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Risk and Reliability Faculty

Mark Abkowitz

Research Focus: Risk management, risk assessment, infrastructure resilience, freight transportation, spatial analysis, disaster preparedness
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Ghina Absi

Research Focus: Engineering undergraduate education and project-based learning
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Douglas Adams

Research Focus: Nonlinear structural dynamics and vibrations, structural health monitoring/diagnostics and damage prognosis, noise and vibration control, aerospace and automotive systems, energy systems, defense and security platforms
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Michael Alles

Research Focus: Application of advanced and emerging semiconductor technologies in radiation environments, modeling and simulation of radiation effects in semiconductor devices and circuits, and workforce development
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Hiba Baroud

Research Focus: critical infrastructure systems modeling, risk analysis, statistical modeling, risk-informed decision analysis, resilience monitoring
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Prodyot (P.K.) Basu

Research Focus: Multiscale behavior of composites, rapid repair of damaged structures using composite patches, real-time health monitoring of bridge structures, and accurate modeling and simulation of complex high-performance material systems
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David Berezov

Research Focus: Tech-based entrepreneurship, finance and accounting, engineering economy
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John Bers

Research Focus: Technology strategy, technology marketing, enterprise systems design
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Bharat Bhuva

Research Focus: Computer aided design tools, radiation effects on integrated circuits, modeling of semiconductor devices and fabrication processes, and VLSI design
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Gautam Biswas

Research Focus: Model- and Data-Driven methods for Monitoring, Control, Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Fault tolerance in Cyber Physical Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Intelligent Learning Environments, Learning Analytics, Integrated Planning, Scheduling, Control, and Resource Allocation for Complex systems
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Kevin Brown

Research Focus: Life-cycle risk evaluation, model integration, and waste management issues related to proposed advanced nuclear fuel cycles and cementitious barriers for nuclear applications.
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Janey Camp

Research Focus: Spill management information system, geographic information system mapping, impacts of climate change on civil infrastructure
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Abhishek Dubey

Research Focus: Decision Procedures, Big Data, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart-Cities, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems
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Ravindra Duddu

Research Focus: Computational solid mechanics, multi-scale and multi-physics fracture mechanics, constitutive modeling, cohesive zone modeling of fatigue delamination, extended finite element method and level set method, computational geophysics.
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Russell Dunn

Research Focus: Polymer and chemical technologies, plant-wide design and optimization strategies, chemical product and process safety, polymer product characterization and failure analysis, and process integration
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Mona Ebrish

Research Focus: Developing multiple techniques to fabricate and evaluate biological and chemical sensors that can be integrated with efficient power devices on foundry compatible chiplets, small integrated circuits with specialized functionality that make up larger integrated circuits
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Daniel Fleetwood

Research Focus: Effects of ionizing radiation on microelectronic devices and materials, microelectronics reliability, defects and low-frequency noise.
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Daniel France

Research Focus: Health systems engineering, relationships between care delivery, provider performance, and patient safety
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Kenneth Galloway

Research Focus: Solid state devices, microelectronics, reliability, radiation effects
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Andrew Garrabrants

Research Focus: transportation of contaminants, subsurface environments, leaching methods, energy production residuals, construction waste reuse
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Jesus Gomez-Velez

Research Focus: Environmental flow and transport, groundwater-surface water interactions, watershed hydrology, analytical and numerical modeling, data mining and assimilation
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Arto Javanainen

Research Focus: Radiation effects and reliability in semiconductor devices
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Gabor Karsai

Research Focus: Model-driven software and system development, model-integrated computing, distributed and resilient software platforms, verification and assurance of autonomous systems
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Pranav Karve

Research Focus: Dr. Karve is a research assistant professor in the Risk, Reliability, and Resilience in engineering group. His research involves probabilistic diagnosis, probabilistic prognosis and optimization under uncertainty for engineering systems using physics-based and/or data-driven models for these systems. The applications that drive his work are in structural engineering (structural health monitoring, design of blast-hardened buildings), geophysics (full-waveform inversion), petroleum engineering (wave-based enhanced oil recovery), biomedical imaging (kidney stone detection and sizing), aerospace engineering (damage-adaptive rotorcraft maneuvering), composites manufacturing (real-time cure monitoring), and electrical engineering (optimal electrical power grid operations).
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Amy Kauppila

Research Focus: radiation effects on integrated circuits, computers and ethics 
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Jeffrey Kauppila

Research Focus: Radiation-Hardened Circuit Design, Radiation-Enabled Compact Modeling, Simulation of Radiation Effects on Circuits and Systems, Layout-Aware Modeling, Near-Threshold Computing, Digital Circuit Design, Analog Circuit Design, Mixed-Signal Circuit Design
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David Kosson

Research Focus: Nuclear waste management, environmental remediation, leaching assessment and methods, management of residuals from energy production, contaminant mass transfer applied to groundwater, soil, sediment and waste systems.
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Xenofon Koutsoukos

Research Focus: Hybrid and embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, sensor networks
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Eugene LeBoeuf

Research Focus: Environmental and water resources engineering, hydropower optimization and management, sustainability engineering, environmental security, and contaminant fate and transport applied to groundwater, soil, and sediment systems
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Sankaran Mahadevan

Research Focus: Structural mechanics, materials durability, reliability and risk engineering, structural health diagnosis and prognosis, computational model uncertainty, optimization under uncertainty.
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Lloyd Massengill

Research Focus: Radiation-hardened circuit design, simulation of radiation effects on microelectronic circuits, soft error analysis, analog circuit design.
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Himanshu Neema

Research Focus: Heterogeneous simulation integration, modeling and simulation, cloud computing, model-integrated computing, design-space exploration, artificial intelligence, planning and scheduling
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Sandeep Neema

Research Focus: Embedded systems, design-space exploration, model integrated computing
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Caglar Oskay

Research Focus: Multiscale computational failure modeling of solids and structures, life prediction and performance assessment of structures, computational modeling of composites and other heterogeneous materials, modeling of multiphysics systems
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Sokrates Pantelides

Research Focus:  Theoretical/computational -- Nanoscience and nanotechnology, semiconductors and semiconductor devices (defects, defects-mediated device degradation), complex oxides and heterostrutures, ferroelectrics, two-dimensional materials
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Craig Philip

Research Focus: Management and design of urban and freight transportation networks and operations, infrastructure resilience and application of risk management tools to public policy making, carrier safety management and regulation of 24/7/365 operations, water resource management and balancing multistakeholder interests.
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Robert Reed

Research Focus: Radiation effects on electronics
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Douglas Schmidt

Research Focus: Mobile cloud computing, distributed real-time and embedded middleware, cyber-physical systems, software patterns and frameworks, and digital learning
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Ronald Schrimpf

Research Focus: Semiconductor device physics, radiation effects and reliability in semiconductor devices, microelectronic test structures, and simulation tools for microelectronics
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Brian Sierawski

Research Focus: Radiation effects on microelectronics, simulation software development, small satellites, and on-orbit experiments
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Andrew Sternberg

Research Focus: Modeling of semiconductors and circuits in radiation environments, laser simulation of radiation effects
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Janos Sztipanovits

Research Focus: Embedded software, Structurally adaptive systems, Model-integrated computing
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Ahmad F. Taha

Research Focus: Dynamic networks and cyber-physical systems sciences; Sustainable power systems control, operation, and planning; Water distribution networks control and optimization; Transportation systems state estimation and feedback control problems; Cyber-security of power grids, water networks, and global positioning system (GPS)
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Lori Troxel

Research Focus: Sustainable Design, Structural Design
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Hamp Turner


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Matt Weinger

Research Focus: Human factors and systems engineering; human-system interaction, decision making, health care informatics
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Robert Weller

Research Focus: Radiation effects in semiconductor devices and materials, computer simulation of radiation effects and semiconductor devices, thin film materials and nanostructures
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Francis Wells

Research Focus: Arc detection in power equipment, discontinous control of space conditioning processes
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Arthur Witulski

Research Focus: Radiation effects on electronic power semiconductor devices and power electronic converters, radiation reliability of complex systems in radiation environments such as satellites and robots in nuclear disasters.
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Enxia Zhang

Research Focus: radiation effects on microelectronics, RF devices and ICs 
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