C2M2 would like to thank James H. Lambert, Director, Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems Site Director, NSF I/UCRC Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust, University of Virginia, for joining us as a part of our C2M2 Distinguished Speaker Series, August 12, 2020.
Seminar Title
Resilience of Advanced Logistics Systems with Emergent and Future Conditions
Seminar Abstract
This talk explores how risk and resilience analysis of engineering systems address disruptive combinations of emergent and future conditions, with an emphasis on the influence of human values to priorities for advanced logistics systems. The conditions span technologies, regulations, economics, markets, resources, population behaviors, workforce behaviors, environments, missions, organizations, health, etc. The conditions influence priorities across R&D investments, time horizons, locations, policies, projects, assets, products, services, etc. The approach involves multidisciplinary expertise from engineering, law, business, ethics, cybersecurity, survey research, etc. The methods include scenario-based preferences, multicriteria optimization, corridor and network trace analysis, human factors and ergonomics, environmental and social justice and equity, mathematical modeling and simulation, and others. Several applications are described, including alternative-energy vehicles; charging of fleet electric vehicles; risk registers and other human-machine interface technologies; airport runway safety; and maritime commerce with autonomous vehicles.
Bio
Professor Lambert’s interests are engineering systems and risk analysis, with application to (i) advanced mobile grid services and network of chargers of fleet electric vehicles, (ii) enterprise resilience of national wireless broadband network in public safety, (iii) simulation of operations and strategic priorities of maritime container ports, (iv) logistics and industrial supply chains for aviation biofuels, (v) risk management of economic development to infrastructure corridors, (vi) population behaviors and community resilience in radiological and other disasters, (vii) transportation strategic plans influenced by climate combining with emergent and future conditions, (viii) priority setting for airports with risk of runway incursions, and (ix) security of critical infrastructure systems related to embedded hardware devices. He is a Professor of Engineering Systems and Environment (Program in Systems Engineering, Program in Civil Engineering), Director of the Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, and Member of the Technical Advisory Council of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems, each at the University of Virginia. He is Chair of the Fifth World Congress on Risk (Cape Town, South Africa, 2019), a Past President (2015-2016) of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), and Chair of the SRA Annual Meeting with over 800 registered participants (Washington DC, 2015). He is a Fellow of the IEEE (F.IEEE), Fellow of the ASCE (F.ASCE), Fellow of the SRA (F.SRA), Diplomate (D.WRE) of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the International Council on Systems Engineering, and licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal Environment Systems & Decisions. He is Area Editor of the Wiley journal Risk Analysis. He is Associate Editor of the ASCE/ASME Journal of Risk & Uncertainty in Engineering Systems. His publications appear in the above journals and Wiley journal Risk Analysis, Elsevier journal Reliability Engineering and System Safety, ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Military Operations Research Society Journal, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Elsevier journal Accident Analysis and Prevention, et al. He received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia, and a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering with a Certificate in Engineering Physics at Princeton University.
