Biography

Bilal M. Ayyub, PE, PhD, Dist.M.ASCE, Hon.M.ASME, F.SNAME, F.SRA, F.SEI

Professor and Director, Center for Technology and Systems Management, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA, ba@umd.edu, http://www.ctsm.umd.edu; Academician of the Georgian National Academy of Science, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Dr. Ayyub is also a Visiting Professor at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK; Senior Economist at the Applied Economics Office of National Institute of Standards and Technology (2023-2024); and Co-Director, International Joint Research Center for Resilient Infrastructure, Tongji University, China. He is an affiliate of the Center for Risk and Reliability; Disaster Resilience Center; Maryland Robotics Center; Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM); Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Program; and Institute of Systems Engineering. He was a visiting fellow at the National Security Analysis Department of the Applied Physics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University (2015-16). He was a chair professor at Tongji University (2016-18). He received the ASEE Fellowships ONR-funded for sabbatical leaves at U. S. Navy (USN) from 1993, 2000 and 2007. He is a distinguished member of ASCE and an honorary member of ASME. He is also a fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), and the Society for Risk Analysis (2017-18 Treasurer), and a senior member of IEEE. He serves on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Science Advisory Board and served on the National Academies Board of Environmental Change and Society, and the Roundtable on Macroeconomics and Climate related Risks and Opportunities. Dr. Ayyub completed his PhD and MSCE degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1983 and 1981, respectively, and BSCE from Kuwait University in 1980.

Dr. Ayyub’s main research interests and work are in probabilistic risk analysis, resilience, sustainability, uncertainty and decision analysis, applied to civil, infrastructure, energy including renewables, defense and maritime fields, climate/hazard-resilient infrastructure, natural infrastructure, environmental/ecological concerns, risk finance, and conflict/system complexity analytics.

Dr. Ayyub completed research and development projects for governmental and private entities including NSF, DOE, DOI, DOD, DOT, NIST, DHS, and leading insurance and multinational corporations worldwide including Chevron, United Technology, Ford, Bechtel, Hartford, Hyundai, etc. Dr. Ayyub is the recipient of several awards, including the 2025 Penn State Harleman Distinguished Lecture, the 2024 ASCE OPAL Award for lifetime accomplishments in academia, the 2024 ASCE G. Brook Earnest Technical Lecture Award, the 2018 ASCE Alfredo Ang Award on risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure, 2019 ASCE President Medal for many efforts to bring adaptive design to the profession to help address a changing climate, 2019 ASCE Le Val Lund Award for contributions to resilience enhancement and risk reduction for lifeline-networked systems through measurement science and associated economics toward informing policy and decision-making practices, 2018 ENR Newsmaker award for passionate effort to give engineers their first formal guidance when designing infrastructure to be more resilient to weather extremes, and 2016 ASNE Solberg Award significant engineering research and development accomplishments in the field of ship survivability. He is the author and co-author of more than 700 publications, and the founding editor-in-chief of the ASCE-ASME Journal on Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems. In addition to 15 edited books including Thoughts and Conversations of Buildings and Other Structures (CreateSpace 2020), his textbooks include the following (http://amzn.to/zs03ma): Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis for Engineers and Scientists (Chapman & Hall/CRC 2006 with G. Klir), Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics (Chapman & Hall/CRC 2003, 2014), Elicitation of Expert Opinions for Uncertainty and Risks (CRC Press 2002), Probability, Statistics and Reliability for Engineers and Scientists, Fourth Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC 2025 with McCuen), and Numerical Methods for Engineers (Prentice Hall 1996 with McCuen, 2nd (2016) and 3rd (2025) edition Chapman & Hall/CRC).