Seminar 04/01- Dr. Negin Alemazkoor

 ABSTRACT

Optimal management of critical infrastructure systems directly affects welfare of the society.
Achieving optimal management requires fast, reliable and efficient analysis of the system.
However, such analysis is extremely challenging due to the large size of infrastructure systems
and various inherent sources of uncertainty. This talk focuses on how advances in computing and sensing technologies can facilitate analysis and management of large infrastructure systems. In particular, I present some of the computational tools that I have recently developed that a) accelerate computations for probabilistic system analysis and uncertainty quantification; b) accurately capture the changes in demand trend and/or system topology in an on-line fashion and update the prediction models accordingly; and c) efficiently collect system data to alleviate the cost of data storage and communication. I also present some applications of these computational tools in critical infrastructure systems, such as transportation and power systems, and discuss the computational cost savings and accuracy improvements.

BIO

Negin Alemazkoor is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia in the Department of
Engineering systems and Environment. She received her PhD in Civil Engineering with a minor
in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a B.S. in Civil
Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and a M.S. in Transportation Engineering from
Texas A&M University. Dr. Alemazkoor’s current research mainly focuses on developing computational tools for analysis of smart and resilient infrastructure systems with an emphasis on power and transportation systems. Dr. Alemazkoor has been invited to attend the Rising Stars in Computational and Data Science workshop hosted by University of Texas at Austin and Sandia National Laboratory in 2019 and selected as one of the 20 female graduate students and postdocs invited to MIT’s 2017 CEE Rising Stars workshop. Dr. Alemazkoor has also been recognized for her teaching excellence for four semesters at the University of Illinois.

Zoom Link for Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/92908687098