Analytics of Resilient Cyber-Physical-Social Networks

James H. Lambert, Ph.D.
University of Virginia, USA
Chair, Fifth World Congress on Risk, Cape Town 2019

Dr. Lambert is a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a Diplomate of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a licensed Professional Engineer. He was President (2015-2016) of the worldwide SRA and is currently the Chair of the SRA Fifth World Congress on Risk in Cape Town in 2019. His efforts received the 2016 R.A. Glenn Best Paper Award of the American Chemical Society and several best-paper recognitions of the IEEE and others in recent years. He is a visiting professor of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He serves on the Standing Committee on Health Threats Resilience and Workforce Resilience of the US National Academy of Medicine. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal Environment Systems & Decisions, an Area Editor of the Wiley journal Risk Analysis, and an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Risk & Uncertainty in Engineering Systems. He served the faculty of the University of Virginia since 1996, where he is a Research Professor of Systems & Information Engineering and Research Professor of Engineering & Society. He is an alumnus of the University of Virginia (Ph.D., M.S.) and Princeton University (B.S.E.).

Olufemi A. Omitaomu, Ph.D.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee

Dr. Olufemi (Femi) A. Omitaomu is a Senior Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is also a team lead for Critical Infrastructure Modeling and Simulation research team within the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division at ORNL. In addition, he is the theme lead for the Urban Resiliency research within the Urban Dynamics Institute at ORNL. He is a scientific member of the Climate Change Science Institute at ORNL. Dr. Omitaomu is also a joint ORNL-UT Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; and an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee. His expertise includes applied artificial intelligence, statistical data mining, and modeling and simulation with applications in infrastructure systems, energy systems, and emergency response.

Özlem Ergun, Ph.D.
Global Resilience Institute, Northeastern University

Dr. Özlem Ergun’s research focuses on design and management of large-scale and decentralized networks. She has applied her work on network design, management, and resilience to problems arising in many critical systems including transportation, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare. Recently, Dr. Ergun has been employing systems thinking and mathematical modeling in applications with societal impact. She has worked with organizations that respond to emergencies and humanitarian crisis around the world, including UN WFP, UNHCR, IFRC, OXFAM America, CARE USA, FEMA, USACE, CDC, AFCEMA, and MedShare International. She was the Coca-Cola Associate Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology until August 2014. She also co-founded and co-directed the Health and Humanitarian Systems Research Center at the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute. She received a B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001.

Alexander Gates, Ph.D.
Northeastern University

Alexander Gates is a post-doctoral research associate at the Center for Complex Networks Research at Northeastern University. His academic research fuses mathematical and computational methods to study complex systems in biology, neuroscience, and sociology. Some of his recent contributions include a systematic quantification of control in gene regulatory networks, a dynamical protocell model for autopoiesis, and a novel framework for comparing overlapping and hierarchical clusters and communities. Before arriving at Northeastern, Alex received a joint Ph.D. degree in Informatics (complex systems track) and Cognitive Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, an M.Sc. from Kings College London in complex systems modeling, and a B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University. He currently works with Prof. Albert-László Barabási on the science of success and the dynamics of academic careers.

Laura A. Albert, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Laura Albert, Ph.D., is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Affairs in the College of Engineering and an Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests are in the field of operations research, with a particular focus on discrete optimization with application to homeland security and emergency response problems. Dr. Albert’s research has been supported by NSF, DHS, and the Department of the Army, Sandia National Laboratory, and she has been awarded an NSF CAREER award. She has authored or co-authored more than 50 publications in archival journals and refereed proceedings. Her research has been awarded several honors, including four best paper awards. Dr. Albert is the INFORMS Vice President for Marketing, Communication, and Outreach. She is the author of the blogs “Punk Rock Operations Research” and “Badger Bracketology.” You can find her on twitter at @lauraalbertphd.

Hiba Baroud, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University

Hiba Baroud is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Littlejohn Dean’s Faculty Fellow. Her work explores data analytics to measure and analyze the risk, reliability, and resilience in critical infrastructure systems. Hiba holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, a Master of Mathematics from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo, and a B.S. in Actuarial Science from Notre Dame University, Lebanon. Her prior experience includes a summer research with IBM at the Watson Research Center, a fellowship at the George Washington University Center for International Business Education and Research, and a visiting position in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Hiba is part of the Infrastructure Resilience Division in the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Engineering Specialty Group of the Society for Risk Analysis, and the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure.

Cornelia Caragea, Ph.D.
Kansas State University

Cornelia Caragea is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair at Kansas State University, where she directs the Machine Learning group. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Iowa State University and her B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Bucharest. Her research interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning, information retrieval, and natural language processing, with applications to text, image analysis, and social media. Caragea’s work has been recognized with several NSF research awards, including an NSF CAREER award. Caragea has published research papers in prestigious venues such as AAAI, IJCAI, WWW, EMNLP, ICDM, and ACM Transactions on the Web. She reviewed for many journals including Nature, ACM TIST, JAIR, TACL, and IEEE TKDE, served on several NSF panels, and was a program committee member for top conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, and SIGIR. Caragea also organized several workshops on scholarly big data co-located with IJCAI, AAAI, and IEEE Big Data.

Christopher W. Zobel, Ph.D.
Virginia Tech

Christopher W. Zobel is the R.B. Pamplin Professor of Business Information Technology in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. He earned a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.A. in Mathematics from Colgate University. Dr. Zobel's primary research interests include disaster operations management, humanitarian supply chains, and supply chain resilience, and he has published over 75 articles in archival journals and academic conference proceedings. He served two terms on the Board of Directors of the International Association for the Study of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), and he has been the Track Chair for the Analytical Modeling and Simulation track at the annual ISCRAM World Conference since 2011. Dr. Zobel is currently serving as one of the Co-Directors of Virginia Tech's Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program in Disaster Resilience. He was a 2015 Fulbright Scholar to Karlsruhe, Germany, and he is a faculty fellow in Virginia Tech's Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience, and an affiliated faculty member of the Global Change Center.