People

Bilal Ayyub
Professor
Area of Expertise:
Measurement science for resilience and sustainability, design and adaptation to a changing climate, civilian and defense infrastructure resilience, risk, and reliability, global catastrophic risks, autonomous systems and control, big data and offset technology prediction
Greg Baecher
Professor
Area of Expertise:
Geoenvironmental engineering, reliability and risk analysis, environmental history
Michelle Bensi
Assistant Professor
Area of Expertise:
Probabilistic risk assessment and risk-informed applications, risk assessment of infrastructure systems, structural reliability and systems modeling, decision support for applications involving civil infrastructure systems, application of machine learning to civil engineering problems, Bayesian networks and other applications of Bayesian methods
William Braniff
Executive Director, START
Area of Expertise:
Terrorism, counterterrorism, countering violent extremism
Kaye Brubaker
Associate Professor
Area of Expertise:
Hydrology and hydroclimatology, computer models, remotely-sensed data, geograhic information systems, theory of space-time random fields
Alex Duffy
Faculty Assistant
Area of Expertise:
Infrastructure management, fire engineering, landscape urbanism, geospatial analysis and representation
Bart Forman
Assistant Professor
Area of Expertise:
Hydrology and land surface processes, hydrometeorology, satellite-based remote sensing of snow, machine learning applications, ground-based remote sensing of soil moisture and precipitation
Gerry Galloway
Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering
Area of Expertise:
Water resources policy and management, disaster resilience, national security
Michael Gollner
Associate Professor
Area of Expertise:
Wildland and wildland-urban interface fires, buoyancy-driven fluid dynamics, environmental sustainability, fire dynamics, combustion, material flammability
 Marccus D Hendricks
Assistant Professor
Area of Expertise:
Infrastructure planning and management, social vulnerability to disaster, hazard mitigation planning, community resilience, damage and condition assessment, community engagement
Katrina Groth
Assistant Professor
Area of Expertise:
Risk analysis, system safety, failure analysis, human reliability analysis, human-machine interaction, decision making under uncertainty, Bayesian networks, Bayesian methods
Sandra Knight
Senior Research Engineer
Area of Expertise:
Disaster resilience, water and disaster policy, research to operations, coastal and hydraulic engineering
Ed Link
Senior Research Engineer
Area of Expertise:
Water resources policy and management, natural disaster mitigation, remote sensing
Stewart Milner
Research Professor
Area of Expertise:
Scalability of dynamic wireless networks and topology control in hybrid free space optical/RF directional, wireless networks, optical wireless sensor networks for critical infrastructure surveillance and broadband optical/RF wireless networks
Dan Nees, CDR Faculty Affiliate
Director, EFC
Elaine Oran
Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering
Area of Expertise:
Origins and consequences of explosions and extreme events, forensics for accidental explosions, evaluation and study of origins of large-scale natural, accidental and deliberate explosions, numerical modeling and theory combustion interactions, large-scale, high-performance computing, development of multidimensional, multiscale numerical models of complex reactive flows
Allison Reilly
Assistant Professor
Area of Expertise:
Hazard risk assessments, decision-making, infrastructure system performance and protection
Noah Ryder
Visiting Research Associate
Area of Expertise:
Fire and explosion hazard and risk assessment, fire and explosion computational fluid dynamics modeling, performance-based design, advanced suppression and detection systems applied research, safety and design of energy storage solutions, forensic investigations of fire and explosions
Miroslaw Skibniewski.
Professor in Construction Engineering and Management
Area of Expertise:
Construction engineering and management, automation and robotics, information technology
Kathleen Stewart
Associate Professor
Area of Expertise:
Geospatial dynamics, spatiotemporal data modeling, mobility, geospatial semantics, spatial accessibility, GIS and health
Arnaud Trouvé
Professor
Area of Expertise:
Computational fluid dynamics, fire modeling, data assimilation, turbulent combustion, thermal radiation, fire suppression