Ziran Wang

Roger Paredes

Completed Degree: Ph.D.

Bowen Fu

Completed Degree: Ph.D.

Hesam Talebiyan

Completed Degree: Ph.D.

Xiangnan Zhou

Completed Degree: Ph.D.

Birnur Guven, Ph.D

Birnur Guven was 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 was 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 was a Research Associate at Rice University. 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 Degrees:

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

Ph.D. Rice University

Research: Restoration and Resilience Optimization of Interdependent Infrastructure Networks

Akwasi F. Mensah

Completed Degrees:

M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Ph.D. Rice University

Research: Reliability and Risk Assessment of Energy Structures and Systems

Xing Min

Completed Degrees:

M.S. Shanghai University

Research: Reliability and topology based design of infrastructure interfaces

Keivan Rokneddin

Completed Degrees:

M.S. Iran University of Science and Technology

Ph.D. Rice University

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

Zhenghua Wang (Co-Advised with J. Padgett)

Completed Degrees:

M.S. Tongji University

Ph.D. Rice University

Research: Soil-foundation-structure interaction modeling for probabilistic analysis of bridges

Benjamin Berryhill

Completed Degree: 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 propagation models using the 2010 Chile earthquake.