Dr. Bilal M. Ayyub

Dr. Bilal M. Ayyub, PE, Dist.M.ASCE, Hon.M.ASME, F.SEI, F.SNAME, F.SRA

Director of the Center for Technology and Systems Management
Campus Phone: 301-405-1956  |   Off Campus Phone: 3011-775-7872
Email: ba@umd.edu

 

Dr. Ayyub is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 1983, Professor of Reliability Engineering since 1985, and Professor of Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation since 2009; and was Consulting Professor at the U. S. Navy from 1993 to 2001, and visiting fellow at the National Security Analysis Department of the Applied Physics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University in 2015-16. He is also a board member of several research and development companies and non-profit organizations including start-up companies. He is a chair professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, China (2016-18). He completed his PhD degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta in 1983

Dr. Ayyub’s main research interests and work are in risk, uncertainty and decision analysis, resilience, sustainability and adaptation to a changing climate, and systems engineering applied to civil, infrastructure, energy including renewables, defense and maritime fields. It includes reliability-based design and risk-informed planning and decision making covering aspects of project lifecycles and portfolios, e.g., sustainment and life expectancy assessment, risk-informed inspection, critical-infrastructure protection, bidding strategies, project execution and operational risk, risk management including risk transfer and risk finance, and liability and exposure analysis.

Professor Ayyub is a distinguished member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and an honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is also a fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), and the Society for Risk Analysis (2017-18 Treasurer), and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He chaired in FY2017-18 the ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD), and in FY2017 the ASCE Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate (CACC). He served on the ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management (CDRM) ExCom, and chaired the ASME Safety Engineering and Risk Division (SERAD). He is currently the founding Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE-ASME J. of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, and on the editorial boards of several journals, and chaired several ASCE and non-ASCE conferences and workshops. Dr. Ayyub completed research and development projects for governmental and private entities, including the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Air Force, Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers, Navy, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Homeland Security, the MD State Highway Administration, ASME, NATO, and several leading insurance and multinational corporations worldwide.

Dr. Ayyub is the recipient of several awards including the 2018 ASCE Alfredo Ang Award of Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure “for technical contributions of national and international significance in risk analysis, risk management and lifecycle economics of civil infrastructure, including resilience and sustainability in a changing climate,” the 2019 ASCE Le Val Lund Award for Practicing Lifeline Risk Reduction, the ASCE Outstanding Research-Oriented Paper in the J. of Water Resources Planning and Management for 1987, the ASCE Edmund Friedman Award in 1989, the ASCE Walter Huber Research Prize in 1997, the ASNE Jimmie Hamilton Award for the best paper in the Naval Engineers J. (NEJ) in 1985, 1992, 2000 and 2003, ASNE Solberg Award for Research in 2016, and the K. S. Fu Award of NAFIPS in 1995. He also received the Depart. of Army Commander’s Award for Public Service in 2007 for leading the development of the risk model for the hurricane protection system of New Orleans. Dr. Ayyub received the 2009 ASME SEARD Award. He served on the State of MD Governor’s Emergency Management Advisory Council 2011-16, and has served on other commissions and boards.

He is the author and co-author of more than 600 publications in journals, conference proceedings, and reports. In addition to 15 edited books, his eight textbooks include the following: Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis for Engineers and Scientists (Chapman & Hall/CRC 2006 with G. Klir), Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics (Chapman & Hall/CRC 2003, 2014), Elicitation of Expert Opinions for Uncertainty and Risks (CRC Press 2002), Probability, Statistics and Reliability for Engineers and Scientists, Third Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC 2011 with R. H. McCuen), and Numerical Methods for Engineers (Prentice Hall 1996 with McCuen, 2nd edition Chapman & Hall/CRC 2016).

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