance of urban-based systems. The main focus of research is on computational social systems that involve understanding the relationship between citizens and the city. Concepts of reliability, vulnerability, and resilience/adaptability are explored with a focus on community well-being, equitability and justice, and infrastructure performance.Data Visualization for Decision Making Exploratory research area on the use of visualization techniques as a means to aid decision-making and communication of outcomes. The current focus is on developing appropriate visuals so that “wicked” problems can be solved through a mixture of crowds and machine learning algorithms. This area plays at the interface of human-machine interactions.
AI & ML Techniques This area includes the development of evolutionary optimization approaches, artificial intelligence, and machine learning that can be used for single or multiple objective optimization problems. The primary focus is on urban-based problems but applications to other areas such as architecture are also involved.

General Information

Dr. Ramirez Marquez a former Fulbright Scholar, he holds degrees from Rutgers University in Industrial Engineering (Ph.D. and M.Sc.) and Statistics (M.Sc.) and from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Actuarial Science.

Experience

Dr. Ramirez Marquez has over 25 years experience conducting research. Dr. Ramirez-Marquez has conducted funded research for both private industry and government and, has published over 100 refereed manuscripts in technical journals, book chapters and industry reports.

Institutional Service

  • Dcotoral Committee Member
  • P&T Committee Member
  • SSE Academci Council Member
  • ATEAM Member
  • SSE Hiring Committee Member
  • SSE TT Mentor Member
  • APAR Member
  • EM/ISE Committee Member
  • PHD Committee Member
  • Stevens NSF-Aspire Study on Developing More Inclusive and Diverse Faculty Member
  • Women at Stevens Committee Member
  • Dean Zhu Reappointment Committee Member
  • Faculty Senate Member
  • Benefits Committee Member
  • Faculty Senate Member

Professional Service

  • IFORS Scientific Chair
  • IISE Transactions Associate editor
  • RAMS Associate editor

Appointments

Dr. Ramirez Marquez is an Associate Professor at the Department of Systems and Enterprises and serves as the Director of Analytics for AIRC.

Honors and Awards

Davis Memorial Award for Research Excellence,“Ramirez-Marquez, J.E. and B.J. Sauser. (2009). System Development Planning via System Maturity Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 56(3):533-548”, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2010

Professional Societies

  • Reliability Availability and Maintainability – RAMS Member
  • IISE Member

Grants, Contracts and Funds

SERC WRT-1097: Proposal AI-based DPCAP FAR/DFARS Change Support Tool, PI, October 2024, $54,572
AIRC WRT-1097.18.1: Acquisition Reform Text Analysis Portal, PI, October 2024, $59,000
AIRC WRT-1081 13: Research in Data Science, PI, February 2024 $250,000 Stevens Account# 2103639
Walking to School in Latin America, Volvo Research Foundation, VREF 2024, PI Stevens, with Krstikj Tec de Monterrey, 2024, $4,100
Curricula for Startup Business Operations, Financing, and Intellectual Property Recommendations and Strategies for the Defense Acquisition Workforce and Undergraduate Programs, SERC/AIRC (Sponsor: Defense Acquisition University), PI Stevens on AIRC Sub-Task, WRT-1081.16, 2023 $41,977
Leveraging NLP for Skill Identification and Talent Management in the Department of Defense, AIRC (Sponsor: OUSD (A&S)), Stevens PI on DCTC Sub-Task, WRT-1080, 2023, $83,854
Demonstrating a J-Book Key Word Search Association Proof-of-Concept, Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Reform(a legislative advisory committee established under Section 1004 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, Public Law 117-81, 12/27/2021), (Sponsor: PPBE Commission) Stevens PI on PPBE Commission Sub-Task, WRT-1079, 2023, $41,977
SaTC: CORE: Small: Socio-Technical Approaches for Securing Cyber-Physical Systems from False Claim Attacks, NSF, PI-Stevens, 2023, $80,000
Future Resilient Systems Phase 2, Singapore -ETH Centre (SEC), Co-PI 2019.

Selected Publications

Conference Proceeding

  1. Gongora-Svartzman, G.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2021). Combining Quality of Service and Quality of Experience to Visualize and Analyze City Services. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (pp. 46-54).
  2. Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2020). Study on Patterns and Effect of Task Diversity in Software Crowdsourcing. Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2020).
  3. Mejorado, D. M.; Saremi, R.; Yang, Y.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2020). Study on patterns and effect of task diversity in software crowdsourcing. International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement.
  4. Borrelli, D.; Saremi, R.; Vallabhaneni, S.; Pugliese, A.; Shankar, R.; Martinez-Mejorado, D.; Iandoli, L.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Lipizzi, C. (2020). WINS: Web Interface for Network Science via Natural Language Distributed Representations. Communications in Computer and Information Science (vol. 1224 CCIS, pp. 614-621).
  5. Babvey, P.; Lipizzi, C.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2019). Dissecting twitter discussion threads with topic-aware network visualization. Proceedings - 6th Annual Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2019 (pp. 1359-1364).
  6. Tang, D.; Fang, Y.; Zio, E.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2019). Analysis of the Vulnerability of Smart Grids to Social Network-Based Attacks. Proceedings - 2018 3rd International Conference on System Reliability and Safety, ICSRS 2018 (pp. 130-134).

Editorial, Journal

  1. Barker, K.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Sansavini, G. (2019). Introduction to Resilience Analytics for Cyber–Physical–Social Networks. Risk Analysis (9 ed., vol. 39, pp. 1867-1869).

Journal Article

  1. Zavala, A.; Nowicki, D.; Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2024). Simultaneous Consideration of System Design and Post-Production Support Network Decisions in the Context of a Performance-Based Contract. IEEE Access (vol. 12, pp. 111782-111800). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3442672.
  2. Caddell, J. D.; Rose Nilchiani, R.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2024). Unveiling Knowledge Structures Within Organizations: A Novel Network Weighting Framework. IEEE Access (vol. 12, pp. 71349-71360). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3403039.
  3. Zavala, A.; Verma, D.; Marquez, J. E. (2024). Exploring over a decade of systems engineering research center: A community detection and text analytics approach. Systems Engineering. Wiley.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sys.21760.
  4. Muñoz, O.; Monroy, R.; Cañete-Sifuentes, L.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2024). Automated Discovery of Successful Strategies in Association Football. Applied Sciences (4 ed., vol. 14, pp. 1403). MDPI AG.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app14041403.
  5. Muñoz, O.; Monroy, R.; Cañete-Sifuentes, L.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2024). Automated Discovery of Successful Strategies in Association Football. Applied Sciences (Switzerland) (4 ed., vol. 14).
  6. Perez-Pereda, M. J.; Krstikj, A.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2024). Improving Fairness and Equity by Minimizing Community Vulnerability to Food Accessibility: A Computational Urbanism Approach. Social Indicators Research (2 ed., vol. 171, pp. 567-584). Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-023-03269-5.
  7. Perez-Pereda, M. J.; Krstikj, A.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2024). Improving Fairness and Equity by Minimizing Community Vulnerability to Food Accessibility: A Computational Urbanism Approach. Social Indicators Research (2 ed., vol. 171, pp. 567-584).
  8. Zavala, A.; Nowicki, D.; Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2024). Simultaneous Consideration of System Design and Post-Production Support Network Decisions in the Context of a Performance-Based Contract. IEEE Access (vol. 12, pp. 111782-111800).
  9. Caddell, J. D.; Nilchiani, R. R.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2024). Unveiling Knowledge Structures Within Organizations: A Novel Network Weighting Framework. IEEE Access (vol. 12, pp. 71349-71360).
  10. Martinez-Mejorado, D.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2023). A Multidimensional Framework to Uncover Insights of Group Performance and Outcomes in Competitive Environments With a Case Study of FIFA World Cups. IEEE Access (vol. 11, pp. 32776-32791).
  11. Gilgur, A.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2022). Modeling mobility, risk, and pandemic severity during the first year of COVID. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (vol. 84).
  12. Gongora-Svartzman, G.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2022). Social Cohesion: Mitigating Societal Risk in Case Studies of Digital Media in Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Risk Analysis (8 ed., vol. 42, pp. 1686-1703).
  13. Perez-Pereda, M. J.; Babvey, P.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Pepe, K.; Verma, D. (2022). Impacts of work-at-home policies on systems engineers and the general population. Systems Engineering (4 ed., vol. 25, pp. 304-341).
  14. Borrelli, D.; Iandoli, L.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Lipizzi, C. (2022). A Quantitative and Content-Based Approach for Evaluating the Impact of Counter Narratives on Affective Polarization in Online Discussions. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (3 ed., vol. 9, pp. 914-925).
  15. Borrelli, D.; Iandoli, L.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Lipizzi, C. (2022). A Quantitative and Content-Based Approach for Evaluating the Impact of Counter Narratives on Affective Polarization in Online Discussions. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (3 ed., vol. 9, pp. 914-925).
  16. Gilgur, A.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2022). Modeling mobility, risk, and pandemic severity during the first year of COVID. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.
  17. Vargas-Santiago, M.; Monroy, R.; Zhang, C.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. E.; León-Velasco, D. A. (2021). The adaptable Pareto set problem for facility location: A video game approach[Formula presented]. Expert Systems with Applications (vol. 186).
  18. Liu, T.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Jagupilla, S. C.; Prigiobbe, V. N. (2021). Combining a statistical model with machine learning to predict groundwater flooding (or infiltration) into sewer networks. Journal of Hydrology (vol. 603).
  19. Liu, T.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Jagupilla, S. C.; Prigiobbe, V. N. (2021). Combining a statistical model with machine learning to predict groundwater flooding (or infiltration) into sewer networks. Journal of Hydrology (vol. 603).
  20. Babvey, P.; Gongora-Svartzman, G.; Lipizzi, C.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2021). Content-based user classifier to uncover information exchange in disaster-motivated networks. PLoS ONE (11 November ed., vol. 16).
  21. Cueto-Manzano, A. M.; Espinel-Bermúdez, M. C.; Hernández-González, S. O.; Rojas-Campos, E.; Nava-Zavala, A. H.; Fuentes-Orozco, C.; Balderas-Peña, L. M.; González-Ojeda, A.; Cortes-Sanabria, L.; Mireles-Ramírez, M. A.; Ramírez-Márquez, J. J.; Martínez-Gutiérrez, P. E.; Ávila-Morán, M.; De-Dios-Pérez, R. I.; Acosta-Ramírez, C.; Hernández-García, H. R. (2021). Risk factors for mortality of adult patients with COVID-19 hospitalised in an emerging country: A cohort study. BMJ Open (7 ed., vol. 11).
  22. Rocco, C. M.; Barker, K.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2021). Multi-objective power grid interdiction model considering network synchronizability. International Journal of Performability Engineering (7 ed., vol. 17, pp. 609-618).
  23. Rocco, C. M.; Barker, K.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2021). Multi-objective power grid interdiction model considering network synchronizability. International Journal of Performability Engineering (7 ed., vol. 17, pp. 609-618).
  24. Zhu, H.; Zhang, C.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Wu, S.; Monroy, R. (2021). The Integration of Protection, Restoration, and Adaptive Flow Redistribution in Building Resilient Networked Critical Infrastructures against Intentional Attacks. IEEE Systems Journal (2 ed., vol. 15, pp. 2959-2970).
  25. Babvey, P.; Capela, F.; Cappa, C.; Lipizzi, C.; Petrowski, N.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2021). Using social media data for assessing children's exposure to violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Child Abuse and Neglect (vol. 116).
  26. Babvey, P.; Borrelli, D.; Lipizzi, C.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2021). Content-Aware Galaxies: Digital Fingerprints of Discussions on Social Media. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (2 ed., vol. 8, pp. 294-307).
  27. Borrelli, D.; Iandoli, L.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Lipizzi, C. (2021). A Quantitative and Content-Based Approach for Evaluating the Impact of Counter Narratives on Affective Polarization in Online Discussions. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
  28. Silva-Galvez, A.; Monroy, R.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Zhang, C. (2021). A video game-crowdsourcing approach to discover a player's strategy for problem solution to housing development. IEEE Access (vol. 9, pp. 114870-114883).
  29. Vargas-Santiago, M.; Monroy, R.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. E.; Zhang, C.; Leon-Velasco, D. A.; Zhu, H. (2020). Complementing solutions to optimization problems via crowdsourcing on video game plays. Applied Sciences (Switzerland) (23 ed., vol. 10, pp. 1-27).
  30. Zavala, A.; Soneji, S.; Kothari, S.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Tao, H. Y.; Hutchison, N. (2020). Systems Engineers' Effectiveness in an Organization: Text and Visual Analytics Approach. IEEE Systems Journal (4 ed., vol. 14, pp. 5049-5060).
  31. Gilgur, A.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2020). Using Deductive Reasoning to Identify Unhappy Communities. Social Indicators Research (2 ed., vol. 152, pp. 581-605).
  32. Kakadia, D.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2020). Machine learning approaches for network resiliency optimization for service provider networks. Computers and Industrial Engineering (vol. 146).
  33. Andrade, R.; Moazeni, S.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2020). A systems perspective on contact centers and customer service reliability modeling. Systems Engineering (2 ed., vol. 23, pp. 221-236).
  34. Xu, Z.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Liu, Y.; Xiahou, T. (2020). A new resilience-based component importance measure for multi-state networks. Reliability Engineering and System Safety (vol. 193).
  35. Kakadia, D.; Ramirez-Marquez, D. J. (2020). Quantitative approaches for optimization of user experience based on network resilience for wireless service provider networks. Reliability Engineering and System Safety (vol. 193).
  36. Hosseini, S.; Kalam, S.; Barker, K.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2020). Scheduling multi-component maintenance with a greedy heuristic local search algorithm. Soft Computing (1 ed., vol. 24, pp. 351-366).
  37. Gongora Svartzman, G.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Barker, K. (2020). Social media analytics to connect system performability and quality of experience, with an application to Citibike. Computers and Industrial Engineering (vol. 139).
  38. Gilgur, A.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2020). Using Deductive Reasoning to Identify Unhappy Communities. Social Indicators Research.
  39. de Oliveira Capela, F.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2019). Detecting urban identity perception via newspaper topic modeling. Cities (vol. 93, pp. 72-83).
  40. de Oliveira Capela, F.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2019). Detecting urban identity perception via newspaper topic modeling. Cities (vol. 93, pp. 72-83).
  41. Garcia Tapia, A.; Suarez, M.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Barker, K. (2019). Evaluating and Visualizing the Economic Impact of Commercial Districts Due to an Electric Power Network Disruption. Risk Analysis (9 ed., vol. 39, pp. 2032-2053).
  42. Dessavre, D. G.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2019). Nar-A-Viz: A methodology to visually extract the narrative structure of text. Computer Speech and Language (vol. 57, pp. 81-97).
  43. Dessavre, D. G.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2019). Nar-A-Viz: A methodology to visually extract the narrative structure of text. Computer Speech and Language (vol. 57, pp. 81-97).
  44. Cervantes, B.; Gómez, F.; Monroy, R.; Loyola-González, O.; Medina-Pérez, M. A.; Ramírez-Márquez, J. (2019). Pattern-based and visual analytics for visitor analysis on websites. Applied Sciences (Switzerland) (18 ed., vol. 9).
  45. Garcia-Mancilla, J.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Lipizzi, C.; Vesonder, G.; Gonzalez, V. M. (2019). Characterizing negative sentiments in at-risk populations via crowd computing: a computational social science approach. International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (3 ed., vol. 7, pp. 165-177).
  46. Zavala, A.; Nowicki, D.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2019). Quantitative metrics to analyze supply chain resilience and associated costs. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability (2 ed., vol. 233, pp. 186-199).
  47. Loyola-González, O.; López-Cuevas, A.; Medina-Pérez, M. A.; Camiña, B.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Monroy, R. (2019). Fusing pattern discovery and visual analytics approaches in tweet propagation. Information Fusion (vol. 46, pp. 91-101).
  48. Zavala, A.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2019). Visual analytics for identifying product disruptions and effects via social media. International Journal of Production Economics (vol. 208, pp. 544-559).
  49. Tang, D.; Fang, Y. P.; Zio, E.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2019). Resilience of Smart Power Grids to False Pricing Attacks in the Social Network. IEEE Access (vol. 7, pp. 80491-80505).
  50. Hosseini, S.; Kalam, S.; Barker, K.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2019). Scheduling multi-component maintenance with a greedy heuristic local search algorithm. Soft Computing.
  51. Rocco, C. M.; Barker, K.; Moronta, J.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2018). Community detection and resilience in multi-source, multi-terminal networks. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability (6 ed., vol. 232, pp. 616-626).
  52. McCarter, M.; Barker, K.; Johansson, J.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2018). A bi-objective formulation for robust defense strategies in multi-commodity networks. Reliability Engineering and System Safety (vol. 176, pp. 154-161).
  53. López-Cuevas, A.; Medina-Pérez, M. A.; Monroy, R.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Trejo, L. A. (2018). FiToViz: A Visualisation Approach for Real-Time Risk Situation Awareness. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (3 ed., vol. 9, pp. 372-382).

Review, Journal

  1. Ray, D.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2020). A framework for probabilistic model-based engineering and data synthesis. Reliability Engineering and System Safety (vol. 193).

Courses

On-Campus Undergraduate Courses Taught at Stevens
• EM 457 Elements of Operations Research (Lab & Theory)
• EM 551 Networks
Graduate Courses Taught at Stevens
• SYS 645 Reliability, Maintainability & Supportability •
• SYS 640 Supportability & Logistics
• EM 622 Data Visualization Techniques for Decision Making
• ES 660 Multi-Agent Socio-Technical Systems Spring 2019, Spring 2020

Off-Campus Graduate Courses Taught
• SDOE 645 Reliability, Maintainability & Supportability