Intellectual Neighborhood

Risk and Reliability Faculty

	Mark Abkowitz Research Focus: Risk management, risk assessment, infrastructure resilience, freight transportation, spatial analysis, disaster preparedness Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Ghina Absi Research Focus: Engineering undergraduate education and project-based learning Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Hiba Baroud Research Focus: critical infrastructure systems modeling, risk analysis, statistical modeling, risk-informed decision analysis, resilience monitoring Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	David Berezov Research Focus: Tech-based entrepreneurship, finance and accounting, engineering economy Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	John Bers Research Focus: Technology strategy, technology marketing, enterprise systems design Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Bharat Bhuva Research Focus: Computer aided design tools, radiation effects on integrated circuits, modeling of semiconductor devices and fabrication processes, and VLSI design Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Janey Camp Research Focus: Spill management information system, geographic information system mapping, impacts of climate change on civil infrastructure Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Abhishek Dubey Research Focus: Decision Procedures, Big Data, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart-Cities, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Daniel Fleetwood Research Focus: Effects of ionizing radiation on microelectronic devices and materials, microelectronics reliability, defects and low-frequency noise. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Daniel France Research Focus: Health systems engineering, relationships between care delivery, provider performance, and patient safety Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Kenneth Galloway Research Focus: Solid state devices, microelectronics, reliability, radiation effects Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Andrew Garrabrants Research Focus: transportation of contaminants, subsurface environments, leaching methods, energy production residuals, construction waste reuse Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Jesus Gomez-Velez Research Focus: Environmental flow and transport, groundwater-surface water interactions, watershed hydrology, analytical and numerical modeling, data mining and assimilation Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Arto Javanainen Research Focus: Radiation effects and reliability in semiconductor devices Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Gabor Karsai Research Focus: Model-driven software and system development, model-integrated computing, distributed and resilient software platforms, verification and assurance of autonomous systems Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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). Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Amy Kauppila Research Focus: radiation effects on integrated circuits, computers and ethics  Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Xenofon Koutsoukos Research Focus: Hybrid and embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, sensor networks Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Sankaran Mahadevan Research Focus: Structural mechanics, materials durability, reliability and risk engineering, structural health diagnosis and prognosis, computational model uncertainty, optimization under uncertainty. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Lloyd Massengill Research Focus: Radiation-hardened circuit design, simulation of radiation effects on microelectronic circuits, soft error analysis, analog circuit design. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Himanshu Neema Research Focus: Heterogeneous simulation integration, modeling and simulation, cloud computing, model-integrated computing, design-space exploration, artificial intelligence, planning and scheduling Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Sandeep Neema Research Focus: Embedded systems, design-space exploration, model integrated computing Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Robert Reed Research Focus: Radiation effects on electronics Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Douglas Schmidt Research Focus: Mobile cloud computing, distributed real-time and embedded middleware, cyber-physical systems, software patterns and frameworks, and digital learning Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Ronald Schrimpf Research Focus: Semiconductor device physics, radiation effects and reliability in semiconductor devices, microelectronic test structures, and simulation tools for microelectronics Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Brian Sierawski Research Focus: Radiation effects on microelectronics, simulation software development, small satellites, and on-orbit experiments Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Andrew Sternberg Research Focus: Modeling of semiconductors and circuits in radiation environments, laser simulation of radiation effects Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Janos Sztipanovits Research Focus: Embedded software, Structurally adaptive systems, Model-integrated computing Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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) Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Lori Troxel Research Focus: Sustainable Design, Structural Design Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Hamp Turner Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Bryan Ward Research Focus: Systems security, real-time and embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, and operating systems. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Matt Weinger Research Focus: Human factors and systems engineering; human-system interaction, decision making, health care informatics Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Robert Weller Research Focus: Radiation effects in semiconductor devices and materials, computer simulation of radiation effects and semiconductor devices, thin film materials and nanostructures Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Francis Wells Research Focus: Arc detection in power equipment, discontinous control of space conditioning processes Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	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. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10
	Enxia Zhang Research Focus: radiation effects on microelectronics, RF devices and ICs  Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability	10