Group Members
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Current Graduate Students | |
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Roger Paredes, PhD candidate |
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Bowen Fu, PhD candidate |
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Hesam Talebiyan, PhD candidate |
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Kyle Shepherd, PhD student |
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Jayant Patil, PhD student |
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Xiangnan Zhou, PhD student |
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No current undergraduate students |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Andres Gonzalez Completed: Degree: M.Sc. Operations Research, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia Degree Sought: Ph.D. |
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Akwasi F. Mensah Completed: Degree: M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Degree Sought: Ph.D. Anticipated Graduation Date: December 2014 |
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Xing Min Completed: Degree: M.S. Shanghai University Degree Sought: Ph.D. Anticipated Graduation Date: May 2012 |
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Keivan Rokneddin Completed: Degree: M.S. Iran University of Science and Technology Degree Sought: Ph.D. |
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Zhenghua Wang (Co-Advised with J. Padgett) Completed: Degree: M.S. Tongji University Degree Sought: Ph.D. Anticipated Graduation Date: May 2014 |
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Benjamin Berryhill Degree Sought: B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering Benjamin is researching the topological characterization of power transmission systems across the United States. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Isaac Hernandez-Fajardo Completed: Degree: Ph.D. |
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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. |
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Gesara Satumtira Completed: Degree: B.S., Rice University Gesara's work resulted on a book chapter critically reviewing interdependent infrastructure systems research. |
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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 |
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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. |