Bilal M. Ayyub

Dr. Ayyub is a Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Director of its Center for Technology and Systems Management. He is a Visiting Professor, Imperial College London, UK; Senior Economist, Applied Economics Office, NIST, Department of Commerce, USA; Co-Director of the Tongji University International Joint Research Center for Resilient Infrastructure, (chair professor 2016-18), Shanghai, China; Academician of The Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia; Science Advisory Board member, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA; and National Academies Board on Environmental Change and Society member, USA. He was a visiting fellow in National Security Analysis at the Applied Physics Laboratory, JHU, 2015-16. He completed his doctorate degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1983 and BSCE from Kuwait University in 1980, and his primary areas of research are in risk analysis in engineering and economics. He co-authored about 700 publications including 5 textbooks in several editions, 2 creative-work books and 15 edited books, and is the founding editor-in-chief of the ASCE-ASME Journal on Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems. Dr. Ayyub is the recipient of several awards, most notably the 2024 ASCE OPAL Award for leadership in education, 2018 ASCE Alfredo Ang Award on risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure, 2019 ASCE President Medal for several efforts to bring adaptive design to the profession to help address a changing climate, 2019 ASCE Le Val Lund Award for risk reduction of lifeline-networked systems, 2018 ENR Newsmaker award for first formal guidance when designing infrastructure to be more resilient to weather extremes, and 2016 ASNE Solberg Award for significant engineering research and development in ship survivability.