A research group co-led by Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice University, has received a 2020 best paper award from the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA).

In recent years, Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice University, has teamed up with statisticians, physicists and computer scientists to address traditional and emerging engineering challenges with a novel tool: quantum computing

Five faculty members in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University have been promoted to full professor, effective July 1.

Promoted from the rank of associate professor are:
Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jamie Padgett, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Junghae Suh, Bioengineering
Ashok Veeraraghavan, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rafael Verduzco, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

NIST has approved a second $20 million, five-year grant for Rice and a consortium of other universities to support the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning. Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio has joined Jamie Padgett who serves on the center’s leadership team. Over the next five years, Padgett, Dueñas-Osorio and other center researchers will work in a cooperative agreement with NIST to advance resilience models for infrastructure and interdependent socio-economic systems, as well as test the modeling framework in communities.

Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at Rice University, has co-authored scholarly articles with statisticians, physicists and computer scientists devoted to topics as various as power grid failure, urban water security and the likelihood of homes in Houston being damaged by high winds or flooding during a hurricane.

In recognition of his research, Dueñas-Osorio was the recipient of the 2017 IASSAR Early Achievement Research Award, given every four years by the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability.

Two Rice University research teams have won multiyear grants for basic research through the Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Program.