Welcome to the Risk-Based Systems Analytics Laboratory within the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. The lab focuses on the development of theory, methodology, and application towards risk-based decision making in engineering systems. Primary areas of interests lie in modeling the risk, resilience, and interdependent economic impacts of disruptions to critical infrastructure networks and the overarching community.

Recent News

• The research output of Kash and colleagues is listed among the top 0.5% in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research discipline and 0.05% in the Systems Engineering specialty on ScholarGPS. He also reached 8000 citations on Google Scholar.

• Kash, along with Ashly Townsen of the Air War College and OU colleagues Andres Gonzalez and Chie Noyori-Corbett, were awarded funding from the DoD Minerva Institute dealing with the relocation planning for climate refugees. OU's first such award!

• Kash gave a session keynote lecture at the 7th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety in Bologna, Italy in November 2023.

• Kash taught engineering statistics for a seventh time at OU's study center in Arezzo, Italy in November and December of 2023. #pizza

• Kash is heading a multi-disciplinary project funded by the National Science Foundation on false claim attacks and their weaponization against infrastructure networks. Also on the project are Andres Gonzalez, Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Elena Bessarabova, and John Jiang, all from OU, Matthew Weber from Rutgers University, Jose Ramirez-Marquez from Stevens Institute of Technology, and Yevgeniy Vorobeychik from Washington University in St. Louis.

• Alireza Rangrazjeddi, PhD, a co-advisee with Andres Gonzalez, defended his dissertation in July 2023 and will join Vanderbilt University as a post-doctoral scholar working with Hiba Baroud.

• Kash was awarded the Fellow distinction from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers at the IISE Annual Conference and Expo in May 2023.

• Saeed Jamalzadeh, PhD defended his dissertation in April 2023 and will join Bayer Corporation in Minneapolis, MN.

• Leili Soltanisehat, PhD was co-awarded the Best Dissertation award in the School of ISE for academic year 2022-23. She will join the Department of Decision and Information Sciences in the Charlton College of Business at the UMass Dartmouth.

• Kash was awarded the Senior Member distinction from IEEE.

• Kash was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Finland where he'll work with Ahti Salo at Aalto University in Spring 2023!

• Kash was awarded the John A. Myers Professorship by the Gallogly College of Engineering!

• After a two-year pandemic-induced hiatus, Kash taught engineering statistics for a sixth time at OU's campus in Arezzo, Italy in November and December of 2022. #pizza

• Leili Soltanisehat, PhD defended her dissertation and will continue as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Analytics in the School of Finance, Operations Management, and International Business at the University of Tulsa.

• PhD graduate Nafiseh Ghorbani-Renani was co-awarded the Best Dissertation award in the School of ISE for academic year 2021-22. She recently joined the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology as a teaching faculty member.

• Emma Kuttler was co-awarded the Outstanding MS Thesis award in the School of ISE for spring 2022!

• Kash was promoted to full professor in July 2021.

• Chris Bourgeois was co-awarded the Outstanding MS Thesis award in the School of ISE for spring 2021!

• Kash was awarded a David L. Boren Professorship in April 2020.

• Kash co-edited, with Jose Ramirez-Marquez of Stevens Institute of Technology and Giovanni Sansavini of ETH-Zurich, a special issue of Risk Analysis on "Resilience Analytics for Cyber-Physical-Social Networks." Check it out here!

• During the May 2019 intersession, Kash co-taught (with Andres Gonzalez, Assistant Professor in the OU School of ISE) a study abroad course in engineering professional development at OU's program in Puebla, Mexico. An incredible experience with some incredible students!

• Dr. Nazanin Morshedlou was awarded the 2019 Best Dissertation Award in the OU School of ISE, and Deniz Berfin Karakoc was awarded the 2019 Best Thesis Award. Wonderful honors for these wonderful scholars!

• Dr. Nazanin Morshedlou has accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Mississippi State University!

• Dr. Yasser Almoghathawi is an Assistant Professor on the Systems Engineering faculty of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals!

• Lab PhD graduate Hiba Baroud, an Assistant Professor and Littlejohn Faculty Fellow in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University, was awarded a Chancellor's Public Voices fellowship to provide resources to speak globally about her research on measuring impact and building resilience in infrastructures and communities.

• The journal article resulting from Molly Stam Floyd's MS thesis, broadly dealing with risk and uncertainty in project completion, was given the Eschenbach Award by the American Society for Engineering Management for the best paper in the Engineering Management Journal in 2018. Other co-authors include Claudio Rocco and Mackenzie Whitman.

• Two new Ph.D.s in the School of ISE this spring! Drs. Yasser Almoghathawi and Nazanin Morshedlou successfully defended their dissertations in Spring 2018. Tremendous scholars!

• Kash co-taught (with Drs. Gonzalez and Mohebbi) an OU Presidential Dream Course on the Analytics of Resilient Cyber-Physical-Social Systems! Our incredible guests included Enrico Zio, James Lambert, Femi Omitaomu, Ozlem Ergun, Alexander Gates, Laura Albert, Hiba Baroud, Cornelia Caragea, and Christopher Zobel.

• Ph.D. student Nazanin Morshedlou was given the 2017 Pursuit of Excellence Award for graduate students by the Gallogly College of Engineering. An outstanding award for an outstanding student!

• Kash is a program chair, along with Chase Rainwater of the University of Arkansas and Diana Berry of Harsco Rail, for the 2018 Annual Conference and Expo of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. Submit an abstract before November 9, and see you in Orlando, FL in May 2018!

• Ph.D. student Mohamad Darayi is a new Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering in the School of Professional Studies at the Great Valley campus of Penn State University. An incredible opportunity for an incredible scholar!

• Lab graduate Hiba Baroud was awarded the inaugural Littlejohn Dean Faculty Fellowship given to engineering junior faculty at Vanderbilt. Congrats to Dr. Baroud!

• Kash is trying to use Twitter. Follow him @kashbarker!

If you are interested in pursuing an undregraduate or graduate degree in the OU School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, or if you're interested in my research in particular, let me know!