Risk & Resilient Systems
Faculty in Duke’s Risk & Resilient Systems group focus on finding new and better ways to model, estimate and quantify the dynamics, uncertainty and risks prevalent in diverse engineered and natural systems—with the ultimate goals of reducing risk, informing decisions and developing more resilient systems.
Our research methods include dynamic systems analysis, numerical modeling, uncertainty quantification and parallel computing. Our work has applications in diverse areas, such as environmental and population health; energy and climate systems; insurance risk assessment and financial engineering; and hazard mitigation and resilient infrastructure.
Research Areas
- Bayesian decision theory and environmental risk assessment
- Modeling, identification, and control for natural hazard mitigation
- Uncertainty quantification in computational mechanics
- Data analytics and numerical modeling
- System dynamics, nonlinear dynamics and optimization
- Engineering economics
- Resilience engineering and sustainability
Major Centers & Initiatives
Related Study Opportunities
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- Both offer a study track in Systems, Risk & Decision
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- Energy & Climate Systems
- Environment & Population Health
- Financial Risk
- Materials & Structures
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- Offers a concentration in Systems Engineering & Optimization
Associated Faculty
Wilkins Aquino
Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Mark Edward Borsuk
James L. and Elizabeth M. Vincent Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
David Carlson
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jeseth Delgado Vela
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Henri P. Gavin
W.H. Gardner Jr. Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor in the Department of CEE
Johann Guilleminot
Paul Ruffin Scarborough Associate Professor of Engineering
Lisa L Satterwhite
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Guglielmo Scovazzi
Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Daniel Vallero
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Wiesner
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Marta Zaniolo
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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