Roger Paredes, PhD candidate

Bowen Fu, PhD candidate

Hesam Talebiyan, PhD candidate

Kyle Shepherd, PhD student

Jayant Patil, PhD student

Xiangnan Zhou, PhD student

No current undergraduate students

Birnur Guven, Ph.D

Birnur Guven is a research scientist at Houston Advanced research Center since October 2009; she is also a research fellow at Rice University since August 2010. She received her B.S. in Mathematics from Bogazici University in Turkey and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Rice University.
Research: Urban air toxics and hurricane-induced hazard and risk analysis.

Min Ouyang, Ph.D

Min Ouyang is a research fellow at Rice University since November 2009. He received his B.S. in Automation Control from Wuhan University of Science and Technology in China, his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Research: Reliability and topology based design of infrastructure interfaces; smart grid resilience

Alireza Yazdani, Ph.D

Alireza Yazdani is a Research Associate at Rice University since September 2011. He received his BSc and MSc in Mathematics from Tehran Polytechnic (Iran) and PhD from Loughborough University (UK). Prior to joining Rice, he worked as a UK water industry consultant and Research Fellow at Cranfield Water Science Institute.
Research: Integrated analysis of topology, reliability, efficiency and water quality in Water Distribution Networks.

Andres Gonzalez

Completed: Degree: M.Sc. Operations Research, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia

Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Research: Restoration and Resilience Optimization of Interdependent Infrastructure Networks

Akwasi F. Mensah

Completed: Degree: M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Degree Sought: Ph.D.

Anticipated Graduation Date: December 2014
Research: Reliability and Risk Assessment of Energy Structures and Systems

Xing Min

Completed: Degree: M.S. Shanghai University

Degree Sought: Ph.D.

Anticipated Graduation Date: May 2012
Research: Reliability and topology based design of infrastructure interfaces

Keivan Rokneddin

Completed: Degree: M.S. Iran University of Science and Technology

Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Research: Topological bounds and hierarchical clustering for network reliability assessment

Zhenghua Wang (Co-Advised with J. Padgett)

Completed: Degree: M.S. Tongji University

Degree Sought: Ph.D.

Anticipated Graduation Date: May 2014
Research: Soil-foundation-structure interaction modeling for probabilistic analysis of bridges

Benjamin Berryhill

Degree Sought: B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering

Benjamin is researching the topological characterization of power transmission systems across the United States.

Bayram Aygun

Completed: Degree: M.S., Rice University

Bayram investigated the effects of soil liquefaction on highway bridges and created probabilistic fragility curves for a bridge-soil-foundation model typical of South Carolina.

Stephanie Herkes and Leslie Miller

Completed: Degree: B.S. Mechanical Engineering

Stephanie and Leslie research hurricane preparation, who prepares and why, by preforming statistical analyses of a survey taken after Hurricane Ike. In addition, they look at economic risk behavior theory to develop models for how and why people prepare.

Isaac Hernandez-Fajardo

Completed: Degree: Ph.D.
Research: Computational and empirical modeling of lifeline systems interdependence propagation

Josh Rutenberg

Completed: Degree: B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, B.A. Policy Studies

Josh is researching time series analysis of coupled utility system performance.

Gesara Satumtira

Completed: Degree: B.S., Rice University

Gesara's work resulted on a book chapter critically reviewing interdependent infrastructure systems research.

James Winkler

Completed: Degree: B.S., Rice University

James developed a fragility-based model of power transmission system outages from hurricane events.

Current Position: Ph.D. student at Texas A&M

Jason Wu

Completed: Degree: B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jason is researching the validation of lifeline interdependence failure propogation models using the 2010 Chile earthquake.