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Fall 2019 Chancellor's Public Voices Fellow

Best Paper Award in the Homeland Security Track of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference.

Best Paper Award in the Homeland Security Track

Engineering and Infrastructure Specialty Group of the Society for Risk Analysis

Student Merit Award

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)

Institute for Industrial Engineers (IIE)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Selecting indicators for assessing community sustainable resilience

A Bayesian kernel approach to modeling resilience-based network component importance

Static and Dynamic Resource Allocation Models for Recovery of Interdependent Systems: Application to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Dr. Hiba Baroud is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Littlejohn Dean's Faculty Fellow.  Her work explores data analytics and statistical methods to measure and analyze the risk, reliability, and resilience in critical infrastructure systems.  In particular, she has studied data-driven Bayesian methods to predict the occurrence of disruptive events in infrastructure systems and stochastically model the recovery process of the physically disrupted system as well as other interdependent and indirectly impacted systems. She also developed decision analysis tools to assess different preparedness and recovery investment strategies for the protection of civil infrastructures.

Baroud holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. She has a Master of Mathematics from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo where she focused in her research on the application of statistics, particularly time series models, to analyze Dr. Hiba Baroud is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Littlejohn Dean's Faculty Fellow.  Her work explores data analytics and statistical methods to measure and analyze the risk, reliability, and resilience in critical infrastructure systems.  In particular, she has studied data-driven Bayesian methods to predict the occurrence of disruptive events in infrastructure systems and stochastically model the recovery process of the physically disrupted system as well as other interdependent and indirectly impacted systems. She also developed decision analysis tools to assess different preparedness and recovery investment strategies for the protection of civil infrastructures.

Dr. Baroud holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. She has a Master of Mathematics from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo where she focused in her research on the application of statistics, particularly time series models, to analyze financial data. Prior to that, she obtained her B.S. in Actuarial Science from Notre Dame University, Lebanon.

Climate Change

Flood Mitigation

Natural Disasters

Resilience Modeling

Interdependent Systems Data Analytics

Critical Infrastructure Modeling

Risk Analysis

Risk-informed decision analysis

Statistical Modeling

Climate and Climate Change

Disaster Recovery

Flooding 

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Dams in distress: Partial failure in Minnesota offers a nationwide warning

How the Midwest Floods Nearly Took Out a Century-Old Dam

Nigeria was already facing a food crisis – then flooding hit

Nigeria's flooding spreads to the Delta, upending lives and livelihoods

Three Ways to Build Back Smarter After Hurricane Ian

How Government Decisions Left Tennessee Exposed to Deadly Flooding

In aftermath of devastating floods, Germans wonder what more could have been done

More dams will collapse as aging infrastructure can’t keep up with climate change

‘Everything is gone’: Japan left reeling from worst storm in decades

Japan Questions Flooding Defenses After Severe Weekend Typhoon

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Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Hiba Baroud, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, is available for commentary on recent extreme weather events, including hurricanes, tropical storms and flooding.

Baroud is an expert on infrastructure and climate change as they pertain to extreme weather events. She can speak to the potential dangers of the destruction and the cleanup decisions affected areas must make, including those that can help prepare for the future. Topics she can discuss include:
How weathers and disasters are becoming more frequent and intense, therefore costing us more. Why cities must prepare before extreme weather hits, making future-based predictions and not just relying on historical data to understand potential concerns. With that, cities must also focus on restoration after an event happens, rather than prevention Additional dangers to residents' lives to be considered once the weather has passed - such as a lack of food and water, lack of power and road infrastructure issues 

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