Leading and collaborating
Faculty
Leadership Team
Lauren Gardner
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of Civil and Systems Engineering
CSSE Director
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Dr. Lauren Gardner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She leads interdisciplinary research efforts on the topic of bio-secure mobility, which utilizes network optimization and mathematical modeling to improve our understanding of disease spreading patterns and risk as a function of transportation systems, land use, climate and population demographics. She is also a member of the Infectious Disease Dynamics (IDD) Group in Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to joining JHU she was a faculty member at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney. She is a leading member of the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), and Visiting Scientist at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), serving as the transport lead on the DiNeMo Project. [Google Scholar]
Research Interests
- Bio-secure mobility
- Transport systems
- Infectious disease modeling
- Network analysis
Kimia Ghobadi
John C. Malone Assistant Professor of Civil and systems Engineering
CSSE Associate Director
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Kimia Ghobadi is a John C. Malone Assistant Professor of Civil and Systems Engineering and Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare at the Whiting School of Engineering. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management, and received her PhD in Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. She obtained her Bachelor in Mathematics at Sharif University and her Masters’ in Mathematics and Computational Engineering and Science at McMaster University. Kimia is a recipient of INFORMS Judith Liebman award and Canada’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s graduate and postdoctoral scholarships. [Google Scholar]
Research Interests
- Inverse optimization
- Mathematical Modeling
- Multi-objective optimization
- Online and heuristic algorithms
- Robust optimization
- Healthcare Operations
- Medical Decision-making
- Public Health
Faculty Members
Takeru Igusa
Professor of Civil and systems Engineering
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Tak Igusa is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering where he has been a faculty member since 1999. While his initial research was focused on systems analysis of civil and mechanical structures, during the past 10 years he has pursued collaborations throughout Johns Hopkins to explore wider applications of systems methods. [Google Scholar]
Research Interests
- System Dynamic Modeling
- Agent Based Modeling
- Modeling Frameworks for Predicting the Onset of Chronic Disorders
- Systems Modeling of the Causes of Obesity and Non-communicable Diseases
- Community Resilience
- Structural Dynamics
- Acoustics
Gregory Falco
Assistant Professor of Civil and Systems Engineering
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Gregory Falco is an assistant research professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering. In fall 2021, Falco will become an assistant professor in that department and in the Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), a joint Whiting School of Engineering and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory research institute. He is also a member of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
Falco is a cyber civil engineer who designs, builds, and investigates critical infrastructure’s digital layer. For a decade, he has been at the forefront of smart city design, development, and deployment in industry and academia. His research uncovers the security, safety, and trust risks of AI-enabled mission systems. Falco invents and holds patents for security and resilience-enabling technology for terrestrial and space autonomous and control systems. He applies his research to the energy, space, public safety, transportation, and insurance sectors. [more…]
Sauleh Siddiqui
Assistant Professor of Civil and Systems Engineering
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Sauleh Siddiqui is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Systems Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the Whiting School of Engineering, where he leads the Mathematical Optimization for Decisions Lab (MODL). He is a Research Fellow at DIW Berlin and Associate Editor for the journal Optimization and Engineering. He received an A.B. in Mathematics and Public Policy from Franklin & Marshall College and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation from the University of Maryland. [CV, Google Scholar, Research Gate]
Research Interests
- Natural Gas and Crude Oil Infrastructure and Markets
- Electricity Markets
- US Biofuel Policy
- Patient Flow in Hospitals
- Clinical Trials System
- Global Bicycling
- Global Vaccination
- Bilevel Optimization
- Multiobjective Optimization
- Integer Optimization and Equilibrium
Affiliate Faculty
Somnath Ghosh
Michael G. Callas Chair Professor of Civil and systems Engineering
Lori Graham-Brady
Department Chair Professor of Civil AND SYSTEMS Engineering
James K. Guest
Associate Professor of Civil AND SYSTEMS Engineering
Benjamin Schafer
Professor of Civil AND SYSTEMS Engineering
Michael D. Shields
Assistant Professor of Civil AND SYSTEMS Engineering